In Malaysia homosexuality is actually illegal, and thus they have numerous laws preventing it from being depicted on screen in most cases.
Several other nations with similar views have either decided to ban the film or have put more restrictive ratings on showings.
Beauty and the Beast director Bill Condon revealed in a pre-release interview that in this new version the character of Le Fou, played by Josh Gad, would be gay.
While the announcement that Disney was finally including a gay character in their films was generally met with a positive response, some places were less than happy.