It's strange to be anxious during a kids' movie, but the butterflies fluttered during a recent screening of Onward — the first Disney/Pixar movie to introduce an unambiguous LGBTQ character.
Considering the years of baggage I carry when it comes to hearing movie audiences hoot, holler, gag, and explode in peels of mocking laughter when "gay stuff" comes up, maybe the tension was not so odd.The nerves did turn out to be misplaced.