American rapper Snoop Dogg has said he is “scared to go to the movies” because of what he describes as the growing presence of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) representation in children’s films.
The 53-year-old performer recalled taking his grandson to see Pixar’s 2022 release Lightyear and being unsettled by a sequence in which one of the main characters is shown in a same-sex relationship.
“What you see is what you see, and they’re putting it everywhere,” Snoop said on the It’s Giving podcast.
“They’re like, ‘She had a baby — with another woman.’ Well, my grandson, in the middle of the movie is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!’”
Snoop said he thought at the time, “‘Oh sh–, I didn’t come in for this sh–. I just came to watch the goddamn movie.’”
The rapper added that his grandson kept asking questions: “‘They just said, she and she had a baby — they’re both women. How does she have a baby?’”
Reflecting on the encounter, Snoop continued, “It f—– me up. I’m like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of sh– that I don’t have an answer for.”
“It threw me for a loop. I’m like, ‘What part of the movie was this?” he added.
“These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer,” he said.
Lightyear, a spin-off from the Toy Story franchise, follows the backstory of Buzz Lightyear, voiced by Chris Evans.
The film features Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) in a relationship with her partner Kiko, with a montage showing them getting married and raising a child. The same-sex kiss scene initially faced removal but was reinstated following protests by Pixar staff.
Some LGBTQ+ supporters have criticised the artist, saying he should be dropped as the headline act at the upcoming Australian Football League Grand Final.
Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., has previously been criticised for remarks considered homophobic and transphobic, including describing Caitlyn Jenner as a “science project” and using an anti-gay epithet in a 2014 social media post.
