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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- DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
- 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. "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.
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 *
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. However, one liberal movie reviewer said Disney would likely e homophobia to shield om the film’s obv shortgs.
“Disney is 100% gog to blame STRANGE WORLD’s evable bad box office on the fact that there’s an openly gay character the movie when realy, ’s gog to flop bee they didn’t market at all. Disney sued DeSantis late April, allegg the ernor waged a "targeted mpaign of ernment retaliatn" after the pany opposed a law crics ll "Don't Say Gay.
“So this goo is homosexual? ” Cary asks the execs, who adm that Disney has received “flak” for talkg up a character as gay the prs lead-up to a film and then “not really showg , ” a reference to a recurrg real-life Disney phenomenon. One recent example is the much-hyped “exclively gay moment” the live-actn Bety and the Beast, where straight actor Josh Gad, playg LeFou, danc wh a woman and then danc for two sends wh a man a group shot of a lot of people dancg.