Hip hop artist Snoop Dogg recently made a homophobic comment about a Pixar movie that included a same-sex couple, and now the writer who created the characters is speaking out.

Lauren Gunderson worked on the film Lightyear and reportedly revealed on her private Threads profile that she was the creator of the wife-and-wife couple (who appeared in a brief scene where one gives the other a chaste peck).

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Gunderson explained that when “a key character needed a partner,” it felt “so natural to write ‘she’ instead of ‘he.'”

“As small as that detail is in the film, I knew the representational effect it could have. Small line, big deal. I was elated that they kept it. I’m proud of it. To infinity. Love is love.”

As Huffpost reported, she also added that Snoop Dogg “sucks” and expressed hope that “he joins the side of Love.”

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She praised Pixar for deciding to include the moment despite the controversy it caused. “I know they got a lot of sh*t for this inclusion, but stuff like this matters because beautiful love like this exists.”

The scene has indeed stirred international controversy and got the movie banned in several countries, including Bahrain, Brunei, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates, and restricted in Singapore.

And now, Snoop has brought the controversy back. During an appearance on the It’s Giving podcast, he said he was recently forced to talk to his grandson about queer parents when they watched the film together.

“What you see is what you see, and they’re putting it everywhere,” he said. “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!’”

“Oh s**t, I didn’t come in for this s**t,” he continued. “I just came to watch the goddamn movie.”

Snoop, who is a born-again Christian, said the movie “f**ked me up. I’m like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of s**t that I don’t have an answer for.” He did not explain why he could not answer the simple question.

“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.

Despite his offense at a brief kiss, Snoop’s music was often cited by activists in the 1990s. concerned about obscenity in the recording industry. His albums, filled with swear words and explicit sexual imagery, were some of the first to get parental advisory stickers.

He also has a history of homophobia, and his earlier music contained anti-gay slurs.

After the recent controversy, Snoop appeared to post a lackluster apology in an Instagram comment from his verified account, but his representative told Entertainment Weekly that the post was fake.

“I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons,” read the comment. “All my gay friends [know] what’s up. They been calling me with love. My bad for not knowing the answers for a 6-year-old. Teach me how to learn. I’m not perfect.”

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