Disney’s ntroversial rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill unrsr the pany’s plited history wh the LGBTQ+ muny — a plex relatnship which Disney has played both champn and punchg bag.
Contents:
- AN LGBTQ MEC: DISNEY, THE RPORATE KG OF ORLANDO, IS REVERED AS A QUIET CHAMPN OF GAY RIGHTS
- ACRDG TO DISNEY CEO MICHAEL EISNER, 40% OF THEIR WORKFORCE IS GAY
- MICHAEL OVZ BLAM HIS DOWNFALL ON ''GAY MAFIA''
- MICHAEL LEISNER DEAD: ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PROTTOR WHO SET FIRE ON GENERAL MILLS LAWN DI
- ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ UNEXPECTED SHOWDOWN BETWEEN FLORIDA, DISNEY RPORATN
- THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
AN LGBTQ MEC: DISNEY, THE RPORATE KG OF ORLANDO, IS REVERED AS A QUIET CHAMPN OF GAY RIGHTS
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WASHINGTON (BP)–Two months before Disney Company chairman Michael Eisner said on natnal televisn the entertament giant has no pro-homosexual agenda, his pany helped unrwre a benef receptn for a homosexual rights anizatn at the premiere of a petg stud’s same day Disney helped sponsor the benef, a published report said Hollywood Supports, a group for which Eisner is a tstee, had been so succsful s six years of advancg homosexual rights the entertament dtry that was shuttg down and transferrg s work to other the premiere of the homosexual-themed “In & Out” Sept.
“It’s jt ridiculo, ” said Peter LaBarbera, an analyst for the Washgton-based Fay Rearch Council and a veteran observer of the homosexual rights movement who publish the Lambda Report on Homosexualy. ” A phone ll to Disney’s rporate munitns office seekg ment was not was not the only stud to sponsor the September fund-raiser for NGLTF, task force velopment director Sonya Shields told Baptist Prs, but was the only one ced a news release om the homosexual rights group. The teacher, who is preparg to marry his longtime girliend, ni he is homosexual but eventually cis he is after all when he is kissed passnately by a homosexual news reporter, played by Tom Selleck.
ACRDG TO DISNEY CEO MICHAEL EISNER, 40% OF THEIR WORKFORCE IS GAY
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The movie has grossed more than $60 ln theaters this the same day “In & Out’ premiered, a report Daily Variety said Hollywood Supports would close and mov s programs on workplace issu volvg homosexualy and AIDS to the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn and AIDS Project Los Angel, rpectively.
Disney extend health benefs to the partners of s homosexual employe told how Disney joed the domtic partners bandwagon a report a 1996 issue of The Advote, a leadg magaze for homosexuals.
MICHAEL OVZ BLAM HIS DOWNFALL ON ''GAY MAFIA''
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”Among other actns ced by Disney crics as evince of the pany’s creasg support of homosexual rights are:— operatn wh homosexuals holdg “Gay Days” at s theme parks, though the pany do not sponsor the events;— publitn of books promotg homosexualy, such as “Growg Up Gay, ” through subsidiari;— distributn of homosexual-themed movi such as “Prit” and “Chicks Whe Sat” through subsidiari;— the “g out” of the lead character on Disney-owned ABC’s show “Ellen. ”Touchstone is a subsidiary of this year’s “Gay Day” at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Fla., a homosexual “fay” of seven men and women was clud the mid-day “Disneymania” show ont of Crella’s Castle, a Washgton-based homosexual newspaper reported.
“When they appeared as the 10th fay on stage durg the performance, the crowd of people a sea of red shirts watchg the mil salute let go an enormo roar of approval, ” acrdg to the homosexuals wear red shirts to the event, which is seven years old at Disney World. Folks, about 19 years ago I attend an LGBTQ stunt nference at UC-Santa Cz which a very powerful homosexual activist, Elizabeth Birch, then executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, “dished” about a nversatn she had wh then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner. The recent ncern over Disney’s Bety and the Beast ‘gay moment’ may lead some to believe that Disney has jt lnched on a new mpaign to promote homosexualy, but the pany has been at for many years already.
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But even 1998, former Disney CEO Michael Eisner told a homosexual lear that a whoppg 40 percent of the entertament rporatn’s employe were “gay, ” acrdg to a proment LGBT activist ught on tape relayg the private nversatn at a homosexual stunt event.
One wonrs: if a full 40 percent of Disney employe were homosexual back 1998, almost two s ago–before the LGBT movement grew tremendoly power wh the media, amia and the rporate world rallyg behd —what percentage of Disney employe intify as LGBTQ today? Surely the enormo “gay” sir fluence at the once-fay-oriented pany has not waned sce then, as the current ntroversy over Disney’s cln of a scene timatg homosexual romance s “Bety and the Beast” remake ttifi. This radil parture om tradnal Disney valu is nowhere more evint than the pany’s headlong sh to promote homosexualy as normal and to prof enormoly om that promotn.
Disney and the Homosexual agendaWhen Disney extend pany benefs to the same-sex partners of s homosexual employe, was followg a blueprt veloped by Hollywood Supports, a powerful workplace advocy group that wants to fluence cultural attus ncerng homosexualy. Mickey’s sympathetic earsPerhaps another reason gay activists have found the Magic Kgdom eager to embrace their e is the signifint number of homosexuals Disney management. Elizabeth Birch, homosexual activist and executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, told the Aspen Human Rights Summ II Colorado that she “said to Michael Eisner, ’30% of your employe are gay, ’ and he said, ‘You’re wrong, Elizabeth.
‘DON’T SAY GAY’ UNEXPECTED SHOWDOWN BETWEEN FLORIDA, DISNEY RPORATN
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The Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), a homosexual media watchdog group, stated March, 1997, that of the 29 homosexual, bisexual, and transgenr regular characters on prime-time televisn – 13 were on ABC. Eisner’s plan for the work apparently clouds a growg homosexual prence, a pot ma clear when he attempted to prsure the producer of a top prime-time show to add a gay uple as regulars.
Early the 1996 fall TV season DeGener began to tease the dience that her character on the show might clare herself a lbian, th beg the first TV seri to have a homosexual lead character.
It has published the tobgraphy of well-known transvte entertaer RuPl, as well as the book Growg Up Gay, aimed at the so-lled homosexual children of heterosexual parents.
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The thors of the guis, David Alport and Billy Kolber-Stuart, already produce an Out & About newsletter which alerts rears to the “sexual temperature” of certa gay statns.
Acrdg to USA Today, for example, the scriptn of one Palm Sprgs gay rort reads: Casual, clean, and small, wh as isky daytime atmosphere as one uld fd a legimate tablishment … nudy is enuraged and practiced by the management. Wh the wds of change blowg across Ameri’s moral landspe, Disney’s marketg Amerin – even many Christians – appear to be sleepg while the homosexual revolutn overthrows Juo-Christian culture. Sourc ed preparg this report clu:The Advote, 4/4/95; 4/18/95; 8/20/96; 3/4/97; Associated Prs, 6/29/95’ 12/30/96; Buzz, 5/95; Daily Variety, 5/15/94; 10/12/94; 1/27/95; 5/16/95; 9/13/95;11/3/95; 1/30/96; 1/10/97;1/20/97; 1/21/97; Enunters Magaze, 7/96; Entertament Weekly, 6/10/94; Fay Issu Alert, 3/30/95; Glamour, 8/9/94; Herald-Tribune (Sarasota, Florida), 10/8/95; Hollywood Supports Policy Statement; Hollywood Supports ter se; Los Angel Tim, 10/18/96; Newsweek, 2/20/95; New York Native, 6/12/95; 12/23/96; Orlando Weekly 6/6-12/96; Prs Enterprise, 12/28/93; Philalphia Gay News 7/5-11/96, Seventh Annual Gay & Lbian Day At the Magil Kgdom Inter se; Southern Voice 10/3/96; Spy, May/June, 95.
Other objectns films om Disney subsidiari clud Dogma (homosexualy), Chasg Amy (lbianism), Pulp Fictn (sex & vlence), Color of Night (sex), Clerks (graphic language), Chicks Whe Sat (lbianism), Lie Down wh Dogs (homosexualy), The Hoe of Y (ct). KCT USA FanPsalm 23:5Member sce Feb 201038911 postsPosted by KCT on 5/30/17 at 2:16 pm7527That's approximately 12 TIMES the percentage of the gay populatn the untry as a whole.