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In March 2022, the Florida Senate passed the ‘Parental Rights in Education’ bill for the declare, or as activists own called it, the ‘Don’t Speak Gay’ bill.
The law bears major similarities with Margaret Thatcher’s infamous Section 28 in the UK (introduced in 1988) and forbids schools from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity. Whilst Section 28 was thankfully repealed in 2003, this recent legislation is a generate of concern for LGBTQIA+ communities due to the impact it would hold on queer youth.
President Joe Biden condemned the statute, and White House Push Secretary Jen Psaki described it as a direct objective on vulnerable children. However, The Walt Disney Organization, which is very prominent in Florida, refused to condemn the law. Accompanying the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ announcement, CEO Bob Chapek sent an email to employees acknowledging the ‘inspiring’ content that Disney had produced, and promising to continue creating diverse content. Yet, it subsequently came to bright that Disney had partially funded Republican state lawmakers through political donations to the party, including GOP Governor Ron DeSantis who had proposed t
Disney's LGBTQ history is complicated
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- Disney has a long and complicated history with the LGBTQ community.
- The company's call out of Florida's "Don't Speak Gay" bill sparked a feud with Gov. Ron DeSantis.
- Photos show the evolution of Disney's LGBTQ stances, events, and representation.
Disney's preceding years were defined by American idealism and conservative values.
In 1923, brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney founded The Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, a show house creating animated shorts of soon-to-be iconic characters such as Mickey Mouse. Those early works often followed the plight and success of the "common man," appealing to Excellent Depression-era audiences, Smithsonian Magazine reported.
By World War II, Disney became a pillar of America's war propaganda efforts, according to The National WWII Museum of New Orleans. Characters became domesticated names and representatio
SUMMARY
Considering the quality, quantity, and diversity of films distributed under the Walt Disney Company and its labels, GLAAD has given The Walt Disney Company a GOOD grade.
Walt Disney Studios included LGBTQ characters in all five of its Disney theatrical releases. While the LGBTQ representation in some films was groundbreaking in kids and family spaces, such as Lightyear and Strange World, other films’ inclusion was more minor, such as Healer Strange and the Multiverse of Madness and other Marvel properties. Inclusion in Disney’s other theatrical labels, Searchlight and 20th Century, was minimal.
As for streaming, Hulu delivered outstanding LGBTQ-centric stories with romantic comedies Fire Island and Crush,in addition to casual inclusion in several other films including Darby and the Dead and Fresh. Disney+ released LGBTQ stories that reached a wide kids and family audience such as Zombies 3 and Better Nate Than Ever, but missed the notice in films like Hocus Pocus 2 and Turning Red, which only included “blink and you’ll fail it” moments of advocacy, if any at all. A concerning trend we’ve seen in the past year is the remov
When I used to think of Disney, I thought about growing up watching unexpected heroes. Sadly none of these movies had explicitly queer content, they still managed to instill in me an unexpected yet inherently queer lesson. A lesson of self-realization and fundamental self-love in the face of contradiction, hate, and/or exploitation. Movies like Turning Red, Hercules,Mulan, and Cinderella. Yes, especially Cinderella where, despite the surface level heteronormativity, a victim of abuse believes they deserve love.
All the other movies listed track Cinderella’s example and show characters carrying out radical acts of self-love. They not only survived but thrived in the face of animosity. Every time I watch Mulan rotate around to all of China bowing to her despite doing all her “wrongs”, the inner child moment that Mei Lee has with her mother, or Hercules belt Go the Distance I still shed a tear.
These movies remind me of a quote by Bell Hooks. “Queer not as organism about who you’re having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but gender non-conforming as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and discover a place to speak and to thrive and t
Disney faces backlash over LGBTQ controversy: ‘It’s just pure nonsense’
Brandon Wolf has fond memories of his five years productive as a dancer at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom near Orlando, Florida.
“It was one of the best times of my experience because I moved to Orlando to find a place to belong, to find a collective, to discover a world where I could be an out queer person of colour and be proud of that,” the 33-year-old says. “I certainly found that in the central Florida community that I have grown to love. I start that in my fellow cast members and I’m very grateful for my time being proficient to work with them at Disney.”
The Walt Disney Firm, one of the world’s biggest media and entertainment empires, prides itself on a lesbian, male lover, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) kind culture. But today its reputation for inclusivity and tolerance is under scrutiny – as are its deep ties to the political establishment and the lack of LGBTQ representation in its films.
Disney’s workers hold been staging walkouts in protest at chief executive Bob Chapek’s lacklustre response to Florida legislation dubbed “don’t state gay”. The controversial bill bars manual on “sexual orien