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• The first gay Disney character is literally named The Fool
• He’s unrequitedly in love with a straight man
• A straight man who bullies and abuses him
• Le Fou will 99% likely NOT get a happy ending
• He’s being played by someone known to be straight
• His sexuality is basically a joke
• His sexuality is likely to be the butt of a joke the entire movie
• We already know the character will be the butt of the joke even if his sexuality itself isn’t
• His entire role in the movie is to be evil and stupid comic relief and boost Gaston’s self-esteem 
• He’s described as “confused” 
• Queercoding villains and Disney go together like peanut butter and jelly 
• Disney is patting itself on the back for all of this
• His character description is stereotypical
• Le Fou being gay for Gaston is already something of a cultural joke
• He’s barely in the movie
• He’s the only gay person in a love story, he will end up alone and evil
• People have been saying how you could improve the story by making it gay for years and of all the ideas this is the worst possible option for picking a gay character
• We coulda had lesbian Beast
• Kids will have this as their first gay Disney character
• For some kids this will be their first gay character period
• It will be their ONLY gay Disney character
• They chose to make a shot for shot remake of the animated movie with the most whitebread actors and the only thing they want to change up is making the evil fool gay
• Disney could get away with any kind of lgbt character because they are a monolith yet they choose this

THIS THIS IS WHY I REWROTE A FAIRYTALE for LGBTQ+. This. I am so fucking sick of our community not having positivity. I am tired of us not getting the happily-ever-after, of being the good guys. I am tired of our identities being props. I am tired of our love being a cliched joke that becomes the backdrop for someone else’s character development.

So if anyone ever asks me about why I wrote Cinderella Boy, this is why.