When Walt Disney Studio announced that the 2017 live adaptation of their tale as old as time Beauty and the Beast would be featuring the studio’s first openly gay character, people around the world went in upheaval. Bill Condon, the director of the movie and an openly gay man himself, divulged that the film would feature a “nice, exclusively gay moment” (Forani). Many members of the LGBTQ community, who thus far had to rely on subtext for any representation from the family-friendly studio, were ecstatic about the news. Some speculated it might be Cogsworth or Lumiere, two well-known, beloved…