Backlash grows over Disney's gay 'Bety and the Beast' character

Contents:

• 'BETY AND THE BEAST' FEATUR DISNEY'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’: JOSH GAD PLAYS DISNEY’S FIRST-EVER GAY CHARACTER
• 'BETY AND THE BEAST'S 'GAY MOMENT' MAY HAVE BEEN MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHG
• JOSH GAD ADMS 'BETY AND THE BEAST' REMAKE 'DIDN'T GO FAR ENOUGH' WH GAY CHARACTER'S STORYLE
• 'BETY AND THE BEAST' WILL TRODUCE WORLD TO FIRST GAY DISNEY CHARACTER
• OPNBETY AND THE BEAST'S GAY AGENDA IS PROOF HOLLYWOOD HAS GONE BONKERS
• BETY AND THE BEAST MAK HISTORY WH DISNEY'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• EWAN MCGREGOR ON BETY AND THE BEAST GAY CHARACTER NTROVERSY: 'IT'S 2017, FOR F--- SAKE'
• BACKLASH GROWS OVER DISNEY'S GAY 'BETY AND THE BEAST' CHARACTER
• IAN MCKELLEN LLS ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’ GAY NTROVERSY ‘BBISH’
• ALL THE CHARACTERS 'BETY AND THE BEAST' WHO WERE PROBABLY GAY ALL ALONG
• ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’ TO FEATURE DISNEY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
• JOSH GAD SAYS LIVE-ACTN BETY AND THE BEAST DIDN'T 'GO FAR ENOUGH' PICTG GAY CHARACTER

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

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

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.

'BETY AND THE BEAST'S 'GAY MOMENT' MAY HAVE BEEN MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHG

They're not talkg about the overall film, which is gettg great reviews (three out of four stars om USA TODAY) and breakg box office rerds wh a $170 ln but, the hight ever for March and the seventh-hight of all unrwhelmed reactn has been to the so-lled "exclively gay moment" the film, which has ed ternatnal ntroversy sce director Bill Condon first mentned an terview wh Attu the terview, Condon said the character LeFou (Josh Gad) would be portrayed as gay.

The "gay moment" that Condon was referrg to is a blk-and-you'll-miss- shot the film's fal sends. "If nobody had said that #LeFou had a 'gay moment'  #BetyAndTheBeast, I really don't thk would've even been a thg, " wrote one Twter er. "Watched the new #BetyAndTheBeast movie last night, hontly don't unrstand what the outrage (about) there beg a gay character was (about), " wrote another.

JOSH GAD ADMS 'BETY AND THE BEAST' REMAKE 'DIDN'T GO FAR ENOUGH' WH GAY CHARACTER'S STORYLE

"Bt part of my day was when half the theater clapped and cheered when the gay uple me on screen #BetyAndTheBeast, " reported one dience who supported the film appld how much money was able rack spe reported "boytts. "Though the moment was well-received or unrwhelmg to many dience members, there were some the LGBT muny who thought the reprentatn of a gay character did not go far enough.

Also LeFou is not gay enough, " one Twter er sentiment was shared by some LGBT crics and wrers. "Disney n pat self on s back all wants for turng a villao buffoon that was d as gay the origal film to a morally ambiguo buffoon who is more obvly gay, nfis a teapot, and tri out dancg wh a man, " wrote Vulture.

"Although I adored the movie overall, part of my tratn wh is that I had hoped for more out of Condon’s 'exclively gay moment, '" The Huffgton Post explaed.

'BETY AND THE BEAST' WILL TRODUCE WORLD TO FIRST GAY DISNEY CHARACTER

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.

OPNBETY AND THE BEAST'S GAY AGENDA IS PROOF HOLLYWOOD HAS GONE BONKERS

"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'. ”Although Disney films may have hted at homosexualy the past, cludg the speculatn over Frozen's Elsa, this would mark the first openly gay character to be featured  one -- a landmark moment that has the potential to impact s global dience, pecially untri where LGBT reprentatn is even ls visible on and the Beast hs theaters March most mt-see films of 2017, om 'Bety and the Beast' to 'Star Wars'.

No thanks — I'm not a, a drive- cema Alabama announced last week that had cid not to screen Disney's remake of s classic film Bety and the Beast bee featured a gay character.

BETY AND THE BEAST MAK HISTORY WH DISNEY'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

(That character is Gaston's sikick Lefou who, acrdg to the film's director, is "nfed about what he wants" but at the end of the movie has a "nice, exclively gay moment". )"You n feel ee to e watch wholome movi whout worryg about sex, nudy, homosexualy and foul language, " the Henagar Drive-In said a Facebook 'openly gay' character: Has everyone gone mad? Now, I love a children's film about btialy and Stockholm syndrome as much as the next person, but an openly gay character?!

Some people might argue that the cln of a gay character is actually a good thg — the Daily Beast, for example, has lled a "wele and clive velopment" wackadoos claim that LGBTQ young people viewg the film will feel accepted and empowered, knowg they are not alone. The cln of gay character Lefou (left) Bety and the Beast has been praised as a "wele and clive velopment".

EWAN MCGREGOR ON BETY AND THE BEAST GAY CHARACTER NTROVERSY: 'IT'S 2017, FOR F--- SAKE'

Featurg the voice of the famoly homosexual and openly female celebry, Ellen DeGener, Fdg Nemo also had "gay agenda" wrten all over .

BACKLASH GROWS OVER DISNEY'S GAY 'BETY AND THE BEAST' CHARACTER

After all, 's not jt homophobic drive- cemas Atlanta.

IAN MCKELLEN LLS ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’ GAY NTROVERSY ‘BBISH’

Polil lears Rsia are also llg for a ban of Bety and the Beast, which they say is gay propaganda.

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

I suggt we embrace their approach, but broan to clu all elements of children's films that brazenly pict homosexualy, cultural diversy, anti-opprsive them or all, 's not like they will enunter any of those issu when they step outsi. Bety and the Beast will feature Josh Gad's Le Fou as the first gay character a live-actn Disney movie.

A tly gay Disney character. It turns out Bety and the Beast is gog to feature the first gay character ever a Disney movie. Director Bill Condon was recently terviewed by Attu about the upg Bety and the Beast and he ma very clear; the movie will feature Disney's first ever "exclively gay moment" a movie.

A movie like this isn't likely to suffer at all at the box office wh the cln of this "exclively gay moment. Beg that Attu is a gay magaze, their edor--chief Matt Ca felt so as well and had this to say about .

‘BETY AND THE BEAST’ TO FEATURE DISNEY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

By reprentg same-sex attractn this short but explicly gay scene, the stud is sendg out a msage that this is normal and natural - and this is a msage that will be heard every untry of the world, even untri where 's still socially unacceptable or even illegal to be gay. Not only is this new versn of Bety and the Beast gog to feature La Fou as a gay character, but Emma Watson also talked wh the publitn a b about the "unrlyg queer sensibily" that exists wh her character Belle and Dan Stevens' Beast.

The actor, who voic Lumière, addrs the to-do over Josh Gad's LeFou beg Disney's first openly gay character Each product we feature has been penntly selected and reviewed by our edorial team. “It’s jt like, he’s a gay character and ’s 2017 for f— sake, ” the actor, who plays Lumière the film, told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Monday. “There’s a lot of gay sex this rtoon, ” he joked earlier, “and I thk if you live anywhere near Alabama you should not go and see this film.

” “There’s a lot of gay sex this rtoon, ” he joked earlier about Disney’s first openly gay character, “and I thk if you live anywhere near Alabama you should not go and see this film. ” McGregor was referrg to the Henagar Drive-In, the Alabama movie theater that nceled screengs of Bety and the Beast after director Bill Condon revealed Attu magaze that Josh Gad’s LeFou is gay. The backlash over a gay character appearg Walt Disney's Bety and the Beast is risg, puttg an Alabama theater and Rsian ernment officials on mon ground.

JOSH GAD SAYS LIVE-ACTN BETY AND THE BEAST DIDN'T 'GO FAR ENOUGH' PICTG GAY CHARACTER

A Henagar, Ala., drive- has nceled plans to screen Bety, while the Rsian ernment is nsirg banng the film followg revelatns that the character LeFou, played by Josh Gad, is gay. Reprentativ of the Henagar Drive-In announced Thursday on Facebook that the theater won't show Bety when 's released March 17 bee Disney is "premierg their first homosexual character.

"The post add that the theater would ntue to show "wholome" movi so patrons would not worry "about sex, nudy, homosexualy and foul language.

"In rponse to the Alabama theater's cisn, Bety and the Beast director Bill Condon told USA TODAY that outcry over the first gay character a Disney movie is “overblown.