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Beauty and the Beast: Russia considers ban over 'gay moment'

Russian officials are coming under pressure to verb if Disney's new film Beauty and the Beast breaches the country's law against "gay propaganda".

Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said operation would be taken after the checks while an MP described the film as "shameless propaganda of sin".

The live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast features Disney's first ever gay character and treasure scene.

A Russian law prohibits the spreading of "gay propaganda" among minors.

The legislation, which has angered human rights activists and the international gay community, describes homosexuality as "non-traditional sexual relations".

Homosexuality was decriminalised in Russia in and the country officially removed it from a list of psychiatric disorders in

However, homophobic attacks have been documented in recent years.

Director Bill Condon has spoken of an "exclusively gay moment" in Beauty and the Beast.

It involves LeFou, who is a sidekick of th

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Mild spoilers verb for ’s "Beauty and the Beast," which has a nearly identical plot to ’s "Beauty and the Beast."

Most of Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast treads faithfully in the footsteps of the original, aside from an updated story line here and there, and a new song or two. (When Belle leaves, the Beast sings about being sad — a anthem that I swear is about minutes long.)

The most noteworthy change, which has already gotten press before the film’s release, is the fact that Josh Gad’s LeFou is gay, a Disney first, and he gets to possess what director Bill Condon called a "nice, exclusively gay moment." According to Condon, the change is tribute to the overdue Howard Ashman, who died of AIDS after writing the lyrics to the original film. It’s also in keeping with the progressive updates elsew

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Gay Beast formed mid during a fit of anxiety towards Midwestern passive aggression and as an attempt to produce music that was queer in composition and aesthetic. Wielding a battery of drums, scraped and hammered guitars, chanted vocals, retro-future synths, saxophone, and other electronics, the trio (Angela Gerend, Daniel Luedtke, Isaac Rotto) build songs on grounds that adjoin complexity and catchiness, a space where both abrasion and tunefulness inhabit.

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