Snoop Dogg criticizes LGBTQ+ representation in children’s films: ‘They’re putting it everywhere’

Snoop Dogg says he’s “scared to go to the movies” due to what he perceives to be an increase in LGBTQ+ representation in children’s films.

“What you see is what you see, and they’re putting it everywhere,” he said on a recent episode of the It’s Giving podcast.

The rapper and pop culture personality described taking his grandson to see 2022’s Lightyear, and being shocked to discover that one of the animated film’s protagonists has two mothers.

Snoop recalled thinking, “‘Oh sh–, I didn’t come in for this sh–. I just came to watch the goddamn movie.'”

But his grandson pressed on, asking, “‘They just said, she and she had a baby — they’re both women. How does she have a baby?'”

The rapper reflected that the experience “f—– me up. I’m like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of s— that I don’t have an answer for.”

It threw me for a loop. I’m like, ‘What part of the movie was this?” Snoop continued.

The “Gin and Juice” rapper and The Voice coach elaborated on his reluctance toward LGBTQ+ representation in films like Lightyear, saying, “These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for Snoop for comment.

Lightyear tells the origin story of the famed spaceman figurine from the Toy Story franchise, voiced by Chris Evans. Buzz Lightyear’s best friend and co-officer in the film, Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba), becomes stranded on an alien planet with several other members of their crew, where she’s seen in one montage marrying and raising a child with her partner Kiko.

The montage drew controversy before the film was even released for marking not just Disney’s first prominent LGBTQ+ character, but depicting its first same-sex kiss. The kiss was almost axed from the film’s theatrical cut, but a mass uprising of employees at the House of Mouse’s animation subsidiary, Pixar, worked to reinstate the shot.

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The comments by the 53-year-old rapper, born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., have led to calls for him to be replaced as the headline entertainer at the upcoming Australian Football League’s Grand Final. The rapper has previously been criticized for homophobic and transphobic remarks, such as calling Caitlyn Jenner a “science project,” and using an anti-gay epithet in a 2014 Instagram caption.