Why 'Beauty and The Beast' has been banned from a US cinema
- Publish Date
- Saturday, 4 March 2017, 3:10PM
Photo: Facebook/DisneyBeautyAndTheBeast
A cinema in the US state of Alabama is refusing to screen Beauty and the Beast after it was revealed one of the movie’s main characters is gay.
“It is with great sorrow that I have to tell our customers that we will not be showing Beauty and the Beast at the Henagar Drive-In when it comes out,” the company wrote on its Facebook page this week.
“When companies continually force their views on us we need to take a stand. We all make choices and I am making mine.”
“For those that do not know Beauty and the Beast is ‘premiering’ their first homosexual character … If we cannot take our 11-year-old granddaughter and eight-year-old grandson to see a movie we have no business watching it. If I can’t sit through a movie with God or Jesus sitting by me then we have no business showing it,” they added.
This decision came after just this week after the film's director, Bill Condon, revealed Gaston’s sidekick LeFou was going to be gay in the movie.
“LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston,” Condon told Attitude magazine. “He’s confused about what he wants. It’s somebody who’s just realising that he has these feelings.”
Condon also revealed there would be “a nice, exclusively gay moment in the Disney movie.”
Due to mounting public pressure, the theatre has since deleted the post.
“When companies continually force their views on us we need to take a stand. We all make choices and I am making mine.”
“For those that do not know Beauty and the Beast is ‘premiering’ their first homosexual character … If we cannot take our 11-year-old granddaughter and eight-year-old grandson to see a movie we have no business watching it. If I can’t sit through a movie with God or Jesus sitting by me then we have no business showing it,” they added.
This decision came after just this week after the film's director, Bill Condon, revealed Gaston’s sidekick LeFou was going to be gay in the movie.
“LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston,” Condon told Attitude magazine. “He’s confused about what he wants. It’s somebody who’s just realising that he has these feelings.”
Condon also revealed there would be “a nice, exclusively gay moment in the Disney movie.”
Due to mounting public pressure, the theatre has since deleted the post.
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