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WHY GAYWASHG IS WORSE THAN WHEWASHG

But I’m much more offend by the ‘gaywashg’ of LeFou the latt versn of Bety and the Beast. Director Bill Condon gave an exclive terview to gay magaze Attu.

The ver scrib Bety and the Beast as Disney’s ‘gayt film ever’. Condon promis a ‘watershed moment’ when LeFou, the edic sikick to the villao Gaston, has an ‘exclively gay moment’ the film.

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How credibly gay of him!

But serly – how do this make him ‘Disney’s first openly gay character’? I will only accept a character is openly gay if they’re shown to be, you know, openly gay. The term ‘queerbag’ has been ed to scribe media which lure an LGBT dience by tegratg a subtext of homoeroticism whout actually pictg , for fear of alienatg a mastream dience.

After all, if the filmmakers really thk the dience will be turned off by seeg gay moments movi, why are they gog about explicly promisg such moments?

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What all this suggts is that there are some inty-polics typ out there who will only go to the movi bee of the mere possibily of a character beg gay, regardls of if the film is any good.

GAYWASHG N’T BE THE NEXT GREENWASHG

The qualy of gay reprentatn don’t really matter this polil climate, nor do the qualy of the movi they feature . What matters is gay reprentatn movi that make lots of money.

The new Token TV shows is havg a gay character or uple, even if the actor is clearly hetrosexual. "Every s I watch has been practicg gaywashg.

THE TROUBLE WH "GAYWASHG"

If they don't have a gay sub-plot, they're jt not PC, so they have to add one. "Get the gaywashg nnonilly straight characters to gay or lbian the ships are mostly forced and don't go well.

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