Don't Say Gay bill: Court l on shareholr's su agast Disney

Contents:

• DISNEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ADMS TO ‘GAY AGENDA,’ ‘ADDG QUEERNS’ WHEREVER SHE COULD
• DISNEY EXEC PS TO ADVANCG ‘GAY AGENDA’ BY ‘ADDG QUEERNS’ TO SHOWS
• IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
• DISNEY EXPOSED: LEAKED VIOS SHOW OFFICIALS PHG LGBT AGENDA, SAYG DESANTIS WANTS TO 'ERASE' GAY KIDS
• WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
• STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS
• DISNEY'S GAY AGENDA: HOW DISNEY IS HELPG TO NORMALIZE THE GAY CHARACTER
• AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEY
• LEAKED VIOS EXPOSE DISNEY’S ‘NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA’
• LEAKED FOOTAGE: DISNEY PRODUCER BRAGS ABOUT PHG 'GAY AGENDA' CARTOONS, PRINT WANTS MANY MORE LGBT CHARACTERS
• 'NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA': DISNEY PH GAY TEEN ROMANCE MAJOR NEW ANIMATN

DISNEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ADMS TO ‘GAY AGENDA,’ ‘ADDG QUEERNS’ WHEREVER SHE COULD

Durg a staff meetg on Florida’s recent enactment of the Parental Rights Edutn bill, an executive producer at Disney said she was advancg a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” to sert queerns to children’s Ravene, executive producer for Disney Televisn Animatn, talked about how the stud’s treatment of her progrsive ias fied her negative expectatns of the pany, a vio obtaed by journalist Christopher Rufo.

DISNEY EXEC PS TO ADVANCG ‘GAY AGENDA’ BY ‘ADDG QUEERNS’ TO SHOWS

Ravene’s leaked ments me out Tuday, the day after Florida ernor Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill by crics, which prohibs the teachg of genr inty and sexual orientatn to children krgarten through third ’s learship nmned the legislatn and attempted to lobby DeSantis to kill , but he refed to budge.

A group of California Disney employe staged a walkout last week to prott the measure, wearg rabow lors, holdg signs wh pro-LGBTQ slogans, and shoutg, “Say Gay, ” as they marched down the ernor slammed the pany for s hypocrisy phg domtic social-jtice while nductg bs Cha wh the blsg of the Che Communist Party, a regime notor for human-rights ab relatg to the Uyghur Mlims, Hong Kong, Tibet, etc. \u201cSCOOP: I've obtaed vio om si Disney's all-hands meetg about the Florida parental rights bill, which executive producer Latoya Ravene says her team has implemented a "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" and is regularly "addg queerns" to children's programmg. 1648591064The nference ll was likely to ease ternal tensns at Disney amid cricism that the pany, a major employer Florida at s Walt Disney World theme parks, remaed ntral as the Florida Legislature bated the ntroversial "don't say gay" bill.

IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY

On Tuday, Christopher Rufo, known for his exposés on schools and rporatns unr the spell of cril race theory, released ternal Disney vios which those charge discs how they sert the “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” to children’s programmg.

DISNEY EXPOSED: LEAKED VIOS SHOW OFFICIALS PHG LGBT AGENDA, SAYG DESANTIS WANTS TO 'ERASE' GAY KIDS

”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. 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.

WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.

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.

“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. A group of California Disney employe staged a walkout last week to prott the measure, wearg rabow lors, holdg signs wh pro-LGBTQ slogans, and shoutg, “Say Gay, ” as they marched down the street. It's Not Jt Frozen: Most Disney Movi Are Pro-GayBy preachg acceptance and qutng genr, the pany's kids films offer a queer-studi crash urse.

Elsa hidg her ice-powers uld be read as a metaphor for the closet, the Osr-wng “Let Go” plays like a g-out anthem, and a character the film evok the qutn of whether homosexualy is a choice by quirg of Elsa’s powers, “born wh or cursed?

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

Through both s rporate practic and the ntent of s films, Disney for s has implemented the so-lled "gay agenda"—which is to say, helpg make the world a more acceptg start the most obv place: As a bs, Disney has long held a progrsive attu toward LGBT people. Gay pri events have been hosted at Disney World sce 1991, and the pany started offered s gay employe health surance benefs for their partners sce 1995, a cisn that wasn’t entirely popular back of the most poignant exampl of the pany’s tolerant atmosphere is the se of lyricist Howard Ashman, who was openly gay and died of AIDS 1991.

In this way, even though Disney films ually offer a tradnal happy endg wh a heterosexual marriage, the journey always volv rejectg parental and societal expectatns, and exercisg a “eedom to marry whomever you love” spir that is enmic to gay, many Disney romanc are exampl of “impossible sire, ” a trope that is ccial to the queer experience, as genr-studi theorist Heather Love argued Feelg Backward. In The Queer Child Kathryn Bond Stockton argu that queerns is not jt about homosexualy, but also about growg abnormal ways that mak the child an outst. "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 pany said a statement.

"GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HEREThe seven-page bill do not ban the word "gay" school settgs and do not ban sual discsns of topics relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty the classroom but has nohels been referred to as the "Don’t Say Gay Bill" by numero media outlets and Democrat policians. 'We have to be on guard a lot':Why safety first for so many LGBTQ travelers'I jt want to see more of ':The importance of seeg people like you while travelgHow did Gay Days get started?

DISNEY'S GAY AGENDA: HOW DISNEY IS HELPG TO NORMALIZE THE GAY CHARACTER

It has sce ballooned to an annual, multiday event, which draws upwards of 180, 000 people to the Orlando area om across the Fai:LGBTQ people need of stand- parents at weddgs, holidays fd 'fay' Facebook groupWhen are Gay Days 2023?

AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEY

Arguably the most proment part of Gay Days, red shirt daysare when participants wear red shirts to specific parks to celebrate their inty or support others. For stance, June 1 is a red shirt day at Disney's Animal Kgdom and SeaWorld Orlando and June 2 is a red shirt day at Disney's Hollywood Studs and Universal Islands of attends Gay Days?

Many Gay Days atten vis theme parks, but there are a host of other activi cludg popular pool parti, Drag Bgo, expos and more at the event's host hotel Orlando.

Some events are adults-only, but most are open to all ag, cludg the Miss GayDays pageant, which this year will be hosted by CoCo Montre, who peted on "RuPl's Drag Race, " and Miss GayDays 2019 Twila actually par the event to a fay rnn, specifilly "the fay that gets along rnn.

LEAKED VIOS EXPOSE DISNEY’S ‘NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA’

Given the polil climate the state and last year's enactment of what crics ll Florida'sDon't Say Gay law rtrictg discsns of sexual orientatn and genr inty primary schools, Clark said some people have asked him if this year's event would still happen. 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. DeSantis has been fdg wh Disney for more than a year after the pany spoke out agast the Parental Rights Edutn Act, dubbed by crics the "Don't Say Gay" bill, which rtricted discsns of sexualy and genr for certa gras public school classrooms.

LEAKED FOOTAGE: DISNEY PRODUCER BRAGS ABOUT PHG 'GAY AGENDA' CARTOONS, PRINT WANTS MANY MORE LGBT CHARACTERS

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 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. 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.

'NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA': DISNEY PH GAY TEEN ROMANCE MAJOR NEW ANIMATN

” 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 recent years, the Republin Party has largely chewed such language, appearg to make their peace wh the prence of gays, lbians and transgenr people public life.

For a long time, “gayns” was a stereotype that they phed onto villas to make them seem “eviler, ” or ed as ic relief, as was the se wh the origal 1991 versn of LeFou.