After complaining about LGBTQ illustration in films like Lightyear, Snoop Dogg is providing one thing of an apology.
“I used to be simply caught off guard and had no reply for my grandsons,” Snoop wrote in a current Instagram remark, after saying he was upset after same-sex characters in Lightyear spurred questions from his grandson. “All my homosexual buddies [know] what’s up. They been calling me with love. My dangerous for not understanding the solutions for a 6-year-old. Train me how you can be taught. I’m not excellent.”
The rapper sparked outrage after making the feedback in an It’s Giving podcast episode shared on-line on August 20. In that episode, he recalled taking his grandson to see Lightyear and fielding his questions on two characters in a same-sex relationship.
“My grandson, in the course of the film, is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a child with a lady? She is a lady!’”
Snoop’s response? “Oh, s***. I didn’t are available for this s***,” he mentioned on the podcast. “I simply got here to observe the g**rattling film.”
However Snoop mentioned his grandson didn’t relent, asking, “They simply mentioned she and he or she had a child. They each girls. How does she have a child?”
That second made Snoop “scared to go to the films,” he mentioned. “Y’all throwing me in the course of s*** that I don’t have a solution for,” he mentioned.
His feedback have been later edited out of the total podcast episode — “mistakenly,” in response to a YouTube remark from the It’s Giving channel — and uploaded as a YouTube brief days later.
Snoop’s feedback went viral, and the backlash was swift. “What a horrible tackle the lesbian couple,” one YouTube commenter wrote. “It’s 2025, [and] y’all nonetheless being homophobic?”
One other commenter wrote, “You’re telling me that as a 50-plus-year-old man, you continue to don’t know how you can discuss to a child about same-sex mother and father? Why is that such a troublesome idea to know?”
Some folks even known as for the Grammy-nominated artist to be dropped as a performer from Australia’s AFL Grand Ultimate soccer match, in response to 9 Information Australia.
Snoop’s feedback doubtless opened previous wounds for LGBTQ Disney workers and moviegoers, who noticed a same-sex kiss between Uzo Aduba’s character and her associate edited out after which reinstated after Disney workers protested the corporate’s stance on LGBTQ points, as Selection reported.
Lauren Gunderson, a author who’s credited for contributing “extra screenplay materials” for Lightyear, responded to Snoop’s feedback in a Threads publish final week.
“As we wrote early variations of what grew to become Lightyear, a key character wanted a associate, and it was so pure to jot down ‘she’ as a substitute of ‘he,’” she wrote. “As small as that element is within the movie, I knew the representational impact it may have. Small line, massive deal. I used to be elated that they stored it. I’m pleased with it. To infinity. Love is love.”
In a follow-up publish, Gunderson wrote, “I had little or no to do with the ultimate script. However I used to be proud to see a cheerful queer couple (even for a number of seconds) onscreen. I do know they obtained a whole lot of s*** for this inclusion, however stuff like this issues as a result of stunning love like this exists. It’s not fiction. What isfiction is Zurg and lightspeed area journey and murderous aliens and a speaking robotic cat (lengthy dwell Sox).”