Disney slams Florida for signg 'Don't Say Gay' bill to law

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• DISNEY SAYS IT WILL TRY TO REPEAL “DON’T SAY GAY,” DON’T SPECIFY HOW
• AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• DISNEY WORKERS WALK OUT OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL AS PANY SENDS MIXED MSAG
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS
• “POLILLY CORRECT” SNOW WHE PHOTOS SPARK BACKLASHPHOTOS POSTED BY THE DAILY MAIL STIRRED UP IRE ONLE FRIDAY.BY SAVANNAH WALSHJULY 14, 2023AXELLE/BER-GRIFFSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEONCE UPON A TIME, A DISNEY LIVE-ACTN REMAKE SPARKED BACKLASH. NO, THIS WASN’T THE RACIST DISURSE AROUND THE LTLE MERMAID, OR BATE OVER POTENTIALLY QUEER BETY AND THE BEAST CHARACTERS, BUT NEWFOUND OUTRAGE ABOUT THE UPG REIMAGG OF SNOW WHE STARRG RACHEL ZEGLER.IT ALL STARTED WH A RECENT DAILY MAIL ARTICLE FEATURG WHAT THE PUBLITN SAID WERE SET PHOTOS OM THE FILM PUBLISHED UNR THE HEADLE, “EXCLUSIVE: SNOW WHE AND THE SEVEN... POLILLY-CORRECT COMPANNS? FIRST PICTUR OF NEW LIVE-ACTN REMAKE OF DISNEY CLASSIC SHOWS STAND- PRCS WALKG WH DIVERSE BAND OF MERRY MEN AND WOMEN AFTER ROW OVER G DWARF ACTORS.”THE OUTLET PUBLISHED SHOTS PURPORTEDLY PTURED ON THURSDAY OM THE MOVIE’S UK SET. THEY SHOW MULTIPLE ACTORS, SEEMGLY SNOW WHE’S WHIMSILLY NAMED NFIDANTS, AS DIFFERENT “GENRS, ETHNICI, AND HEIGHTS,” WHICH UPSET CERTA RNERS OF THE TER. THE SNOW WHE THE PHOTOS IS NOTABLY NOT ZEGLER OF WT SI STORY AND THE UPG HUNGER GAM PREQUEL, WHO ANNOUNCED, PER COLLIR, THAT SHE HAD PLETED FILMG ON THE PROJECT JULY 2022.A DISNEY SOURCE TOLD VF THAT WHILE THE ARE NOT OFFICIAL PHOTOS, THEY ARE OM THE PRODUCTN, WH STAND-S FOR SOME ST MEMBERS. THE DAILY MAIL TOLD VF STANDS BY S STORY.THE SNOW WHE REMAKE IS DIRECTED BY MARC WEBB, AND STARS GAL GADOT AS THE EVIL QUEEN AND TONY WNER ANDREW BURNAP. IT WILL REPORTEDLY CLU SONGS OM THE ORIGAL 1937 FILM, AS WELL AS NEW ON PENNED BY BENJ PASEK AND JT PL, BT KNOWN FOR THE MILS DEAR EVAN HANSEN, AND THE GREATT SHOWMAN.SCE PRODUCTN ON THE PROJECT WAS ANNOUNCED, HAS WEATHERED NTROVERSY. PETER DKLAGE PREVLY LLED THE STORY “FUCKG BACKWARD” FOR S POTENTIAL PICTN OF DWARFISM. IN A STATEMENT TO DEADLE, A DISNEY SPOKPERSON REPLIED WH THE FOLLOWG: “TO AVOID RERCG STEREOTYP OM THE ORIGAL ANIMATED FILM, WE ARE TAKG A DIFFERENT APPROACH WH THE SEVEN CHARACTERS AND HAVE BEEN NSULTG WH MEMBERS OF THE DWARFISM MUNY. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SHARG MORE AS THE FILM HEADS TO PRODUCTN AFTER A LENGTHY VELOPMENT PERD.”ZEGLER HERSELF TOLD VANY FAIR LAST OCTOBER: “PEOPLE ARE MAKG THE JOK ABOUT OURS BEG THE PC SNOW WHE, WHERE ’S LIKE, YEAH, IS—BEE NEED THAT. IT’S AN 85-YEAR-OLD RTOON, AND OUR VERSN IS A REHG STORY ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN WHO HAS A FUNCTN BEYOND ‘SOMEDAY MY PRCE WILL COME.’”THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMER25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONINSI ALL OF US STRANGERS, ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYBY DAVID CANFIELDSAVANNAH WALSH
• DISNEY CEO SAYS PANY OPPOS 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FLORIDA, SEEKS MEETG WH DESANTIS
• DISNEY VOWS TO HELP REPEAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW, SAYS FLORIDA GOV. DESANTIS SHOULDN'T HAVE SIGNED
• DISNEY SLAMS FLORIDA FOR SIGNG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL TO LAW

DISNEY SAYS IT WILL TRY TO REPEAL “DON’T SAY GAY,” DON’T SPECIFY HOW

Ron DeSantis’ signg of Florida’s notor “Don’t Say Gay” bill on Monday, the Walt Disney pany released a brief statement on Twter llg for the bill’s repeal, and exprsg solidary wh LGBTQ+ people Florida. “Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed to law, ” the entertament giant’s statement reads. The so-lled 'Don't Say Gay' bill was passed by Florida's Hoe and Senate and is head to Gov.

Ron DeSantis Wednday morng, "to exprs our disappotment and ncern that if the legislatn be law, uld be ed to unfairly target gay, lbian, non-bary and transgenr kids and fai.

"The Human Rights Campaign will not accept this money om Disney until we see them build on their public mment and work wh LGBTQ+ advot to ensure that dangero proposals, like Florida's Don't Say Gay or Trans bill, don't bee dangero laws, and if they do, to work to get them off the books, " says Joni Madison, Interim Print of the Human Rights Campaign a statement. Acrdg to the acuntabily news se Popular Informatn, " the last two years, Disney has donated $197, 162 to members of the Florida legislature that have already voted for the 'Don't Say Gay' legislatn, " cludg to sponsors of the bill, Florida Rep. " On Sunday, before the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill passed the state Senate, Siemon posted an impassned vio plea llg for Disney to say the legislatn is wrong.

AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Siemon creds one of his middle school teachers for helpg him unrstand that was OK to be gay. Siemon implored the pany to stop supportg those policians, endg wh the words, "Disney, please say gay. ”The Walt Disney Company, one of the world’s biggt media and entertament empir, pris self on a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) iendly culture.

But today s reputatn for clivy and tolerance is unr scty – as are s ep ti to the polil tablishment and the lack of LGBTQ reprentatn s ’s workers have been stagg walkouts prott at chief executive Bob Chapek’s lackltre rponse to Florida legislatn dubbed “don’t say gay”. But their prejudic were laid bare by a tweet om Christa Phaw, prs secretary for Florida’s ernor, Ron DeSantis, that said: “The bill that liberals accurately ll ‘don’t say gay’ would be more accurately scribed as an anti-groomg bill.

It has been nmned as “hateful” by Joe Bin and other Democrats who argue that monis LGBTQ, prs secretary of the LGBTQ rights anisatn Equaly Florida and a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shootg 2016, says: “The ‘don’t say gay bill’ was dubbed that by the muny bee is a bigoted, very specifilly anti-LGBTQ piece of legislatn signed to censor classroom speech about our muny. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invisn/APYet the “don’t say gay” bill wrong-footed Chapek, who succeed Bob Iger as chief executive Febary 2020.

DISNEY WORKERS WALK OUT OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL AS PANY SENDS MIXED MSAG

They give to a lot of Democrats, bee they want those Democrats to be on their si too, but they have given a disproportnate amount to Republin legislators, many of whom supported and voted for the ‘don’t say gay’ bill. The Human Rights Campaign has said will stop acceptg money om Disney “until we see them build on their public mment and work wh LGBTQ+ advot to ensure that dangero proposals, like Florida’s ‘don’t say gay or trans’ bill, don’t bee dangero laws” Whehall and Ey Blunt Jungle Cise.

Eric Marc, creator and host of the Makg Gay History podst, says: “Disney has cultivated an LGBTQ-iendly image, both through their cln of LGBTQ characters recent years and wh their employe, so ’s shockg but not shockg that the CEO would have been so flat-footed.

FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'

Photograph: APFor s the stud’s output was steadfastly heterosexual even though s creative talents clud gay people such as Howard Ashman, an Osr wner who wrote the lyrics for The Ltle Mermaid and Bety and the Beast before his ath om Aids has been some progrs sce then wh a growg LGBTQ portrayals films and TV shows and the sellg of LGBTQ pri-themed merchandise at Disney stor. Last year’s film Jungle Cise featured a proment gay character: McGregor Houghton, played by Jack Whehall.

“Nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn is cut at Disney’s beht, regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar. Acrdg to a Disney official, there had been no terptns any operatns as of midday employed 190, 000 workers last October, wh roughly three-quarters workg s theme parks bate forced the pany to a balancg act between the expectatns of a diverse workforce and mands om an creasgly polarized, policized one si are LGBTQ advot and Disney employe llg for the walkout prott of CEO Bob Chapek’s slow rponse publicly cricizg Florida legislatn that opponents dubbed as the “don’t say gay” bill.

It also spoke out early agast a 2016 anti-gay bill Geia, threateng to pull s bs om the state, which has bee a favore of movie and TV studs. The bill, which some opponents have lled "Don't Say Gay, " was signed by DeSantis on Monday. The "Don't Say Gay" moniker om crics of the measure who blast this ia and sist this policy will hurt LGBTQ children.

STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS

"Florida's HB 1557, also known as the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed to law, " the statement read. "Iger, the CEO of one of Florida's largt employers, also fend Disney's right to speak out last year agast a ntroversial state bill that limed classroom discsn of LGBTQ+ issu, dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by move by then-CEO Bob Chapek, who succeed Iger 2020 and rigned 2022 when Iger returned to the helm, kicked off the bter fd wh the ernor and his Republin alli. "The DeSantis mpaign rpond to Iger later Thursday by tweetg a vio clip of Disney executive Karey Burke speakg a 2022 pany-wi Zoom ll about LGBTQ reprentatn the pany's that clip scrib herself as a mother of two queer children and says, "We don't have enough leads and narrativ which gay characters jt get to be characters and not have to be about gay stori.

The basis for the su was that Disney's directors and officers allegedly vlated their rporate fiduciary duti by opposg Florida HB 1557 – also known as the "don't say gay" HB 1557 was first passed, Disney took no public posn on the bill.

“POLILLY CORRECT” SNOW WHE PHOTOS SPARK BACKLASHPHOTOS POSTED BY THE DAILY MAIL STIRRED UP IRE ONLE FRIDAY.BY SAVANNAH WALSHJULY 14, 2023AXELLE/BER-GRIFFSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEONCE UPON A TIME, A DISNEY LIVE-ACTN REMAKE SPARKED BACKLASH. NO, THIS WASN’T THE RACIST DISURSE AROUND THE LTLE MERMAID, OR BATE OVER POTENTIALLY QUEER BETY AND THE BEAST CHARACTERS, BUT NEWFOUND OUTRAGE ABOUT THE UPG REIMAGG OF SNOW WHE STARRG RACHEL ZEGLER.IT ALL STARTED WH A RECENT DAILY MAIL ARTICLE FEATURG WHAT THE PUBLITN SAID WERE SET PHOTOS OM THE FILM PUBLISHED UNR THE HEADLE, “EXCLUSIVE: SNOW WHE AND THE SEVEN... POLILLY-CORRECT COMPANNS? FIRST PICTUR OF NEW LIVE-ACTN REMAKE OF DISNEY CLASSIC SHOWS STAND- PRCS WALKG WH DIVERSE BAND OF MERRY MEN AND WOMEN AFTER ROW OVER G DWARF ACTORS.”THE OUTLET PUBLISHED SHOTS PURPORTEDLY PTURED ON THURSDAY OM THE MOVIE’S UK SET. THEY SHOW MULTIPLE ACTORS, SEEMGLY SNOW WHE’S WHIMSILLY NAMED NFIDANTS, AS DIFFERENT “GENRS, ETHNICI, AND HEIGHTS,” WHICH UPSET CERTA RNERS OF THE TER. THE SNOW WHE THE PHOTOS IS NOTABLY NOT ZEGLER OF WT SI STORY AND THE UPG HUNGER GAM PREQUEL, WHO ANNOUNCED, PER COLLIR, THAT SHE HAD PLETED FILMG ON THE PROJECT JULY 2022.A DISNEY SOURCE TOLD VF THAT WHILE THE ARE NOT OFFICIAL PHOTOS, THEY ARE OM THE PRODUCTN, WH STAND-S FOR SOME ST MEMBERS. THE DAILY MAIL TOLD VF STANDS BY S STORY.THE SNOW WHE REMAKE IS DIRECTED BY MARC WEBB, AND STARS GAL GADOT AS THE EVIL QUEEN AND TONY WNER ANDREW BURNAP. IT WILL REPORTEDLY CLU SONGS OM THE ORIGAL 1937 FILM, AS WELL AS NEW ON PENNED BY BENJ PASEK AND JT PL, BT KNOWN FOR THE MILS DEAR EVAN HANSEN, AND THE GREATT SHOWMAN.SCE PRODUCTN ON THE PROJECT WAS ANNOUNCED, HAS WEATHERED NTROVERSY. PETER DKLAGE PREVLY LLED THE STORY “FUCKG BACKWARD” FOR S POTENTIAL PICTN OF DWARFISM. IN A STATEMENT TO DEADLE, A DISNEY SPOKPERSON REPLIED WH THE FOLLOWG: “TO AVOID RERCG STEREOTYP OM THE ORIGAL ANIMATED FILM, WE ARE TAKG A DIFFERENT APPROACH WH THE SEVEN CHARACTERS AND HAVE BEEN NSULTG WH MEMBERS OF THE DWARFISM MUNY. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SHARG MORE AS THE FILM HEADS TO PRODUCTN AFTER A LENGTHY VELOPMENT PERD.”ZEGLER HERSELF TOLD VANY FAIR LAST OCTOBER: “PEOPLE ARE MAKG THE JOK ABOUT OURS BEG THE PC SNOW WHE, WHERE ’S LIKE, YEAH, IS—BEE NEED THAT. IT’S AN 85-YEAR-OLD RTOON, AND OUR VERSN IS A REHG STORY ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN WHO HAS A FUNCTN BEYOND ‘SOMEDAY MY PRCE WILL COME.’”THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMER25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONINSI ALL OF US STRANGERS, ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYBY DAVID CANFIELDSAVANNAH WALSH

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.

” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor.

DISNEY CEO SAYS PANY OPPOS 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FLORIDA, SEEKS MEETG WH DESANTIS

“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.

” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. ” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.

DISNEY VOWS TO HELP REPEAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW, SAYS FLORIDA GOV. DESANTIS SHOULDN'T HAVE SIGNED

An executive producer at Disney, she was a speaker at a recent virtual all-hands pany meetg about Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Ravene stepped up to fend the pany’s queer iendls, only to bee a natnal object of right-wg fury and a vio ll, Ravene spoke about her ial apprehensn about takg a job at Disney, fearg she wouldn’t be allowed to clu gay characters the projects she worked on. Instead, she said, everyone she’s worked wh has weled her “not at all secret gay agenda, ” lettg her add “queerns” to the animated show she directs, a revival of an early-ghts seri lled “The Proud Fay.

The show’s ma character, Penny Proud, has a flamboyant gay iend who has to al wh bullyg, and another character has gay dads.

The story has blown up on the right, where Ravene’s arch reference to a gay agenda is beg treated as an admissn that she has a plan to rpt kids. Ravene has land the middle of a renascent moral panic, one that b elements of QAnon wh old trop about gay I spoke to Rufo on Thursday, he was ank about wantg to punish Disney for givg to employee prsure to oppose the Florida law.

DISNEY SLAMS FLORIDA FOR SIGNG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL TO LAW

1557, the “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibs classroom stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty for kids below fourth gra, and any such stctn that is not “age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate” for olr stunts. What nstut “classroom stctn” is unclear, but many fear uld clu any mentn of gay or transgenr people, cludg stunts’ fai. ” The QAnon ia that the right’s polil opposn is a bal of pedophil has gone is, of urse, not the first time that gay and genr-nonnformg people have been amed as a moral threat to children.

In 1977, Ana Bryant, a former bety queen and spokwoman for the Florida Cs Commissn, started the anti-gay Save Our Children mpaign.