Iger fend Disney's right to speak out agast a ntroversial Florida bill dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by crics, a moved that sparked backlash om DeSantis.
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- STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS
DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
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"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.
STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS
Bob Iger also backed Disney's opposn to the so-lled Don't Say Gay law, a cisn that led to the nflict wh the Florida ernor last year. * disney gay news *
"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. 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.
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.
6 ln over the five-day holiday weekend spe beg herald as the first Disney movie to clu an openly gay ma character. However, those figur were rapidly, and signifintly, revised downwards when was unrstood how poorly the movie was performg wh wh other recent Disney animated movi cludg Lightyear (another disappotg box office flop), Strange World sought to crowbar progrsive to the film, cludg for the first time Disney’s history an openly gay ma character.