Josh Gad says Beauty And The Beast didn't go "far enough" with LeFou's implied queerness "to warrant accolades"
"I don’t think we did justice to what a real gay character in a Disney film should be," says the actor

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Much like when J.K. Rowling decided Dumbledore was gay even though it was never actually mentioned in the Harry Potter books, Disney declared LeFou is gay in the live-action Beauty And The Beast, even though it’s never stated as such in the movie.
The only scenes hinting at LeFou being queer are his apparent infatuation with Gaston during the musical number praising the villain, and a blink-and-you-miss-it dance with a man at the end. The dance in particular was said to be Disney’s first “exclusively gay moment” by the movie’s director Bill Condon, but it barely counted as anything, since there’s no proof onscreen of LeFou being gay. He’s also dancing with a woman right before his male dancing partner steps in.