Disney employe walk out over rponse to so-lled 'Don't Say Gay' bill : NPR

Contents:

• DISNEY SPOFF WILL NOW FEATURE GAY KISS AFTER LGBT EMPLOYEE OUTRAGE
• DISNEY RELEAS STATEMENT RPONSE TO CRICISM OVER DONATNS TO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ SPONSORS
• 'I LET YOU DOWN': DISNEY CEO APOLOGIZ FOR 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL RPONSE
• DISNEY WORKERS WALK OUT OVER THE PANY'S RPONSE TO SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

DISNEY SPOFF WILL NOW FEATURE GAY KISS AFTER LGBT EMPLOYEE OUTRAGE

A spoff om the popular Disney Pixar children’s film “Toy Story” will reportedly clu a gay kiss shared by two animated female characters. The report followg an uproar om LGBTQ employe who ripped Walt Disney Company executiv for censorg “overtly gay affectn” a letter that was part of a prott for the pany not takg a firmer stance agast Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay Bill” that would prohib teachg Krgarten through third-gra children about “sexual orientatn” or “genr inty. Generally speakg, G or PG-rated animated films such as “Lightyear” have remaed mostly off-lims to portrayg gay or lbian relatnships, although adult films as early as “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” 1999 ntaed blatant LGBTQ ntent.

But the employe vehemently disagreed, claimg, “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. BREAKING: Today’s statement by @Disney CEO Bob Chapek agast the “Don’t Say Gay” bill has failed to satisfy many Disney employe. Although the gay rights activists received only a “kiss” for their efforts, many hoped the scene would play a bigger role the children’s movie.

DISNEY RELEAS STATEMENT RPONSE TO CRICISM OVER DONATNS TO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ SPONSORS

Disney has released a statement addrsg the “Don’t Say Gay” bill prented by Florida legislatn. Several years ago, they chose Southern California partly for the parks and beme Magic Key passholrs so they uld vis Plows' ardor for Disney was recently shaken by the pany's rponse to what crics have dubbed Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, which would rtrict speech on sexual orientatn and genr inty  public school classrooms. DISNEY CEO (FINALLY) SPEAKS OUT:But where's the gay Disney fairy tale?

'DON'T SAY GAY':Lawmaker behd Florida bill pulls amendment requirg schools to out stunts"Right now, I'm lookg at my Disneyland lanyard, which has Pri ps all over , " she said Tuday. Disney's rponse to Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' billWalt Disney Co.

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

She started an onle petn mandg Disney publicly "nounce the 'Don't Say Gay' bill and vow not to fund the sponsors aga. "Dena lled Wednday's show of support "a ltle too late, " while notg Disney is quick to "take our money" when to "Pri, Gay Days and all the merchandise they have surroundg Pri Month. The full-sle walkout me after Disney employe planned a seri of smaller walkouts durg their 15-mute breaks to urge the pany to take a stronger stance agast the Parental Rights Edutn legislatn, which advot have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

"The recent statements by The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) learship regardg the Florida legislature's recent 'Don't Say Gay' bill have utterly failed to match the magnu of the threat to LGBTQIA+ safety reprented by this legislatn, " an open letter by Disney employe reads. ”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.

DISNEY WORKERS WALK OUT OVER THE PANY'S RPONSE TO SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

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.

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.