This week, Josh Gad confirmed a huge milestone for Disney. His portrayal of LeFou in ‘Beauty and the Beast’ will be the first appearance of an openly gay character in a Disney film!!

 

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Director of the film, Bill Condon, told Attitude magazine, “LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston. He’s confused about what he wants. It’s somebody who’s just realizing that he has these feelings. And Josh makes something really subtle and delicious out of it. And that’s what has its payoff at the end, which I don’t want to give away. But it is a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie.” 

 

Gad then went on Twitter to confirm the news:

 

 

The movie stars Emma Watson and Dan Stevens and is set for release on March 16th.

 

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