BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Will Feature Disney's First Openly Gay Character

I mean ion know why it's a big deal these people exist just like everyone else. You don't have to make it a big ass deal like gay people exist they human just like us it's not a damn achievement to have someone who is breathing on planet earth in a damn movie

I'm all for diversity, but this felt like another "easy" outing. I notice that most movies and shows when wanting to have a gay character in already existing material, they go for the easiest choices ...ones where there is already a trait that could be misunderstood as gay. On Supergirl, they choose the militant sister. On Once Upon a Time, they chose Mulan, the woman that disguised herself as a man. Here, they chose the lackey who kisses Gaston's ass. It isn't a stretch and is quite lazy.

Brooklyn 99 probably handles this the best. It would have been the easiest damn thing to make Boyle or Diaz gay ...but instead they chose a character that didn't play into the gay male stereotype of Captain Holt and it is perfect. It is also extremely progressive in a medium that has a hard time not writing these characters as Jacks from Will and Grace. Also, Paranorman handled this much better as well.

If these shows and movies REALLY want to be subversive, they wouldn't go for the easiest targets; I.E ones that stereotyped trait of another gender or hero worship of the same sex. Disney is just patting themselves on the back for not being that progressive, but kinda half assed. If they really wanted to embrace the LGBTQ culture, Belle's father would be gay ...or hell, make a very interesting statement with Gaston himself acting out because he himself is closeted and insecure about it (but that opens a lot of other problems.)

Besides, part of me thinks they are only just doing this to test the waters for Scar in the Live action-ish Lion King.