Why did the villain have to be gay?

Nobody said he's gay. You're just assuming he's gay because he fits your gay stereotype you homophobe.

What's black and white and read all over? My profile.

Just because he's effeminate, it doesn't make him gay.

Having said that his sexuality is not only ambiguous but it doesn't matter. He's a good villain either way.

He didn't seem gay to me, he seemed kind of old school Disney wacky like The Mad Hatter.

I'm gay and it NEVER crossed my mind that Candy King/Turbo is gay

Being effeminate doesn't automatically equal "Welp, better go like me some menz!!"

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I don't recall the movie or creators stating he was gay. Source?

I think he sounded quite happy too.

I don't think his effeminate characteristics were about him being gay. I interpreted his character as a metaphor for a pedophile. effeminacy is seen as very 'weak' and unthreatening, and pedophiles will do a lot of things to try to trick children into thinking he is non-threatening, also his whole "have some candy" thing, etc. he's an old grey man trying to be a part of a game where all the characters are young girls. creepy as hell. basically, Turbo as King Candy = pedophile aka a sick man, Ralph and Vanellope = a normal, heathly fatherly/daughterly relationship

They didn't establish the character as gay. I'm not sure how you got a character having a lisp as gay, but that sounds like your issue. The character has no established sexuality.

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Just because you are too stupid to understand it, it does not mean that it is a plot hole