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Josh Gad Shares Regrets About Gay LeFou In Disney’s Live-Action ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Remake

The actor is opening up about the general response and the global controversy surrounding his Beauty and the Beast character in his recent memoir…

Eight years after the verb of Disney’s live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, actor Josh Gad is reflecting on the controversy surrounding the film’s so-called “exclusively gay moment.” In his just-released memoir In Gad We Trust, Gad claims that he “never once” played his character LeFou as gay, and brushes off the implication that the 2017 film was intended to feature Disney’s “first-ever gay character” despite a brief scene towards the end of the film in which his character, LeFou, was seen dancing with another man.

“I for one certainly didn’t exactly feel like LeFou was who the queer community had been wistfully waiting for,” Gad writes. “I can’t quite imagine a Pride celebration in honor of the ‘cinematic watershed moment’

Brendan and the Beast

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Beckman (Stolen from Tomorrow) delights in this queer retelling of “Beauty and the Beast,” in which Beauty’s brother, Brendan, goes in Beauty’s place to the Beast’s castle to make fine on a wager that their father foolishly made with the Beast. Though initially the Beast tries to force Brendan to leave, hopeful that Beauty will finally be the one to undo the curse keeping him in his castle for centuries, the two slowly grow fond—and then more than fond—of one another. Will Brendan turn out to be the true passion who can undo the spell? It’s a tale as ancient as time, but Beckman enhances the familiar plot with beautiful prose and elements less prevalent to fairy tales, namely gay love and gay sex. Alternating perspectives between Brendan and the Beast adds depth to both, and several tongue-in-cheek appearances from the witch who cast the spell upon the Beast, who’s true goal has always been to make a good story, bring fourth-wall–breaking fun. Fairy tale lovers and romance aficionados alike will s

Here’s the ‘Exclusively Gay Moment’ in Beauty and the Beast

No one strings you along fond of Gaston! Photo: Laurie Sparham/Disney Enterprises

Mild spoilers follow for 2017’s Beauty and the Beast, which has a nearly identical plot to 1991’s Beauty and the Beast.

Most of Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast treads faithfully in the footsteps of the original, aside from an updated story line here and there, and a new song or two. (When Belle leaves, the Beast sings about being sad — a song that I swear is about 188 minutes long.) The most noteworthy change, which has already gotten press before the film’s release, is the fact that Josh Gad’s LeFou is gay, a Disney first, and he gets to include what director Bill Condon called a “nice, exclusively gay moment.” According to Condon, the transform is tribute to the slow Howard Ashman, who died of AIDS after writing the lyrics to the original film. It’s also in keeping with the progressive updates elsewhere in the film: Belle’s an inventor! She’s empowered! She’s a fan of Shakespeare, though

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