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

Contents:

• AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• OPN: 3 THGS DISNEY SHOULD DO AFTER S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BLUNR
• AFTER ‘DON’T SAY GAY,’ A WEAKENED DISNEY HOP TO LIM THE DAMAGE
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ UNEXPECTED SHOWDOWN BETWEEN FLORIDA, DISNEY RPORATN
• STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS
• 'I LET YOU DOWN': DISNEY CEO APOLOGIZ FOR 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL RPONSE

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

On Monday, March 28, Florida ernor Flop DeRancid (Christian name Ron DeSantis) signed the state’s new “Don’t Say Gay” bill to law.

“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.

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

Stre um "Don't say gay"-Getz. Innerhalb von nur vier Tagen verabschiete r Kongrs e Getz, das Disney World Orlando seen Sonrstat entzieht - zur Strafe dafür, dass r Konzern sich gegen das "Don't say gay"-Getz ("Sag' nicht homosexuell") flehnt. 000 Disney-Marbeer hatten im März gegen Floridas n "Don't say gay-Getz" monstriert.

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.

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

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.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ UNEXPECTED SHOWDOWN BETWEEN FLORIDA, DISNEY RPORATN

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

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. 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.

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

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. '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.

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

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”). Ron DeSantis had abolished the district retaliatn for Disney’s opposn to a law that rtricts classroom stctn on LGBTQ inty – known to crics as “Don’t Say Gay. Six months after the “Don’t Say Gay” ntroversy, Disney has clearly been weakened by the fight while DeSantis’ profile as a nservative culture warrr has only grown.

The “Don’t Say Gay” battle began wh Steve Knox, a drag performer Omaha, Neb., who go by the stage name Nikki NuVogue. 11, he tweeted a Disney Pri logo and noted that the pany “sure has been quiet about Florida’s Don’t Say Gay Bill” — makg him among the very first to lk Disney to the issue.