Everyone is making the same point about the gay character in 'Beauty and the Beast'
"It's literally a story of a teenage girl falling in love with a BUFFALO."
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Since Beauty and the Beast director Bill Condon revealed that the live-action remake would feature an "exclusive gay moment" -- the first time in Disney history -- the inevitable backlash started.
A Russian MP urged the country to ban the movie release and Christian-run cinemas in America have cancelled its screenings.
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But many people on Twitter pointed out that critics of the gay subplot have missed that the main storyline is about a teenage girl falling in love with a buffalo (or wolf-bear):
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