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Beauty And The Beast And The Gays

3/19/2017

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      Having seen this past weekend the much heralded Disney live-action re-make of "Beauty  and the Beast,"  
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   I would like to say something to all those conservative Christians who are boycotting the film because they believe it promotes the Gay Agenda:
      You guys are 100% spot-on about this movie.  Really.
    Because if, along with being a call for human rights and equality, the Gay Agenda also entails equal LGBTQ representation in film, "Beauty and the Beast" definitely  represents.
     So, all you Christians who don't want to see the film because you've heard there's a gay character?   Don't see it, I tell you. Seriously, don't.  And tell all your like-minded friends not to see it, either.  Because there is a gay character in the movie.  In fact I counted three gays and one transgender.
      Now, one of the gays - in the notorious 2-second "dance scene" - and the transgender had only a passing moment on screen.  

     But if the film's  two principal human guys, Gaston and Le Fou, aren't a gay couple,
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 then I'm Mike Pence.*
     And for all Gaston's endeavors to snag beautiful Belle as his wife,  that guy has no more romantic interest in that girl than she has in him.
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     But why  has this village girl no interest, not even a weence, in this handsome soldier, with whom she shares a good amount of on-screen chemistry?
     After all, the live Gaston, while no paragon of chivalry or virtue,

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is nowhere near the reprehensible bad guy that the animated Gaston was. (At least in the first part of the film where the attempted wooing takes place).
   And, while he in truth only wants Belle as a trophy wife, a necessity for any man living in the 18th Century French countryside where, prior to 1791 when homosexuality was decriminalized, the fate of a man discovered to be a "sodomite" could be quite terrible, this Gaston, unlike the original Gaston, does show some concern for Belle's welfare.  And he is a spectacularly buff and good looking guy.
     So why, then, will Belle not give Gaston the time of day?
     Well, obviously, because she can tell he's gay.  As could I.  As could anybody.
     Look, never mind the brief, over-bally-hooed dance scene.  What about the scene in which Gaston admires himself in a mirror, followed by a suggestive quip from Le Fou?  What about the scene in which Le Fou and Gaston not-quite-accidentally end up wrapped around each other and Le Fou asks "Too much?" 
    What about the fact that Gaston, a soldier just home from the battlefield,  not only has no interest in even checking out any of the foxy village ladies dressed in their fanciest frocks who are throwing themselves at him, but arranges for his horse to splatter a group of them with mud then shoots the poor mud-covered lasses a look of scornful derision?  Does that sound like the move of a guy who likes women?  Or of a guy who's trying to send the ladies  a not-subtle message to bug off?
     As far as the trans character goes, be on the look-out for a moment in the battle-for-the-castle scene.

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   In any case, you won't miss it, believe me.  Unless you boycott the film. Which you really should do if you're a homophobe.
   But for everybody else, sure, I'd recommend seeing "Beauty and the Beast," even though I must admit that I would have enjoyed the movie much more if I hadn't already seen the original animated version, which I couldn't get out of my head as I watched the live version.

      As my  son Tommy, who also saw the film this weekend and agreed expressed it, 
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...the   animated version is just so charming in a way that the realism of a live version couldn't match.
     But in this live version of  "Beauty and the Beast" Disney does offer a true slice of realism in its promotion of  the Gay Agenda, and for that matter, the Racial Diversity Agenda as well.
     And so for this reason I think this "Beauty and the Beast" is an even better film  than the original.
    I only hope in its next live remake of an old animated movie Disney will include some lesbian characters, too.

     *The most notoriously anti-LGBTQ governor in the United States until he became Donald Trump's
Vice-President.

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