Disney has gotten trouble for paltry LGBTQ+ reprentatn the past - but Disney has actually had gay characters sce the begng.
Contents:
- GAY DAYS AT DISNEY – CELEBRATE PRI & LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH
- HAPPY PRI! THE ARE THE GAYT THGS DISNEY HISTORY
- WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
GAY DAYS AT DISNEY – CELEBRATE PRI & LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH
Disney’s ntroversial rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill unrsr the pany’s plited history wh the LGBTQ+ muny — a plex relatnship which Disney has played both champn and punchg bag. * disney lgbtq history *
Disney’s ntroversial rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill unrsr the pany’s plited history wh the LGBTQ+ muny — a plex relatnship which Disney has played both champn and punchg bag. Griff, who is also a profsor of film and media arts at Southern Methodist Universy, add that Disney has recently received a lot of publicy about var Disney films wh openly gay characters. Even though Disney’s re product of fay-iendly entertament hasn’t been blatant s reprentatn of gay characters, ABC — which is owned by Disney — has done so wh TV shows like “Morn Fay” and “Ellen.
In 1995, the Los Angel Tim reported on a new Disneyland Lbian and Gay Uned Employe group, or LEAGUE, that planned to anize around LGBTQ issu, host gut speakers, and plan Disney-related projects. Employe recently ma headl for their March 2022 walkout after former Disney CEO Bob Chapek's botched rponse to Florida's ntroversial Parental Rights law, which lims stctns about genr inty and sexual orientatn some classrooms, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" law by Democrats and LGBTQ rights first, Chapek did not outright nmn the bill, leadg to employee outrage, acrdg to NBC about Disney's donatns to Florida Republin policians also sparked ntroversy, Poli reported.
HAPPY PRI! THE ARE THE GAYT THGS DISNEY HISTORY
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. * disney lgbtq history *
] learship regardg the 'Don't Say Gay or Trans' bill have utterly failed to match the magnu of the threat to LGBTQIA+ safety reprented by this legislatn, " the employe said on a now-funct webse, acrdg to NBC walkout rulted a direct apology om Chapek to employe.
WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
From exclively gay moments "Bety and the Beast" to DeSantis and Disney World, Disney has a long and strange history wh the LGBTQ muny. * disney lgbtq history *
Acrdg to Out, Disney's often herald "first gay character" moments s films, wh some of the firsts datg back to an antelope uple 2016's "Zootopia" and LeFou dancg wh a man "The Bety and the Beast.
” 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.
Wh Pri Month jt around the rner, here’s everythg you n look forward to for Gay Days at Disney World and the Disneyland Rort. * disney lgbtq history *
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. 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.
In an addrs to staff durg Disney’s annual shareholr meetg on Friday, Chapek nfirmed that he had telephoned DeSantis to “exprs our disappotment and ncern” regardg the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.