It’s somebody who’s just realizing that he has these feelings. “LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston,” Condon reportedly continued. The sexed-up cartoon hunks that defined gay culture (Image credit: Tom of Finland Foundation Permanent Collection) By Nick Levine 24th March 2020 At the time of their creation, Tom of Finland’s. In an interview with British magazine Attitude, Beauty and the Beast director Bill Condon, who is openly gay, said manservant LeFou, played by Josh Gad, has “a nice, exclusively gay moment” in the movie, which opens in the U.K. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times is reporting that the forthcoming live-action remake of Disney’s animated classic, Beauty and the Beast, will feature the studio’s first “exclusively gay moment” in film. “It seems like the possibilities are pretty open at this point,” Clements said. Finally, last fall, Moana directors Ron Clements and John Musker told the Huffington Post they wouldn’t rule out an LGBT Disney princess. In 2016, during the final episode of fan-favorite series Gravity Falls, it was confirmed that that two of its recurring characters were in a same-sex relationship - although there was no on-screen smooching, heteronormative or otherwise. In 2014, Disney Channel’s Good Luck Charlie aired an episode that featured a lesbian couple bringing their kid over for a play date.
Club and Mashable have pointed out, Disney has taken steps over the past few years to include more LGBTQ-inclusive material in its various shows.
