Disney puts ‘gay scene’ in Beauty and the Beast: Character of LeFou set to explore his sexuality and feelings for leading man Gaston in new film

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Gross. Their attacks on our children’s innocence are steadily becoming more and more brazen.
 
Not-so-dear-anymore Disney studios:

Shame on you. You lost me. Beauty & the Beast has been my #1 movie, it was very dear to me. I replayed it in my VHS during childhood every single day without getting bored of it. Each time it was a thrilling and exciting experience. The animated movie became hubby & I #1 couple’s love story movie. It is our movie. But you…you have betrayed me. You have lost my respect for you and your works. You have stained what I once saw as pure. If you excel in one thing, that would be corrupting and poisoning innocent minds to promote an agenda. You have done the same with your original movies, TV series and now Disney classics. Shame on you.

Sincerely,
A former fan.
 
Mr. Walt Disney will not be pleased. :mad:

I am personally thankful that my parents taught me at a very early age to have a strong personal belief and reliance in the power of prayer for Divine inspiration. My people were members of the Congregational Church in our home town of Marceline, Missouri. It was there where I was first taught the efficacy of religion… how it helps us immeasurably to meet the trial and stress of life and keeps us attuned to the Divine inspiration… **Deeds rather than words express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life. **I have watched constantly that in our movie work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether it deals with fable or with stories of living action.

This religious concern for the form and content of our films goes back 40 years to the rugged financial period in Kansas City when I was struggling to establish a film company and produce animated fairy tales. **Many times during those difficult years, even as we turned out Alice in Cartoonland and later in Hollywood the first Mickey Mouse, we were under pressure to sell out or debase the subject matter or go “commercial” in one way or another. **

But we stuck it out… Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them… Thus, whatever success I have had in bringing clean, informative entertainment to people of all ages, I attribute in great part to my Congregational upbringing and my lifelong habit of prayer…

Source: adherents.com/people/pd/Walt_Disney.html

Suffer the children. 😦

MJ
 
Boycotting this movie, but more as an objection to live action. This just put the nail in the coffin making that character gay.

It disgusts me that OLAF, the loveable snowman, is voiced by an actor proud to play an openly gay character.

I always thought LeFou was the abused sidekick…not gay.
 
jediliz said:
Boycotting this movie, but more as an objection to live action. This just put the nail in the coffin making that character gay.

It disgusts me that OLAF, the loveable snowman, is voiced by an actor proud to play an openly gay character.

I always thought LeFou was the abused sidekick…not gay.
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Indeed.

I have watched constantly that in our movie work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether it deals with fable or with stories of living action

MJ
 
This is so sad. I was so looking forward to seeing it. Now, I don’t know if I will.🤷
 
I was really excited about Beauty and the Beast. I loved watching the trailers. But not anymore. I will boycott this movie now, added to other movies that have done the same. Disney has become very radical and revolting. I miss the Disney of my youth.
 
Last year I remember a big hoopla about Finding Dory featuring the first ever gay couple in Disney. The Left was celebrating and the Right was panicking…and it ended up being two women walking next to each other. If you were inclined to see them as a couple you could, but it was ambiguous. Same thing with Frozen.

This looks like it’s going to be something similar honestly. A publicity stunt to generate controversy and sell tickets, but in the end the story on both sides will be way overblown. A male character “exploring feelings” for a straight man to me sounds like it’s going to play on screen as an awkward joke.

He’ll probably be staring at Gaston or make a strange compliment and then Gaston will make a comment like “bet you wish you were a woman huh?” and that will be it. Or maybe LeFou will make a few awkward glances when singing “No one’s got a swell cleft in his chin like Gaston.” But I think people are assuming it will be something explicit, and I just highly doubt that. Five or six years from now maybe, but not yet.

Disney is a liberal company, but it’s also extremely risk-averse. They want the largest audience possible, and they are going to continue to try and appeal to both sides until it’s not profitable.

I say this as someone not interested in seeing the new movie because the cartoon is perfect.
 
jediliz said:
It disgusts me that OLAF, the loveable snowman, is voiced by an actor proud to play an openly gay character.
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You really need to calm down. There’s nothing wrong with an actor playing a gay character. Geez.

Some of you people really need to relax. It’s a little silly, but it could also be a source of comedy: see Smither’s unrequited love for Mr. Burns in the Simpsons.

Disney does get a little preachy and some of it’s “updates” feel a little forced (Belle must be an inventor! :rolleyes:) but the hysterics are a little much. You’re acting like having a gay character is equivalent to having the hero of the movie endorse the Holocaust or something. There are gay people in movies because there are gay people in the world. You can’t go into a tailspin every time you encounter it.
jediliz said:
I always thought LeFou was the abused sidekick…not gay.
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Probably because as a kid, you weren’t really thinking in those terms. There were times when people were honestly oblivious to the Village People or Liberace being gay, but when you look back on it, you’re like, “Wow, how could they not see that?”

With adult eyes, LeFou can definitely be read as having an unrequited crush on Gaston.
 
Nothing surprises me nowadays. Why push this agenda on children! It’s going to far. My niece wants to see this movie because she was a fan of Emma Watson in Harry Potter.

What next! The next Disney movie will be promoting a transgender character! What has this world become!
 
Robyn_p said:
Disney is a liberal company, but it’s also extremely risk-averse. They want the largest audience possible, and they are going to continue to try and appeal to both sides until it’s not profitable.
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You are right, like most big companies, they could care less about any causes or agenda, or whats moral/ immoral, they are only interested in MONEY, and they can never make enough of it, basically its anything goes for them, as long as revenue increases.

In some ways, I think this kind of thing may be worse than committing the sin itself, as their ‘morals/ beliefs’ are up for sale so to speak.

Strangely though, Ive never seen the church address this.
 
Robyn_p said:
Last year I remember a big hoopla about Finding Dory featuring the first ever gay couple in Disney. The Left was celebrating and the Right was panicking…and it ended up being two women walking next to each other. If you were inclined to see them as a couple you could, but it was ambiguous. Same thing with Frozen.

This looks like it’s going to be something similar honestly. A publicity stunt to generate controversy and sell tickets, but in the end the story on both sides will be way overblown. A male character “exploring feelings” for a straight man to me sounds like it’s going to play on screen as an awkward joke.

He’ll probably be staring at Gaston or make a strange compliment and then Gaston will make a comment like “bet you wish you were a woman huh?” and that will be it. Or maybe LeFou will make a few awkward glances when singing “No one’s got a swell cleft in his chin like Gaston.” But I think people are assuming it will be something explicit, and I just highly doubt that. Five or six years from now maybe, but not yet.

Disney is a liberal company, but it’s also extremely risk-averse. They want the largest audience possible, and they are going to continue to try and appeal to both sides until it’s not profitable.

I say this as someone not interested in seeing the new movie because the cartoon is perfect.
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I think you are right. The stories I saw in the news yesterday all referred the actor who plays La Fou. It isn’t a news story put out by Disney, as I can tell.

Just a few days ago, I watched the End of Some Like it Hot, made in 1960 I believe. There was the subtle gay joke at the end, when Jack Lemmon’s character pulls off his wig and says “I’m a man” and the guy who proposed to him thinking he was named Daphne, said “Nobody’s perfect.” And we wonder if he know all along.
 
Robyn_p said:
Last year I remember a big hoopla about Finding Dory featuring the first ever gay couple in Disney. The Left was celebrating and the Right was panicking…and it ended up being two women walking next to each other. If you were inclined to see them as a couple you could, but it was ambiguous. Same thing with Frozen.

This looks like it’s going to be something similar honestly. A publicity stunt to generate controversy and sell tickets, but in the end the story on both sides will be way overblown. A male character “exploring feelings” for a straight man to me sounds like it’s going to play on screen as an awkward joke.

He’ll probably be staring at Gaston or make a strange compliment and then Gaston will make a comment like “bet you wish you were a woman huh?” and that will be it. Or maybe LeFou will make a few awkward glances when singing “No one’s got a swell cleft in his chin like Gaston.” But I think people are assuming it will be something explicit, and I just highly doubt that. Five or six years from now maybe, but not yet.

Disney is a liberal company, but it’s also extremely risk-averse. They want the largest audience possible, and they are going to continue to try and appeal to both sides until it’s not profitable.
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I think you may be right. The way the article reads makes me think they are trying to make a story to generate buzz.

The truth is Disney has always gone along with the culture. It isn’t even so much that they are liberal as they aim to profit off of whatever they can. They also aim to avoid unwanted attention. The left is very good at promoting its causes if for no other reason that they are by nature so bizarre they are newsworthy. If Disney doesn’t play along they get negative attention. But in the past when Disney may have seemed more conservative they weren’t. They were just going along with the current culture.
BoomBoomMancini said:
Probably because as a kid, you weren’t really thinking in those terms. There were times when people were honestly oblivious to the Village People or Liberace being gay, but when you look back on it, you’re like, “Wow, how could they not see that?”
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It is true as a culture we’ve lost our innocence. I think campiness was always homosexual. But some people just didn’t know the world was like that. At one time you could laugh at a man dressed as a woman. Now it is a hate crime.
 
Disney has come a long way from the time Snow White got down on her knees and prayed.
 
Sweet! I applaud Disney® for doing this. I, personally, don’t think that Gaston is dashing in any way but it is nice to see.
 
Personally I think it is saying more like “This is how it happened,” not “Let’s celebrate this!” Pretty neutral to me. There are a lot of innuendos in PG movies so … 🤷.
 
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