5.6% of Americans are openly gay, lesbian or bi.

1.93 is average number of children a family will have currently.
That puts the odds of a family having a kid who identifies as gay, lesbian or bi at 10.8%.

6 is the average number of first cousins kids will have.
A 33% chance at least one of them will be LGBT.

8-9 is the number of close friends kids have according to surveys.
A 40% chance at least one will be LGBT.

850 is the number of students in the average US high school.
99.34% is the chance at least one person in the school is gay. Also important to know that it’s very likely the number of LGBT students will be over 40 for the average high school.

The reason for writing this is the new Pixar movie Lightyear is out and is the first Pixar movie to have a lesbian kiss scene.

This has caused a boycott on the movie, where it’s believed it can cost the film millions in the US and it has even been banned in most of the Middle East.

Many people online are supporting this, but sadly there are a frightening number of people saying they’d not let kids see the movie.

Which I find really depressing and feel they are doing a massive disservice to their kids and the kids around them.

The odds of a family having a kid who is LGBT is almost 11%.
The odds of an extended family having a kid who is LGBT is nearly 50%.
The odds of a school having a kid who is gay is basically a statistical guarantee.

The most common theme is avoiding saying they are homophobic by claiming they don’t want their kids exposed to sexuality.

Which to be clear, this is just a kiss.

To compare, some kiss scenes in other Pixar movies just off the top of my head.

Toy Story
Bo Peep kisses Woody

Up
The older couple had a kiss scene in the flashbacks.

Ratatouille
Kiss scene between the humans who were chefs.

Incredibles
Kiss scenes there. Hell, there’s a scene Mr & Mrs Incredible pinch each other’s asses and I never saw a complaint over that.

Haven’t really seen any new Pixar movies after 2012, but I’m sure they are there.

Also, if people just want to go through popular non Pixar kids movies, Shrek, Beauty & The Beast and hundreds of animated films have them.

This has nothing to do with sexualization, but everything to do with just being bigoted.

Also, writing this, I’m not always the biggest guy on putting LGBT characters into stories for the idea of versus the execution.

There was a case last year where Paramount+ rebooted the Rugrats and made Phil & Lil’s mom gay. I felt it was a dumb choice and offensive to masculine women who are straight.

I’m for lack of a better word not a very “woke” person, but I find these parents denying their kids a Pixar movie over a kiss scene doing them a disservice.

It’s just denying them the ability to see something as normal, which they’ll see in their lives if not themselves.