Standard rapper and TV character Snoop Dogg has been underneath fireplace during the last week after feedback he made about LGBTQ+ illustration in films went viral. The well-known rapper, recognized for his hit “Drop It Like It is Sizzling,” has sparked appreciable controversy, prompting spirited responses from followers and even a author from the “Lightyear” film, about which he was ranting.

On Threads, a well-liked spinoff of Instagram, Lauren Gunderson, who acquired a screenplay materials credit score on the 2022 Disney movie, responded to Snoop’s surprising feedback in regards to the film that includes a homosexual couple.

“He sucks,” she wrote on-line. However that is not all Gunderson needed to say in regards to the 53-year-old, who’s made headlines prior to now over previous problematic conduct.

In one other publish, the Pixar author revealed how “bummed” she was to listen to Snoop’s ideas in regards to the film. “Hopefully he joins the facet of Love,” she completed.

In keeping with a earlier report from The Blast, Snoop Dogg appeared on the “It is Giving” podcast and slammed film and TV creators for together with an excessive amount of queer illustration in kids’s merchandise.

“They’re placing it in all places! My grandson, in the course of the film, is like, ‘Papa Snoop, how [does] she have a child with a girl?’” Snoop Dogg stated. “I am like, scared to go to the films. Y’all throwing me in the course of sh-t that I haven’t got a solution for.”

Disney’s “Lightyear,” that includes a various vary of characters from numerous backgrounds, is not a lot of a shock, contemplating Karey Burke, president of Disney’s Common Leisure Content material in 2022, said that her plans for the corporate included increasing its content material to turn out to be extra inclusive.

“I’m right here as a mom of two queer kids, truly,” Burke beforehand stated throughout a company-wide name. “One transgender little one and one pansexual little one, and likewise as a frontrunner.”

Burke went on to elucidate how she was surprised to be taught solely a “handful” of Disney’s lead characters had been queer.

“And I went, ‘What? That may’t be true,’” Burke stated. “And I noticed it truly is true. Now we have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our tales and but we don’t have sufficient leads and narratives by which homosexual characters simply get to be characters and never must be about homosexual tales.”

Amid this, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a brand new invoice into legislation that might ban Florida lecturers from discussing LGBTQ+ subjects, together with sexual orientation or gender id, with college students until they’re within the fourth grade or greater.

Disney fought again towards the invoice, issuing an announcement that condemned the laws for trying to divide the neighborhood.

“Our aim as an organization is for this legislation to be repealed by the legislature or struck down within the courts, and we stay dedicated to supporting the nationwide and state organizations working to attain that,” a Disney spokesperson stated.