‘Bety and the Beast’: Disney’s First-Ever Gay Character Is LeFou, Voiced by Josh Gad – The Hollywood Reporter

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The "nice, exclively gay moment a Disney movie" is a ditn to the animated film's late lyricist Howard Ashman.

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ALL THE CHARACTERS 'BETY AND THE BEAST' WHO WERE PROBABLY GAY ALL ALONG

Even though LeFou might be the only 'out' character, 'Bety and the Beast' is rich wh queer characters and gay subtexts. * beauty and the beast adegan gay *

It’s certa as the sun — Josh Gad’s character Bety and the Beast is gay. But is a nice, exclively gay moment a Disney movie. The highly anticipated live-actn remake of “Bety and the Beast” will feature a gay character for the first time Disney's history, acrdg to the film’s director.

Director Bill Condon said an terview wh Attu, a Brish gay magaze, that LeFou, the goofy sikick of the film’s ma villa, Gaston, will fd his own subplot by explorg his sexualy. ” Condon promised the film will have a “nice, exclively gay moment” at the the LGBTQ have been advotg to see themselv reprented Disney films. Those g were advotg for givg the lead character Disney’s blockbter h “Frozen” a female love tert the news of LeFou beg Disney’s first gay character, however, was met wh mixed reactns.

‘BETY AND THE BEAST’: JOSH GAD PLAYS DISNEY’S FIRST-EVER GAY CHARACTER

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In the lead up to 2017's Bety and the Beast, Josh Gad's LeFou character was billed as havg Disney's first "exclively gay moment". In the 2017 live-actn Bety and the Beast remake, Gad played LeFou, Gaston's sikick whom director Bill Condon dubbed as Disney's first-ever openly gay character, tellg Attu magaze at the time that the character would have a "nice, exclively gay moment. ' My regret what happened is that beme 'Disney's first explicly gay moment' and was never tend to be that, " said Gad, 41.

"It was never tend to be a moment that we should ld ourselv for, bee ankly I don't thk we did jtice to what a real gay character a Disney film should be.

"But is a nice, exclively gay moment a Disney movie. RELATED VIDEO: Josh Gad on Controversial 'Gay Moment' In Bety and the Beast: 'This Film Is One of Inclivens'.

'BETY AND THE BEAST' FEATUR DISNEY'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

Disney's first tly gay character the live-actn Bety and the Beast has been met wh signifint backlash not jt the U. S., but now around the director Bill Condon told Attu magaze that LeFou, played by Josh Gad, would have a "nice, exclively gay moment" the film, the remake has bee a target for those who are rponse to Condon's ment, the Henagar Drive-In Theater Alabama nceled show tim for the film, wh the owner sayg a Facebook post, "If I n't s through a movie wh God or J stg by me then we have no bs showg .

"Tensn around the gay LeFou moment leapt om nservative small towns to the ternatnal stage when reports said Rsia was nsirg banng the movie the untry unr s "gay propaganda" has always hted at queer characters s movi, most notably sna-owner Oaken the 2013 h Frozen.

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