Disney Employees Plan Walkouts in Support of LGBTQIA+ Rights Amid 'Don't Say Gay' Backlash
to counter Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill, employees who identify as members of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies have announced actions to hold the company accountable.The recent statements by The Walt Disney Company leadership regarding the Florida legislature’s recent “Don’t Say Gay” bill have
utterly failed to match the magnitude of the threat to LGBTQIA+ safety represented by this legislation . Primarily, those statements have indicated that leadership still does not truly understand the impact this legislation is having not only on Cast Members in the state of Florida, but on all members of the LGBTQIA+ community in the company and beyond.
Starting today, the organizers are planning a series of walkouts during designated breaks; the protest action will culminate in a full-day event on March 22. Previous to Chapek’s apology, Disney came under fire for not only contributing to the funding of lawmakers behind the Florida bill, but also for long censoring its own. It also recently required that many employees move to a new company campus in Florida without the option to work remotely.
Along with the open letter, organizers have included a list of demands to publicly commit to actions that go beyond the “pauses” made as an effort to look into remedying the situation.
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