Since Beauty and Watch Playboy: Wet & Wild 3 (1991)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.
SEE ALSO: 'Beauty and the Beast' director reveals Disney's first openly gay characterA Russian MP urged the country to ban the movie release and Christian-run cinemas in America have cancelled its screenings.
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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