Disney's 。 Beauty and the Beast 。is easily one of the greatest and gayest children's movies of all time. 。
The company recently made headlines after deciding to include a single gay character in their latest live-action version. 。
Critics called their inclusion of one gay character groundbreaking -- which it was -- but as any unhealthy obsessed fan of the movie knows, the original。 Beauty and the Beas 。Beauty and the Beas。
t was rich with queer subtexts and characters (or at least, ones we could dream about).。SEE ALSO:'Beauty and the Beast' director reveals Disney's first openly gay character 。
Listen: the movie came out (hardee-har) in 1991. Few people were openly queer on television, and certainly not in Disney princess movies. And animated tea cups can't *technically* have hypothetical sexualities, because they're . . . animated tea cups.。
No matter. Queer representation was and remains limited. All the queer community had were beautiful and technically unsupported fan theories, theories I would now like to advance as fact.。SEE ALSO:Malaysia holds off screening 'Beauty and the Beast' after scene involving 'gay moment'。 SEE ALSO:Malaysia holds off screening 'Beauty and the Beast' after scene involving 'gay moment'。 Below is list of characters from。
1. Cogsworth。
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because he knows what it's like to love in an atmosphere of shame. This is no bromance. Lumière is no bro. This is love.。
Via Giphy。Yes, fine, Belle loves the Beast, a sputtering Buffalo with an intermittent rage disorder and a George W. Bush-level of skill in art. We've all had no choice but to accept that inconvenient truth. But Belle spent years single by choice before she decided to form a relationship.。
Do you really think there was no one available in her "small" little town?
4. Gaston 。
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5. The town hairdresser。 5. The town hairdresser。Credit: youtube。
Obviously, stereotypes aren't real and not all male hairdressers are gay, but this one is. While everyone else logically obsesses over Belle, he remains completely indifferent. Look at the clip. This guy could give AF that there's a beautiful woman skipping past his door literally leading a whole horrible town in song. He's either not that interested in women or not that interested in town sing-a-longs. 。The latter is, we all know, impossible. 。 The latter is, we all know, impossible.。6. LeFou。
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, and not a particularly positive one. But regardless of what we think of LeFou as an animated person, we're all very happy for him. LeFou is so queer Disney could barely disguise it in the original. If only Gaston could come to the same conclusion, what a beautiful romance would develop, if only in our minds.。