Pixar's Film 'Onward' Banned in Several Countries Over Gay Couple

In some countries, the heroine's lines have been changed.

Four Middle Eastern countries have simultaneously banned the screening of Pixar's new animated film Onward. It will not be shown in cinemas in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. This is reported by BBC.

At the same time, in Egypt, Bahrain and Lebanon, the film was allowed for release without any problems. The reason for the ban is that the film features a character named Specter, who works as a police officer and is raising her child together with another woman.

In one scene she says: "Being parents is not easy... My girlfriend's daughter is tearing me apart." In some dubbed versions of the film, the word "girlfriend" was changed to "partner".

Specter became the first character in films from the Disney-Pixar studio who is openly LGBT. Actress Lena Waithe, who voiced Specter in the English-language version of Onward, said that the word "girlfriend" was not in the original script — it was the actress's own idea, which came up spontaneously during the recording.

Earlier, Disney and Pixar introduced their first animated lesbian character in Onward. She is a cyclops girl named Specter who works as a police officer.