Do the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Say That? - WSJ

Contents:

• VIO SHOWS OSR ISAAC SGG 'GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAYYYYY' RPONSE TO FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PASSED, ANTI-LGBTQ 'GROOMG' RHETORIC SURGED 400% ONLE
• AHF TV AD CAMPAIGN IMPLOR DISNEY TO OPPOSE ‘DON’T SAY GAY!’
• JOHN OLIVER BLASTS DISNEY’S RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL“MARGALIZED CREATORS HAVE MA BILLNS OF DOLLARS FOR DISNEY,” HE SAID ON LAST WEEK TONIGHT. “SHOULD EMBARRASS THEM THAT TOOK THEM UNTIL THIS WEEK TO REALIZE THAT THEY SHOULDN’T TAKE THAT MONEY AND E TO ACTIVELY UNRME THOSE CREATORS’ TERTS?”BY SAVANNAH WALSHMARCH 14, 2022COURTY OF HBOSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJOHN OLIVER DIDN’T MCE WORDS WHEN BLASTG DISNEY’S BUNGLED RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S NTROVERSIAL “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL ON LAST WEEK TONIGHT. CEO BOB CHAPEK’S IAL SILENCE ON THE DISCRIMATORY LEGISLATN, AS WELL AS THE STUD’S REPORTED FANCIAL BACKG FOR ALL OF THE BILL’S SPONSORS AND SPONSORS, HAS EARNED THE IRE OF MANY, CLUDG EMPLOYE AT PIXAR, A DISNEY SUBSIDIARY. THAT LIST ALSO CLUS OLIVER, WHO SAID ON SUNDAY’S EPISO THAT FLORIDA’S BILL IS “NOT ABOUT SEX AT ALL—’S ABOUT NYG THE EXISTENCE OF GAY PEOPLE.”THE LAST WEEK TONIGHT HOST BEGAN BY NOTG SOME OF THE RPORATNS THAT HAVE SUPPORTED SPONSORS OF THE BILL, CLUDG “AT&T, OUR SOON-TO-BE EX-BS-DADDY,” AND DISNEY, WHICH HAS REPORTEDLY DONATED NEARLY $300,000 TO FLORIDA POLICIANS WHO BACKED THE LEGISLATN, CLUDG GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS. “ARE THEY MORALLY BANKPT FOR [DONATG THE MONEY]? WHO’S TO SAY? I’LL TELL YOU: I AM. I AM TO SAY. AFTER ALL, I’M ZAZU,” OLIVER SAID, REFERENCG HIS VOICE ROLE DISNEY’S 2019 REMAKE OF THE LN KG. HE THEN CRICIZED CHAPEK FOR ASSERTG, A LL WH DISNEY SHAREHOLRS, THAT THE PANY DO NOT KNOW HOW POLIL NDIDAT WILL VOTE WHEN DONAT MONEY TO THEM. OLIVER LLED THIS STATEMENT “BULLSH,” ADDG, “IT IS ACTIVELY SULTG, BEE THAT’S JT NOT HOW DONATG WORKS. WHEN YOU DONATE MONEY, YOU GENERALLY KNOW WHAT THE RECIPIENT IS GOG TO DO WH . THAT IS WHY PEOPLE GIVE TO FEEDG AMERI AND NOT ‘FEEDG AMERI, OR MAYBE TAKE FOOD AWAY FROM AMERI.’”CHAPEK HAD TRIED TO EXCE DISNEY’S SILENCE ABOUT THE BILL BY PRAISG S ABILY TO TELL “DIVERSE STORI” PROJECTS LIKE ENNTO, BLACK PANTHER, AND MORN FAY. “IS THIS REALLY A PATH THAT YOU WANT TO GO DOWN, DISNEY?” OLIVER ASKED. “BEE YOU’RE THE SAME PANY THAT’S D BASILLY EVERY VILLA YOUR MOVI AS GAY, STEREOTYPED MORI TO A BREATHTAKG GREE, AND HAD SOMETHG LLED A WENCH CTN PLACE AT DISNEYLAND UNTIL 2018. SO, I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’VE HAD A 100 PERCENT -POSIVE EFFECT HERE.” (CHAPEK APOLOGIZED FOR HIS MISHANDLED RPONSE TO THE LEGISLATN A PANY-WI EMAIL ON FRIDAY.)OLIVER THEN POTED OUT THAT EARLIER THIS YEAR, BLACK PANTHER DIRECTOR RYAN COOGLER WAS FALSELY ACCED OF ROBBG A BANK AND HANDCUFFED BY POLICE WHILE ATTEMPTG TO WHDRAW MONEY OM HIS OWN BANK ACUNT. “MARGALIZED CREATORS HAVE MA BILLNS OF DOLLARS FOR DISNEY,” THE HOST EXPLAED. “NOW, SHOULD EMBARRASS THEM THAT TOOK THEM UNTIL THIS WEEK TO REALIZE THAT THEY SHOULDN’T TAKE THAT MONEY AND E TO ACTIVELY UNRME THOSE CREATORS’ TERTS? WHO’S TO SAY? I’LL TELL YOU: I AM. I’M ZAZU, REMEMBER? AND WHILE I HAVEN’T BEEN VED BACK FOR THE PREQUEL YET, AFTER TONIGHT I’VE GOT A PRETTY GOOD FEELG ABOUT .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— JERRY LEWIS’S COSTARS SPEAK OUT: “HE GRABBED ME. HE BEGAN TO FONDLE ME. I WAS DUMBSTCK”— INSI CHARLIZE THERON AND TOM HARDY’S MAD MAX WAR— INVENTG ANNA IS A “DANGERO” DISTORTN, SAYS RACHEL WILLIAMS— HOW THE GUN ALEC BALDW’S HANDS TURNED THE RT SET DEADLY— LOVE IS BLD SEASON TWO IS PEAK RED FLAG TELEVISN— PACHKO FIRST LOOK: AN EPIC TALE, AND A HISTORY-MAKG SHOW— VANY FAIR’S HOLLYWOOD ISSUE 2022: SEE THE FULL PORTFOL FEATURG NILE KIDMAN, KRISTEN STEWART, AND MORE— THE UGLY TTH OF HOW MOVIE SR ARE MA— KIRSTEN DUNST ON HER FIRST OSR NOMATN FOR THE POWER OF THE DOG— FROM THE ARCHIVE: WH FRIENDS LIKE THE— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHSAVANNAH WALSH
• NEW YORK CY LNCH AD MPAIGN NOUNCG FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW
• DO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL SAY THAT?
• DISNEY CEO SAYS HE WILL MEET WH RON DESANTIS TO OPPOSE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• DESANTIS-BACKED 'DONT SAY GAY' BILL SPARKS OUTRAGE

VIO SHOWS OSR ISAAC SGG 'GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAYYYYY' RPONSE TO FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Ron DeSantis's legislative agenda pos to LGBTQ+ 30-send ads feature pictns of what the anizatn says will happen if both the "don't say gay" bill and the Stop Woke Act are passed to law.

\u201c\ud83d\ua8 ALERT \ud83d\ua8 @GovRonDeSantis is fast-trackg the #DontSayGay bill, banng discsn of LGBTQ people or issu classrooms.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

"The "don't say gay" bill would ban discsn of LGBTQ+ topics primary gras.

For example, anyone, even someone who don't have a child schools, is able to object to library books and stctnal materials and ny accs to every stunt as a rult, " Smh Whe Hoe and Print Joe Bin nmned the "don't say gay" legislatn last week. Osr Isaac sang a "gay" jgle rponse to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill durg a prs junket earlier this week.

WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY

Marvel's "Moon Knight" star Osr Isaac had a simple rponse to Florida's ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn bill that activists have labeled the "Don't Say Gay" bill. "I gus my ment would be [starts sgg] gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gayyyyyy! But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial.

” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist. For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te.

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

The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn.

WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS

“The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certa polil amg of this suatn. ”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando. Demonstrators gather on the steps of the Florida Historic Capol Mm ont of the Florida State Capol March Tallahassee, Fla, prottg what opponents ll the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

Hoe Republins have troduced legislatn that some crics are scribg as a natnal "Don't Say Gay" bill – spired by the ntroversial Florida law that bans stctn on genr inty and sexual orientatn krgarten through third gra class. " Crics of the measure dubbed the Florida law "Don't Say Gay" and argue that s tent is to margalize LGBTQ people and their fai. A feral 'Don't Say Gay or Trans' bill...

AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PASSED, ANTI-LGBTQ 'GROOMG' RHETORIC SURGED 400% ONLE

Activist Er Reed, who tracks anti-transgenr legislatn, argu that the parison to a "Don't Say Gay" bill mimiz the potential effects of this proposed legislatn. "Don't Say Gay/Trans was foced on 'classroom stctn' which was bad enough, " she wrote on Twter. 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.

AHF TV AD CAMPAIGN IMPLOR DISNEY TO OPPOSE ‘DON’T SAY GAY!’

"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.

'I am eply gay': Kate McKnon mocks Florida's ntroversial bill. In their qut to bee the party of “parental rights, ” Republins Florida and other stat are attemptg to muzzle discsn of gay and civil rights school.

JOHN OLIVER BLASTS DISNEY’S RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL“MARGALIZED CREATORS HAVE MA BILLNS OF DOLLARS FOR DISNEY,” HE SAID ON LAST WEEK TONIGHT. “SHOULD EMBARRASS THEM THAT TOOK THEM UNTIL THIS WEEK TO REALIZE THAT THEY SHOULDN’T TAKE THAT MONEY AND E TO ACTIVELY UNRME THOSE CREATORS’ TERTS?”BY SAVANNAH WALSHMARCH 14, 2022COURTY OF HBOSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJOHN OLIVER DIDN’T MCE WORDS WHEN BLASTG DISNEY’S BUNGLED RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S NTROVERSIAL “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL ON LAST WEEK TONIGHT. CEO BOB CHAPEK’S IAL SILENCE ON THE DISCRIMATORY LEGISLATN, AS WELL AS THE STUD’S REPORTED FANCIAL BACKG FOR ALL OF THE BILL’S SPONSORS AND SPONSORS, HAS EARNED THE IRE OF MANY, CLUDG EMPLOYE AT PIXAR, A DISNEY SUBSIDIARY. THAT LIST ALSO CLUS OLIVER, WHO SAID ON SUNDAY’S EPISO THAT FLORIDA’S BILL IS “NOT ABOUT SEX AT ALL—’S ABOUT NYG THE EXISTENCE OF GAY PEOPLE.”THE LAST WEEK TONIGHT HOST BEGAN BY NOTG SOME OF THE RPORATNS THAT HAVE SUPPORTED SPONSORS OF THE BILL, CLUDG “AT&T, OUR SOON-TO-BE EX-BS-DADDY,” AND DISNEY, WHICH HAS REPORTEDLY DONATED NEARLY $300,000 TO FLORIDA POLICIANS WHO BACKED THE LEGISLATN, CLUDG GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS. “ARE THEY MORALLY BANKPT FOR [DONATG THE MONEY]? WHO’S TO SAY? I’LL TELL YOU: I AM. I AM TO SAY. AFTER ALL, I’M ZAZU,” OLIVER SAID, REFERENCG HIS VOICE ROLE DISNEY’S 2019 REMAKE OF THE LN KG. HE THEN CRICIZED CHAPEK FOR ASSERTG, A LL WH DISNEY SHAREHOLRS, THAT THE PANY DO NOT KNOW HOW POLIL NDIDAT WILL VOTE WHEN DONAT MONEY TO THEM. OLIVER LLED THIS STATEMENT “BULLSH,” ADDG, “IT IS ACTIVELY SULTG, BEE THAT’S JT NOT HOW DONATG WORKS. WHEN YOU DONATE MONEY, YOU GENERALLY KNOW WHAT THE RECIPIENT IS GOG TO DO WH . THAT IS WHY PEOPLE GIVE TO FEEDG AMERI AND NOT ‘FEEDG AMERI, OR MAYBE TAKE FOOD AWAY FROM AMERI.’”CHAPEK HAD TRIED TO EXCE DISNEY’S SILENCE ABOUT THE BILL BY PRAISG S ABILY TO TELL “DIVERSE STORI” PROJECTS LIKE ENNTO, BLACK PANTHER, AND MORN FAY. “IS THIS REALLY A PATH THAT YOU WANT TO GO DOWN, DISNEY?” OLIVER ASKED. “BEE YOU’RE THE SAME PANY THAT’S D BASILLY EVERY VILLA YOUR MOVI AS GAY, STEREOTYPED MORI TO A BREATHTAKG GREE, AND HAD SOMETHG LLED A WENCH CTN PLACE AT DISNEYLAND UNTIL 2018. SO, I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’VE HAD A 100 PERCENT -POSIVE EFFECT HERE.” (CHAPEK APOLOGIZED FOR HIS MISHANDLED RPONSE TO THE LEGISLATN A PANY-WI EMAIL ON FRIDAY.)OLIVER THEN POTED OUT THAT EARLIER THIS YEAR, BLACK PANTHER DIRECTOR RYAN COOGLER WAS FALSELY ACCED OF ROBBG A BANK AND HANDCUFFED BY POLICE WHILE ATTEMPTG TO WHDRAW MONEY OM HIS OWN BANK ACUNT. “MARGALIZED CREATORS HAVE MA BILLNS OF DOLLARS FOR DISNEY,” THE HOST EXPLAED. “NOW, SHOULD EMBARRASS THEM THAT TOOK THEM UNTIL THIS WEEK TO REALIZE THAT THEY SHOULDN’T TAKE THAT MONEY AND E TO ACTIVELY UNRME THOSE CREATORS’ TERTS? WHO’S TO SAY? I’LL TELL YOU: I AM. I’M ZAZU, REMEMBER? AND WHILE I HAVEN’T BEEN VED BACK FOR THE PREQUEL YET, AFTER TONIGHT I’VE GOT A PRETTY GOOD FEELG ABOUT .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— JERRY LEWIS’S COSTARS SPEAK OUT: “HE GRABBED ME. HE BEGAN TO FONDLE ME. I WAS DUMBSTCK”— INSI CHARLIZE THERON AND TOM HARDY’S MAD MAX WAR— INVENTG ANNA IS A “DANGERO” DISTORTN, SAYS RACHEL WILLIAMS— HOW THE GUN ALEC BALDW’S HANDS TURNED THE RT SET DEADLY— LOVE IS BLD SEASON TWO IS PEAK RED FLAG TELEVISN— PACHKO FIRST LOOK: AN EPIC TALE, AND A HISTORY-MAKG SHOW— VANY FAIR’S HOLLYWOOD ISSUE 2022: SEE THE FULL PORTFOL FEATURG NILE KIDMAN, KRISTEN STEWART, AND MORE— THE UGLY TTH OF HOW MOVIE SR ARE MA— KIRSTEN DUNST ON HER FIRST OSR NOMATN FOR THE POWER OF THE DOG— FROM THE ARCHIVE: WH FRIENDS LIKE THE— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHSAVANNAH WALSH

Ron DeSantis signed – tled “Parental Rights Edutn” – has been dubbed by crics the “Don’t Say Gay” bill bee seeks to ban discsn of genr and sexualy issu wh younger stunts. What has been dubbed by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill was the subject of an tense opposn mpaign.

Earlier this month, DeSantis grew agated at the Florida Strawberry Ftival when a reporter asked him about the phrase – “Don’t Say Gay” – that crics have applied to the bill. Today, we have an analysis of a piece of tn legislatn Florida that crics have referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” we have news of our own: We’re makg some chang to the Edutn Briefg.

NEW YORK CY LNCH AD MPAIGN NOUNCG FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW

See below for Asenc-Rhe/Tampa Bay Tim, via Associated PrsA close read of ‘Don’t Say Gay’Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to sign Hoe Bill 1557, a proposed law that supporters ll the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill and opponents refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” lleague Dana Goldste has done a close readg of the bill self, which is about much more than gay rights. Sentence has earned the bill the “Don’t Say Gay” nickname:L 97-101: Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state impact is clear enough: Instctn on genr and sexualy would be nstraed all gras.

DO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL SAY THAT?

That uld disurage a teacher om speakg about gay fai wh the whole class, even if some stunts have gay bill also targets mental health and unselg servic — a place where stunts often have difficult nversatns about genr inty and sexualy, pecially if they stggle to talk about those nversatns at as Florida revis s school unselg standards, adopted 2010, which affirm genr and sexual diversy unselg. Anti-LGBTQ hate surged onle followg the passage of a Florida law that lims classroom stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty, a new report particular surge volv rhetoric implyg that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people are “groomg” children and clus such slurs as “groomer, ” “pedophile” and “predator” relatn to the LGBTQ muny.

The month after the Florida Senate passed the Parental Rights Edutn bill, or what crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, on March 8, tweets mentng the LGBTQ muny alongsi the slurs creased 406%, acrdg to the report, which was nducted by the LGBTQ advocy group Human Rights Campaign and the nonprof Center for Counterg Digal law, which took effect July 1, bans stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty “ krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards.

DISNEY CEO SAYS HE WILL MEET WH RON DESANTIS TO OPPOSE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

In April, a gay uple said a man on an Amtrak tra lled them “rapists” and “pedophil” ont of their children. & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AHF is rollg out a new TV ad mpaign the greater Orlando area implorg the Walt Disney Company to speak out publicly and loudly opposn to the hateful “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn pendg Florida (FL’s HB1557 and SB1834). In rponse to Florida’s “Don’t’ Say Gay” bill targetg LGBTQ+ youth, their fai, teachers and school unselors that is pendg the Florida legislature.

ZOOM PRESS TELECONFERENCE: Disney and “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn.

But Disney has given money to every sgle sponsor and -sponsor of this year’s famo 'Don’t Say Gay' bill. AHF’s TV spot urg Disney to speak out and fight back agast discrimatn by publicly opposg the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, ncludg “… bee the happit place the world mt have a place for every child. FL & CA “Don’t Say Gay” Disney Ralli Thurs., March 3 at 10:00 am Orlando at and at Disney HQ Burbank.

DESANTIS-BACKED 'DONT SAY GAY' BILL SPARKS OUTRAGE

ORLANDO, FL: @ WALT DISNEY COMPANY "Don’t Say Gay" RALLY. Advot to mand Disney to SPEAK OUT now agast "Don’t Say Gay" legislatn pendg Florida.