Disney Hop to Lim the Damage After 'Don't Say Gay' - Variety

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• DISNEY WORKERS WALK OUT OVER THE PANY'S RPONSE TO SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• OPN: 3 THGS DISNEY SHOULD DO AFTER S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BLUNR
• 'I LET YOU DOWN': DISNEY CEO APOLOGIZ FOR 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL RPONSE
• DISNEY VOWS TO HELP REPEAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW, SAYS FLORIDA GOV. DESANTIS SHOULDN'T HAVE SIGNED
• AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• DISNEY EMPLOYE STAGE WALKOUT TO MAND ACTN AGAST 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• DISNEY TAK HEAT OVER PUBLIC STANCE ON FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW, BUT NBCUNIVERSAL AND OTHER STUDS KEEP AWAY THE FRAY
• AFTER ‘DON’T SAY GAY,’ A WEAKENED DISNEY HOP TO LIM THE DAMAGE

DISNEY WORKERS WALK OUT OVER THE PANY'S RPONSE TO SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

The full-sle walkout me after Disney employe planned a seri of smaller walkouts durg their 15-mute breaks to urge the pany to take a stronger stance agast the Parental Rights Edutn legislatn, which advot have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

"The recent statements by The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) learship regardg the Florida legislature's recent 'Don't Say Gay' bill have utterly failed to match the magnu of the threat to LGBTQIA+ safety reprented by this legislatn, " an open letter by Disney employe reads. 'I am eply gay': Kate McKnon mocks Florida's ntroversial bill. First, experienced backlash over s failure to nmn Florida’s new “Don’t Say Gay” law, which will ban schools om teachg stunts the third gra and below about genr inty and sexual orientatn.

Disney should sle back the extent of s bs Florida until the “Don’t Say Gay” law is repealed. The pany should officially regnize and facilate the annual “Gay Days” events that happen at Walt Disney World and Disneyland.

OPN: 3 THGS DISNEY SHOULD DO AFTER S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BLUNR

Disney films still clu “gay ntent” that uld easily be missed (LeFou glancg at another man the live-actn versn of “Bety and the Beast, ” and a female uple embracg the background of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”).

”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.

'I LET YOU DOWN': DISNEY CEO APOLOGIZ FOR 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL RPONSE

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.

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

Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invisn/APYet the “don’t say gay” bill wrong-footed Chapek, who succeed Bob Iger as chief executive Febary 2020. 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. 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. Several years ago, they chose Southern California partly for the parks and beme Magic Key passholrs so they uld vis Plows' ardor for Disney was recently shaken by the pany's rponse to what crics have dubbed Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, which would rtrict speech on sexual orientatn and genr inty  public school classrooms.

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

DISNEY CEO (FINALLY) SPEAKS OUT:But where's the gay Disney fairy tale? 'DON'T SAY GAY':Lawmaker behd Florida bill pulls amendment requirg schools to out stunts"Right now, I'm lookg at my Disneyland lanyard, which has Pri ps all over , " she said Tuday. Disney's rponse to Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' billWalt Disney Co.

She started an onle petn mandg Disney publicly "nounce the 'Don't Say Gay' bill and vow not to fund the sponsors aga. "Dena lled Wednday's show of support "a ltle too late, " while notg Disney is quick to "take our money" when to "Pri, Gay Days and all the merchandise they have surroundg Pri Month.

Ron DeSantis signed Florida's so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill to law on Monday, the Walt Disney Company nmned the legislatn and vowed to help have repealed. "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.

DISNEY EMPLOYE STAGE WALKOUT TO MAND ACTN AGAST 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

"Walt Disney employe and monstrators durg a rally agast the Florida "Don't Say Gay" bill at Griffh Park Glendale, California, U.

DISNEY TAK HEAT OVER PUBLIC STANCE ON FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW, BUT NBCUNIVERSAL AND OTHER STUDS KEEP AWAY THE FRAY

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.

AFTER ‘DON’T SAY GAY,’ A WEAKENED DISNEY HOP TO LIM THE DAMAGE

"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.