LeFou is so queer Disney could barely disguise it in the original. If only Gaston could come to the same conclusion, what a beautiful romance would develop, if only in our minds.

Norgie Montes De Oca-Metzinger, left, as Gaston, berates his loyal friend LeFou, played by Paul Marquez, in "Beauty and the Beast" at the Rhode Center for the Arts.

Ken Lemon joined the Channel 9 Eyewitness News team as the Gaston Bureau reporter/photographer in September, 1998. He came to the Charlotte market from WECT-TV in Wilmington, North Carolina, where ...

His song in Beauty and the Beast -- no one's neck's as incredibly thick as Gaston! -- is one of the catchiest songs there is. It's impossible not to end up with it stuck in your head.