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• DISNEY FAC PAYBACK FOR CRICIZG FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW
• DISNEY WORLD DEFI RON DESANTIS BY HOSTG GAY RIGHTS SUMM FLORIDA
• LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
• DISNEY TO HOST GAY RIGHTS SUMM ORLANDO

DISNEY FAC PAYBACK FOR CRICIZG FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW

This legislatn has been dubbed by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, precisely bee that is what tends: prohibs class discsn about sexual orientatn and genr inty until stunts are at least ne years old. Ahead of the midterm electns November, Republins are g the word to promote the ia that the left is only ncerned wh social issu such as transgenr rights and cril race theory, and not the real problems of the nflict between Disney and DeSantis, who is leadg the polls the gubernatorial race and has already raised more than $100 ln for the reelectn mpaign, tensified early March, when Disney CEO Bob Chapek spoke out agast the “Don’t Say Gay” law followg prsure om pany workers.

By that pot, more than 150 pani had signed a letter opposg the explaed that he had lled DeSantis to exprs his “disappotment and ncern” about the law argug “ uld be ed to unfairly target gay lbian, nonbary and transgenr kids and fai. ”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.

DISNEY WORLD DEFI RON DESANTIS BY HOSTG GAY RIGHTS SUMM FLORIDA

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.

LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN

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.

DISNEY TO HOST GAY RIGHTS SUMM ORLANDO

Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invisn/APYet the “don’t say gay” bill wrong-footed Chapek, who succeed Bob Iger as chief executive Febary 2020.