{"id":90203,"date":"2022-03-14T01:12:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T08:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90203"},"modified":"2022-03-14T01:12:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T08:12:03","slug":"will-disney-say-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/03\/14\/will-disney-say-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Disney Say Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much as it pains me, let\u2019s talk about <em>Disney<\/em>.&nbsp; The <em>Mouse House <\/em>has been chastised for not speaking out against the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill in Florida \u2013 especially since it\u2019s one of the largest employers in Florida (to say nothing of their large percentage of LGBTQ+ personnel, many of whom I know intimately).&nbsp; Of course, it\u2019s not like <em>Disney <\/em>can fold up their tents and move to a neighboring state \u2013 they aren\u2019t carnie folk.&nbsp; And, yeah, like Alabama or Georgia are better!&nbsp; <em>Disney <\/em>CEO <strong>Bob Chapek <\/strong>sent out an internal memo called \u201cOur Unwavering Commitment to the LGBTQ+ Community\u201d.&nbsp; In it, he stated that the company stands with LGBTQ+ employees and their families, but that corporate statements do little to effect change and can also be counterproductive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alas, this only made the situation worse.&nbsp; Detractors noted many instances of where <em>Disney <\/em>did act swiftly \u2013 including pulling all releases from Russia eight days after the Ukraine invasion (more recently, <em>Disney <\/em>has \u201cpaused\u201d all Russian business).&nbsp; And <em>Pixar <\/em>employees took umbrage with it, stating that \u201cnearly every moment of overtly gay affection is cut at <em>Disney<\/em>\u2019s behest, regardless of when there is protest from both the creative teams and executive leadership.\u201d&nbsp; It was a mess.&nbsp; After several days, Chapek sent out a second memo.&nbsp; \u201cYou needed me to be a stronger ally in the fight for equal rights and I let you down.&nbsp; I am sorry\u201d.&nbsp; Since <em>Disney <\/em>had donated to many of the bill\u2019s supporters as well as opponents, Chapek \u201cpaused\u201d all political donations in Florida until they are thoroughly reviewed.&nbsp; Well, it\u2019s a start\u2026I guess.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much as it pains me, let\u2019s talk about Disney.&nbsp; The Mouse House has been chastised for not speaking out against the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill in Florida \u2013 especially since it\u2019s one of the largest employers in Florida (to say nothing of their large percentage of LGBTQ+ personnel, many of whom I know intimately).&nbsp; Of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90211,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90203\/revisions\/90211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}