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

Contents:

• AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY FALLY RELEAS STATEMENT ON "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL CONTROVERSY - INSI THE MAGIC
• AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• DISNEY CEO SAYS PANY OPPOS 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FLORIDA, SEEKS MEETG WH DESANTIS
• DISNEY’S “DON’T SAY GAY” STANCE WASN’T THE FIRST TIME BETRAYED S LGBTQ FANS
• STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS
• COLUMN: ON FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL, DISNEY SETS A NEW STANDARD FOR RPORATE WARDICE
• DISNEY WORKERS WALK OUT OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL AS PANY SENDS MIXED MSAG
• DISNEY VOWS TO HELP REPEAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW, SAYS FLORIDA GOV. DESANTIS SHOULDN'T HAVE SIGNED

AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY FALLY RELEAS STATEMENT ON "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL CONTROVERSY - INSI THE MAGIC

While the Walt Disney Company preach clivy wh s Disney Parks and entertament anchis, the Hoe of Moe has e unr fire recently for fundg policians who have passed a bill rtrictg nversatns around genr and LGBTQ+ inti schools, monly ed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the Florida Hoe. On the ntroversial Florida bill, which was passed at the end of Febary and lloquially dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the NPR stat:. When was revealed that Disney had backed the sponsors and -sponsors of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, as reported by the Orlando Sentel, sparked outrage among the LGBTQ+ muny and their Alli.

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

The polician ntroversially pared children wh same-sex parents to children raised by alholics and abers, sayg he nnot “affirm homosexualy. This week protts broke out to support gay rights, retaliatg to Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s seemg disregard of the matter when he remaed silent, meanwhile, Print Joe Bin and former Disney CEO, Bob Iger, both rpond to the Florida bill. NEW: Disney rponds to protts and lls for actn surroundg Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill, sayg part, “The biggt impact we n have creatg a more clive world is through the spirg ntent we produce.

NEW: Disney rponds to protts and lls for actn surroundg Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Bill, sayg part, "The biggt impact we n have creatg a more clive world is through the spirg ntent we produce. The pany’s actns beg somewhat moarily volved the “Don’t Say Gay” bill is a far cry om what the Moe Hoe preached jt last year. It is surprisg that a large rporatn, and one which seemgly celebrat LGBTQ+ peopl wh events like Disney Gay Days, and Pri celebratns and merchandise, would not directly addrs this issue of s dub legislative affairs.

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

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. "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. On Sunday, before the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill passed the state Senate, Siemon posted an impassned vio plea llg for Disney to say the legislatn is wrong. Siemon creds one of his middle school teachers for helpg him unrstand that was OK to be gay.

DISNEY’S “DON’T SAY GAY” STANCE WASN’T THE FIRST TIME BETRAYED S LGBTQ FANS

Siemon implored the pany to stop supportg those policians, endg wh the words, "Disney, please say gay. 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.

Florida passed s "Don't Say Gay" bill earlier this week, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty public schools for krgarten through third gra.

DeSantis this morng to exprs our disappotment and ncern that if legislatn be law uld be ed to unfairly target gay, lbian, nonbary and transgenr kids and fai, " Chapek said. Over the last few s, no pany has done a better job at pturg fans across seemgly every kd of mographic — all rac, all religns, young and old, straight and gay — all while slyly beg the most powerful entertament enty on the pla.

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

Over the past week, the entertament juggernt flipped and flopped an attempt to reassure s employe and s massive fanbase about s posn on Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

After an open letter om LGBTQ Pixar staff and their alli alleged that Disney had actively scbbed “overtly gay affectn” and queer reprentatn om their movi, Chapek emailed employe that the pany would halt all polil donatns Florida on Friday, and donate to groups fightg siar legislatn other stat. How Disney Gays feel about the pany and s “Don’t Say Gay” stance. He was also gay and died of AIDS 1991.

Berg self-intifi as a “Disney Gay, ” havg worked at the Disney Store the Mall of Ameri. Dpe the existence of sgg flatware and an unrsea kgdom where the buff mermaid sea kg’s favore thg is mils featurg his many dghters, there are no actual gay characters Bety and the Beast or The Ltle Mermaid.

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

“Ltle Mermaid had songs wrten by a gay person the late ’80s. Sce the ceptn of “Gay Days” (a day where LGBTQ people go en masse to a Disney theme park) the 1990s, Disney has passively supported the unofficially anized celebratns. Berg explaed that the small actns have allowed queer fans to fet about how Disneyland once had a policy that prohibed same-sex dancg, ultimately stck down by the Orange County Superr Court 1984, or that a gay executive filed a sexual orientatn discrimatn su agast the pany 2021.

Disney’s stance on “Don’t Say Gay” and s alignment wh Florida’s anti-gay lawmakers was a remr that the pany isn’t as progrsive as says is.

“Listen, if you were emotnally moved any way by WandaVisn, you’re the same pot wh the rt of Disney Gays, ” Sass said, summarizg how hard is for anyone upset about the “Don’t Say Gay” bill to avoid Disney’s properti. There hasn’t been nearly as much nversatn about how “Don’t Say Gay” would affect Universal Studs and s Wizardg World of Harry Potter, which also operate Orlando. “I would like to see Disney be overtly gay and be overtly vol about their support for s LGBTQ fans and employe, ” said Garcia, explag that anythg but ser actn jt seems like a PR move.

DISNEY WORKERS WALK OUT OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL AS PANY SENDS MIXED MSAG

Garcia, who says he is “hella gay” and has over 95, 000 followers on Instagram, promot Disney’s theme parks on social media. He has also posted extensively about his displeasure wh Disney’s “Don’t Say Gay” stance. "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.

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

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.

Crics labeled as the “Don’t Say Gay” law. It has bee creasgly clear that relyg on Amerin rporatns for moral learship is a mug’s Walt Disney Company has jt ma self Exhib issue is a btal asslt on the teachg of genr issu formally tled the Parental Rights Edutn bill, but dubbed by s crics the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

” The tth is, Disney lets s money talk plenty loudly when wants to protect s rporate beg wh, as Stt Maxwell of the Orlando Sentel reported last month, the pany has given mpaign money to “every sgle sponsor and -sponsor” of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Among them is the measure’s Senate sponsor, Republin Dennis Baxley, a nsistent supporter of antigay measure the legislature, cludg laws to prohib adoptns by gay upl. Over the last two years, acrdg to Judd Legum of the Popular Informatn webse, the pany has donated $197, 126 to Hoe members and Senate mtee members who have already voted favor of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.