Lightyear would feature a blink-and-you’d-miss it gay kiss, lamenting that the Disney animation house had gone “woke.”But, strangely, they were silent back in 2015 when the studio introduced its first proper LGBTQ+ character: The sexy, mustachioed San Francisco daddy from Inside Out!Okay, we’re joking… a little.
The truth is, the Oscar-winning movie—about the anthropomorphized emotions inside a young girl named Riley’s mind—gave us no indication that the character in question was queer.
Credited simply as “Riley’s Dad” (and voiced by IRL daddy Kyle MacLachlan), all we knew about him was that he was a loving, supportive father and in a relationship with “Riley’s Mom.”Im surprised riley’s dad isn’t a trend yet, he’s a lowkey hot dilf#insideout #dilf #daddy pic.twitter.com/uNtx2VQUlsStill, audiences couldn’t get over the tingly feelings this hot animated man gave them, and gay audiences in particular began to champion “Riley’s Dad” as one of our own.
Who’s to say Riley’s parents aren’t in an open marriage? Who’s to say her dad’s not donning his best leather harness for Folsom Street Fair every year?Disney’s most recent releases prove things are finally changing.In any event.