Disney's LGBTQ history is mixed. The pany has "queer-d" characters movi and Gay Days at parks but stumbled on the "Don't Say Gay" bill.
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- GAY DAYS AT DISNEY – CELEBRATE PRI & LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH
- THE HISTORY OF WALT DISNEY WORLD’S “GAY DAYS”
GAY DAYS AT DISNEY – CELEBRATE PRI & LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH
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” The vtment LGBTQ+ fans feel Disney was tted earlier this month when the pany’s CEO, Bob Chapek, fend s reported $250, 000 donatns to backers of Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill. S., said would no longer accept money om Disney until took “meangful actn” to stop the “Don’t Say Gay” bill om beg law.
Pixar employe wrote their own letter last week, accg s parent pany of guttg “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn” om s films.
” Acrdg to the tech news se Gizmodo, at least eight films have been touted as featurg the stud’s “first” gay character, cludg Onward, Zootopia, and Jungle Cise. Although out gay director Bill Condon hyped Disney’s first “exclively gay moment” leadg up to the release of the live-actn Bety and the Beast remake 2017, the eventual scene took mere sends of screen time. (Mark Hal had prevly claimed that Le Skywalker is gay if the viewer wants him to be.
THE HISTORY OF WALT DISNEY WORLD’S “GAY DAYS”
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Read More: I Know What It’s Like to Be a Florida Teen Who Can’t Say Gay. When Gay Days, one of Disney World’s most popular unofficial events, lnched 1991, the park hung signs outsi the entrance warng heterosexual visors that “members of the gay muny have chosen to vis the Magic Kgdom today their regnn of Gay and Lbian Pri Month, ” acrdg to the New York Tim. Eddie Shapiro, who -found an offshoot of the event at Disneyland 1998, tells TIME that Disney employe ed to hand out “pla whe shirts” to straight ctomers who accintally wore red, the lor Gay Days participants e to intify one another.