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Disney continues to do damage control over Florida’s controversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill with some employees staging a walkout over its response to the legislation.
| 23 Mar 2022
Disney continues to do damage control over Florida’s controversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill with some employees staging a walkout over its response to the legislation.
Formally known as the Parental Rights in Education Bill, the legislation would bar teachers from teaching topics of sexual orientation or gender identity to children under 10 years old. Florida’s Republican-dominated Senate passed the bill earlier this month, with Governor Ron DeSantis expected to sign the measure into law in the near future.
LGBTQ+ leaders at Disney have been pushing the company to speak out against the bill, with the company representing a major tourism driver in Florida and employing around 77,000 Floridians.
Disney CEO Bob Chapek finally denounced the bill earlier this month after it was discovered the company had donated to all of its sponsors, adding that he was disappointed by his own failure to not speak out sooner.
Disney has also committed to pausing donations to all Florida lawmakers who have backed the bill. On Tuesday (March 22), it released a social media statement saying it is "committed to creating experiences that support family values for every family, and will not stand for discrimination in any form".
But the walkout organisers have said that the steps taken by the company "have utterly failed to match the magnitude of the threat" presented by the legislation to the LGBTQ+ community.
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