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Contents:

• ALL THE CHARACTERS 'BETY AND THE BEAST' WHO WERE PROBABLY GAY ALL ALONG
• ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’: JOSH GAD PLAYS DISNEY’S FIRST-EVER GAY CHARACTER
• LEFOU EMBRAC LE FEY: DISNEY GO GAY IN ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’
• EWAN MCGREGOR SLAMS BETY AND THE BEAST ‘GAY SCENE’ NTROVERSY
• ALABAMA THEATER WON'T SCREEN 'BETY AND THE BEAST' REMAKE DUE TO GAY CHARACTER
• THE “EXCLIVELY GAY” CHARACTER THE BETY AND THE BEAST REMAKE IS NOT AS REVOLUTNARY AS DISNEY THKS IT IS
• 'IT'S 2017.' EWAN MCGREGOR HAS NO TIME FOR FS OVER BETY AND THE BEAST'S 'GAY CHARACTER'

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

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. Not exactly the image wh which gay men like to be associated. There is a pattern wh all of the d “gay” characters, all of whom uld be scribed ntemporary terms as genr non-nformg: They’re all villas.

In an terview wh Bra’s Attu Magaze, Condon revealed that he will make his mark on the Disney legacy by allowg years of subtext to fally e to the surface, prentg the first “nice, exclively gay moment a Disney movie, ” the director said. READ MORE: Cate Blanchett Remds You Why She’s A Gay In Wh Powerhoe Drag Bar Lip Sync — Watch.

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

Condon, who unts Sir Ian McKellen as a good iend, is openly gay. Even if the moment wreaks of tokenism, is still a historic tone for Disney to regnize a gay character out loud. The actor – who plays Lumière Bill Condon’s live-actn remake of the Disney classic – turned the airwav blue when he cricised the uproar and nfirmed that Josh Gad’s character LeFou is gay.

LEFOU EMBRAC LE FEY: DISNEY GO GAY IN ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’

“There’s lots of gay of sex …there’s a lot of gay sex this rtoon, ” McGregor quipped. In character: Ewan McGregor as Lumière / DisneyReferrg to a cema Alabama that has ncelled the film over a gay character, he said: “And I thk if you live anywhere near Alabama, you should not go and see this film. ”Colbert said: “There are mours that LeFou has gay feelgs for Gaston.

”McGregor replied: “It’s jt like…he’s a gay character. ” LeFou, who plays the sikick to the villao Gaston (Le Evans), enjoys an “exclively gay moment” at the end of the film durg a group dance, which se him dancg wh a woman, before sidlg up to a drs-lovg henchman. (Lrie Sparham/Disney) / DisneyThe film, starrg Emma Watson as Belle alongsi Dan Stevens as the Beast, has been pulled om a number of cemas across the globe cludg untry’s two ma cema chas said the film had been postponed fely spe beg approved after removg the “gay moment” And The Beast - Trailer 3As well as troducg a gay character, the film also tak Belle a femist directn and featur two terracial upl - somethg Stanley Tucci said is an even bigger actor, who plays Matro Canza, the hband of Audra McDonald’s character Madame Garrobe, said: “This movie will have more ronance than ever — and is need more than ever.

Inevably, discsn of the ntroversy surroundg LeFou's “gay moment” the film me up. McGregor joked, “There's lots of gay of sex …there's a lot of gay sex this rtoon…And I thk if you live anywhere near Alabama, you should not go and see this film. Said Colbert: “There were mors that LeFou had gay yearngs for Gaston.

EWAN MCGREGOR SLAMS BETY AND THE BEAST ‘GAY SCENE’ NTROVERSY

“No, I thk he's a gay character, ” says McGregor. McGregor then laid out, to cheers: “It's jt like – he's a gay character.

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”Or alternatively, the fic where Lumière and Cogsworth start dancg wh each other far past bedtime, and Cogsworth has a gay panic later on while Lumière is tryg to figure out how to ask a man he's known for s out for a date. An Alabama movie theater will not screen Disney’s upg Bety and the Beast remake bee says the film featur a “homosexual character.

ALABAMA THEATER WON'T SCREEN 'BETY AND THE BEAST' REMAKE DUE TO GAY CHARACTER

” “For those that do not know Bety and the Beast is ‘premierg’ their first homosexual character. ” On Wednday, Attu Magaze published an excerpt onle which director Bill Condon revealed the film would feature an “exclively gay moment” volvg LeFou (Josh Gad), the sikick of the film’s ma antagonist, Gaston (Le Evans). It marks the first time a Disney film has featured an openly gay character.

THE “EXCLIVELY GAY” CHARACTER THE BETY AND THE BEAST REMAKE IS NOT AS REVOLUTNARY AS DISNEY THKS IT IS

We will ntue to show fay oriented films so you n feel ee to e watch wholome movi whout worryg about sex, nudy, homosexualy and foul language.

The upg live-actn Bety and the Beast remake will be the first Disney movie to feature an openly gay character, acrdg to director Bill Condon—and no, ’s not Lumière or Cogsworth. Condon revealed an terview wh Attu that Josh Gad’s characer, LeFou (the sikick to villao Gaston), will have what he lls an “exclively gay moment” the film. Attu’s own edor--chief, Matt Ca, seemed to offer more specifics about what, exactly, nstut an “exclively gay moment, ” while praisg the news.

“By reprentg same-sex attractn this short but explicly gay scene, the stud is sendg out a msage that this is normal and natural. Even settg asi the obv ntradictns at work here—the scene will be explicly gay but also “subtle, ” somehow—this is not que the groundbreakg, rah-rah, LGBTQ-clive moment Disney seems to believe is. And if the stud believ gay dienc n’t intify wh a character unls that character is explicly queer, they’ve missed the memo, bee, as Akash Nilas poted out a 2014 piece the Atlantic, between g-out anthems like “Let It Go, ” outsir villas who have been rejected by society, and protagonists who fd solace found fai, Disney has been subtly but surely promotg the “gay agenda” for years.

'IT'S 2017.' EWAN MCGREGOR HAS NO TIME FOR FS OVER BETY AND THE BEAST'S 'GAY CHARACTER'

Bety and the Beast don’t necsarily need a gay character, bee the animated movie is already a queer story which the hero are outsirs who are shunned for their differenc.

” And the Beast’s story, of a man who is physilly transformed, shunned by an ignorant public, and slowly fadg away, beme an allegory for the movie’s openly gay lyricist, Howard Ashman, who had jt been diagnosed wh AIDS when he began workg on the movie and died jt months before s 1991 release. (If you still doubt the gay parable at play here, jt thk of the lyrics of the mob’s song the movie: “We don’t like what we don’t unrstand/ In fact sr / And this monster is myster at least. Condon, who is openly gay himself, seems aware of and sensive to Bety and the Beast’s backstory, explag elsewhere Attu that was Ashman who expand the Beast’s role, as he sympathized wh a character whose curse “had brought sorrow on all those people who loved him and maybe there was a chance for a miracle and a way for the curse to be lifted.

But sce the film has chosen to do that by cludg a character who is lerally gay, ’s worth examg their choice. Y, marks a tone queer visibily, but is a far cry om givg , say, the first gay Disney Prcs, and the Bety and the Beast gay subplot will almost certaly be mor the grand scheme of the larger, hetero romance at the center of the movie’s narrative. He’s a by man and don’t have time for the fs over the gay character Bety and the Beast.