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At Least They Tried?

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2 March 2017

By Alex Khalil

This isn’t what we wanted from Beauty and the Beast.

You’d think, looking at Beauty and the Beast, the obvious pairing you would make would be Cogsworth and Lumiere, right? I’m not going mad here, if anyone was to have a gay relationship it would be them.

You’d think that, right?

Sadly, however, this isn’t what we got.

The openly gay character will be LeFou, who has “confusing feelings” toward his friend Gaston.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s great that Disney is trying to be inclusive, however a lot of people think this isn’t the way to go about it.

Twitter explained it pretty well:

Told you.

Philip Ellis puts it rather well too:

Disney had a bit of a blunder on this one. I mean… they had 2013 to make Elsa gay for goodness sake.

Bottom line:

Gay characters = totally cool, awesome, progressive.

Making a character, who has a historically borderline abusive relationship with the only other masculine presence in the film, gay = a bit lopsided.

Oh well.

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