The Annie Award winner said that before production began on Beauty and the Beast, the creative team got together to decide on what level of love LeFou had for Gaston. Here was the decision they ...

The live-action Beauty and the Beast doesn't arrive in theaters until March 17, but fans are already buzzing about how the movie features Disney's first gay character, LeFou, played by Josh Gad.

In the lead up to 2017's Beauty and the Beast, Josh Gad's LeFou character was billed as having Disney's first "exclusively gay moment" Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE.

If queer audiences watching wanted to see themselves in Beauty and the Beast, more could have been done to make that happen than a few seconds of a same-sex dancing scene. LeFou's queerness may ...