John,
I’ve sent you a few emails in the past few weeks about Disney’s abhorrent silence on the rash of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Black history legislation across the country. Though pressure from Color Of Change members forced Disney to take important steps to atone for Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Disney has not offered concrete plans to combat the rampant hate their political donations currently support in other states.1
TELL DISNEY: STOP FUNDING HATE!
Today, Disney’s LGBTQ+ workers and their allies are staging a walkout in protest of the company’s mishandling of Florida’s recently passed “Don’t Say Gay” bill.2 Though many Disney workers are walking out, others do not feel safe enough to join. Instead, they planned to wear Disney’s Pride-themed Mickey Mouse pins to show their pride and support for the walkout; however, workers have revealed that Disney has not allowed people to wear these pins.3 Disney directly profits from the LGBTQ+ community with Pride-themed merchandise but will not allow its own workers to don their buttons in support of the company’s LGBTQ+ community. This further proves what Disney and CEO Bob Chapek have shown us over these past few years: Disney prioritizes profits over people, and the rest of us suffer for it.
Color Of Change stands in solidarity with Disney’s LGBTQ+ workers and their allies, who are standing up and walking out in protest against the company’s funding of hate. Bills like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and Georgia’s recently-introduced copycat legislation will render untold harms on the LGBTQ+ community; the Black LGBTQ+ community will be hurt most by bigoted legislation and its corporate enablers.4
So what can you do, John? Color of Change members like you have sent nearly 7,000 emails to Disney’s CEO since last week, but we can always send more. Please take two minutes to send a message to CEO Bob Chapek in solidarity with his employees. We must demand that Disney stop funding hateful legislation and do everything it can to stop legislation like “Don’t Say Gay” and anti-Black history legislation from passing in other states.
Demand that Disney stop funding anti-black and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation!
Until justice is real,
- Jade Magnus Ogunnaike
References
Sarah Whitten, “Disney pauses political donations in Florida, CEO Chapek apologizes for silence over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill,” CNBC, March 11, 2022, https://act.colorofchange.org/go/349923?t=6&akid=53137%2E4731121%2EXliDH5
Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby, "Has Disney really changed?" Popular Info, March 22, 2022, https://act.colorofchange.org/go/350760?t=8&akid=53137%2E4731121%2EXliDH5
Tweet by @DisneyWalkout, Twitter, March 21, 2022, https://act.colorofchange.org/go/350761?t=10&akid=53137%2E4731121%2EXliDH5
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