Disney now says is opposed to Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill : NPR

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• DISNEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ADMS TO ‘GAY AGENDA,’ ‘ADDG QUEERNS’ WHEREVER SHE COULD
• GEE KALOGRIDIS BE WALT DISNEY WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
• DISNEY EXEC VOWS MORE GAY CHARACTERS AMID HUGE CLIVY PH
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• DISNEY CEO APOLOGIZ TO EMPLOYE FOR RPONSE TO FLORIDA 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• DISNEY CEO SAYS PANY OPPOS 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FLORIDA, SEEKS MEETG WH DESANTIS
• DISNEY EXEC PS TO ADVANCG ‘GAY AGENDA’ BY ‘ADDG QUEERNS’ TO SHOWS
• COLUMN: ON FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL, DISNEY SETS A NEW STANDARD FOR RPORATE WARDICE
• DISNEY EXPOSED: LEAKED VIOS SHOW OFFICIALS PHG LGBT AGENDA, SAYG DESANTIS WANTS TO 'ERASE' GAY KIDS
• AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

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. To my not-at-all-secret gay agenda, ” she said.

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.

GEE KALOGRIDIS BE WALT DISNEY WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

Disney General Entertament print Karey Burke recently pledged that characters upg projects will reprent the LGBTQ+ muny or mori, Meaww ’s vow amid the reported ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill passed by the Senate of Florida, banng teachers om givg lsons on sexual orientatn and genr inty to children unr the age of has sce addrsed the issue wh the bill, openg up about her own experience as an LGBTQ+ ally and motherg two children who are part of the muny. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisfo) March 29, 2022 View Tweet Learn more about Karey BurkeBurke has ma her stance on the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill clear, and addrsed why LGBTQ+ reprentatn upg projects means so much to her, but what else do we know about her?

Walt Disney World has, of urse, long urted a gay followg. But now, the Orlando-based rort is takg the next step by welg s first openly gay print. As South Florida Gay News reports, the 59-year-old Kalogridis has been wh the Walt Disney Company sce 1971, when he land a job bsg tabl at Disney's Contemporary Rort on the Orlando property.

DISNEY EXEC VOWS MORE GAY CHARACTERS AMID HUGE CLIVY PH

Burke said she supports featurg “many, many” characters who are LGBTQIA, which stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (or qutng), tersex, and asexual (or alli). Disney has reportedly restated a gay kiss s upg “Toy Story” spoff, “Lightyear.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters our stori and yet we don’t have enough leads and narrativ which gay characters jt get to be characters and not have to be about gay stori. Disney’s diversy plan amid the ntroversy over Florida’s new “Don’t Say Gay” law. The statement me after some Disney employe staged walkouts and held protts agast the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that’s now law the Sunshe State.

“Never once while watchg a Disney movie or any other rtoon dis I ever thk, I wonr if they’re gay.

DISNEY CEO APOLOGIZ TO EMPLOYE FOR RPONSE TO FLORIDA 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

The drawn-out nflict began after Florida passed a bill — emed by crics as “Don’t Say Gay” — March 2022 that rtricted discsn of LGBTQ topics public schools.

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

"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.

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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.

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

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.

COLUMN: ON FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL, DISNEY SETS A NEW STANDARD FOR RPORATE WARDICE

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.

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

“Homosexuals nnot reproduce, so they mt rec, ” she said.

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

”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. Disney will pse all polil donatns Florida after tense cricism over how the media giant rpond to state legislatn that would lim discsn of LGBTQ issu schools, CEO Bob Chapek said a letter to employe also apologized to his lleagu for not takg a more forceful stand agast what activists ll the "Don't Say Gay" legislatn Florida.

"Disney has faced tense public scty and ternal cricism over how rpond to the "Don't Say Gay" legislatn, wh some fltg Chapek for sayg a memo that the pany n make the "biggt impact" by "creatg a more clive world through the spirg ntent we produce. Bob Chapek, DisneyJeff Grchen | MediaNews Group | Orange County Register via Getty ImagThe Walt Disney Company is now publicly opposg Florida's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" Wednday, CEO Bob Chapek addrsed the pany's stance on the bill and acknowledged that s origal approach "didn't get the job done.