FOF #2464 - Beauty on the Streets, Beast in the Sheets

Published: March 20, 2017, 6:55 a.m.

b'Audiences had their pitchforks and torches ready to kill the live action Beauty and the Beast over Disney\\u2019s inclusion of their first gay character ever.

But in the end, the new film was a beast in the box office, roaring into a record breaking opening weekend becoming the biggest ever for the month of March.

Did somebody bend unexpectedly?

Today, comedian Cody Melcher joins us to take a look at Disney\\u2019s live action remake of Beauty and the Beast, and all the delicious gay subtext from this and the classic 1991 Disney animated film.

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\\u27a4 Queer Beauty and the Beast fan art.

\\u27a4 Disney\\u2019s prequel/sequel or \\u201cinbetweenquel\\u201d \\u2013 An Enchanted Christmas with Tim Curry and Paul Reubens.


\\u27a4 Sesame Street introduces Julia, a new puppet with autism.


\\u27a4 Why everyone\\u2019s part of some kind of gay community whether they like it or not.'