Well, that actually took lengthy sufficient. After weeks of backwards and forwards between Walt Disney Company workers and the firm’s executives—a tense trade that included a walkout final week—Disney simply launched a full assertion condemning Florida’s horrible “Don’t Say Gay” invoice, which was signed into law right now by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

“Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law,” said a statement released by a the Walt Disney Company. “Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that. We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the country.”

What precisely the corporate will to do obtain its “goal” of repealing or hanging down the legislature remains to be unclear. But it’s refreshing that Disney has lastly stated one thing robust and assertive in regards to the laws, which bans academics from discussing sexual orientation and gender identification at school.

Disney employs about 75,000 within the state of Florida (lots of them in its Walt Disney World Resort theme parks and resorts), making it one of many state’s greatest employers. And but, as information of the invoice started to interrupt earlier this yr, CEO Bob Chapek refused to condemn or converse out about it publicly. That modified in current weeks as mainly your complete firm turned on him in a really public means, and this assertion is, hopefully, step one in Disney utilizing its appreciable sources and powers to battle a invoice that’s extremely hateful towards the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood.

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