Lena Waithe to voice Pixar’s first out-gay character

Writer/actress Lena Waithe has scored a history-making role: that of the first out-gay character in a Pixar film.

Waithe, known for her role in the series Master of None, and for creating the popular drama The Chi, will lend her voice to the character Officer Spector, a purple unicorn police officer in the new film Onward.

Slate reports that, at one point in the film, Spector tells another character “My girlfriend’s daughter got me pulling my hair out.” The reference may seem subtle, but it still qualifies as the first explicit reference to an LGBTQ character in a Pixar film. Audiences have speculated over the sexual orientation of Pixar characters in the past:

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