Snoop Dogg took his mind off his money and his money off his mind when the rapper decided to criticize children’s movies for including LGBTQ+ characters.
Appearing on the It’s Giving podcast on Aug. 20, Snoop said that he was thrown off when he took his grandson to see the 2022 film Lightyear in theaters, and found out that the female character Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) was in a same-sex marriage and had children with her wife, Kiko.
“Why my grandson in the middle of the movie like, ‘Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman? She a woman,’” Snoop recalled during his interview. “I didn’t come here for this s–t, I just came to watch the goddamn movie.”
Lightyear featured a short scene in which it was revealed that Alisha was queer and in a relationship with a woman, and the two share a kiss. For that scene alone, the film was banned in multiple countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The scene also caused a wave of backlash from right-wing political figures in the U.S. who claimed that Disney was specifically “pushing” a pro-LGBTQ+ agenda.
In his interview, Snoop presented a common conservative argument against showing same-sex relationships in kids movies, stating that he didn’t want to have to explain queerness to his grandson. “So it’s like, f–k me, I’m scared to go to the movies now. Like, y’all throwing me in the middle of s–t that I don’t have an answer for,” Snoop said. “It threw me for a loop. We have to show that at this age? Like, they’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”
Back in 2022, Disney briefly acquiesced to the backlash from people making arguments similar to Snoop’s when they cut the kiss scene from the film. However, after a coalition of past and present LGBTQ+ employees and allies urged the studio not to censor “overtly gay affection” in the film as they claimed they did in the past, Disney reinstated the scene.
Even Lightyear‘s lead actor Chris Evans spoke out in support of the scene in a 2022 interview, stating that he was “frustrated” that the kiss was a point of debate and controversy. “The goal is that we can get to a point where it is the norm, and that this doesn’t have to be some uncharted waters, that eventually this is just the way it is,” Evans said. “The goal is to look back on this time and just be shocked that it took us this long to get there.”
Despite Snoop’s claim that children’s films are “putting [queerness] everywhere,” a report published by GLAAD in June 2025 showed that only two children’s movies released in 2024 featured LGBTQ+ representation, marking a 62% decrease in queer representation in kids’ films. According to that same report, in both those films, the queer characters were non-major roles who appeared on screen for less than one minute in each film.
