To prott the Walt Disney Co.'s rponse to Florida's ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn law, which crics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill, a number of pany employe staged a walkout on Tuday.
Contents:
- UP TO 40% OF DISNEY EMPLOYE ARE GAY?
- DISNEY WORKERS WALK OUT OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL AS PANY SENDS MIXED MSAG
- WHAT PERCENT OF DISNEY EMPLOYE ARE GAY?
- SOME DISNEY WORKERS WALK OFF THE JOB OVER PANY'S RPONSE TO FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
UP TO 40% OF DISNEY EMPLOYE ARE GAY?
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I thk that timate is a b high but when I was a CM there were several gay st members. I'm not gay, but I have serveral fay members who are, and who have had a hard time fdg or keepg a job. 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 WORKERS WALK OUT OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL AS PANY SENDS MIXED MSAG
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. * percentage of gay disney employees *
Earlier this month, Disney CEO Bob Chapek spoke out about — but did not nmn — Florida’s ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn bill, which crics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay. 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 fact, “Ellen” had the first gay lead character on TV 1997. Disney has historilly had many gay employe, too.
WHAT PERCENT OF DISNEY EMPLOYE ARE GAY?
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Acrdg to a Disney official, there had been no terptns any operatns as of midday employed 190, 000 workers last October, wh roughly three-quarters workg s theme parks bate forced the pany to a balancg act between the expectatns of a diverse workforce and mands om an creasgly polarized, policized one si are LGBTQ advot and Disney employe llg for the walkout prott of CEO Bob Chapek’s slow rponse publicly cricizg Florida legislatn that opponents dubbed as the “don’t say gay” bill.
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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.
SOME DISNEY WORKERS WALK OFF THE JOB OVER PANY'S RPONSE TO FLORIDA'S '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.