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

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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...

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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. * lumiere beauty and the beast 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. Not exactly the image wh which gay men like to be associated.

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

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

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. Condon, who unts Sir Ian McKellen as a good iend, is openly gay.

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

An Alabama movie theater will not screen Disney's upg Bety and the Beast remake bee the film featur a gay character, LeFou * lumiere beauty and the beast 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. “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.

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

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”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.

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

Said Colbert: “There were mors that LeFou had gay yearngs for Gaston. “No, I thk he's a gay character, ” says McGregor.

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

McGregor then laid out, to cheers: “It's jt like – he's a gay character.

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

It's fe and dandy to be part of the LGBTQ+ spectm Toontown, so rather than the lbian she *TRULY is*, she pretends that she's a gay boy; which is *SORELY* tted when she meets actually-que-tertg-and-smart Prcs Aurora Talia Briar-Rose 1959, and Belle Lda Paige 1991! ”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.

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