Where the bill now standsĬompany executives announced during a Monday town hall meeting with employees that Chapek would embark on a "listening tour" with workers in an effort to assuage their concerns over Disney's response to the legislation, Bloomberg reported. The discord inside the entertainment giant grew until, earlier this month, Disney CEO Bob Chapek apologized for not speaking out sooner against the bill, saying he should have been a "stronger ally in the fight for equal rights."Ĭhapek said he called DeSantis to express his concerns about the bill becoming law and said the company was "reassessing our approach to advocacy," including political donations in Florida, where Walt Disney World is located.
Ron DeSantis – and commit to a plan to protect LGBTQIA+ staff from such legislation, among other demands. "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," the letter added.Įmployees are calling for Disney to stop making political donations to certain Florida politicians – including Gov. "The recent statements by The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) 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," an open letter by Disney employees reads.
The full-scale walkout came after Disney employees planned a series of smaller walkouts during their 15-minute breaks to urge the company to take a stronger stance against the Parental Rights in Education legislation, which advocates have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill. Hundreds of employees were seen marching out of the company's headquarters in Burbank, Calif., Tuesday morning, according to CNBC field producer Steve Desaulniers. Some employees of The Walt Disney Company walked off the job Tuesday to protest what they said was the company's tepid response to a Florida bill that would restrict discussion of gender and sexuality in schools. Hooker tentatively suggested that homosexuals were as psychologically normal as heterosexuals.A statue of Walt Disney and Micky Mouse stand near the Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. As with the Rorschach responses, the adjustment ratings of the homosexual and heterosexuals did not differ significantly." Based on these findings, Dr. A third expert used the TAT and MAPS protocols to evaluate the psychological adjustment of the men. When asked to identify which Rorschach protocols were obtained from homosexuals, the experts could not distinguish respondents' sexual orientation at a level better than chance. They classified two-thirds of the heterosexuals and two-thirds of the homosexuals in the three highest categories of adjustment. Unaware of each subject's sexual orientation, two independent Rorschach experts evaluated the men's overall adjustment using a 5-point scale.
Hooker administered three projective tests, which measure people's patterns of thoughts, attitudes, and emotions-the Rorschach, in which people describe what they see in abstract ink blots, the Thematic Apperception Test and the Make-A-Picture-Story Test), in which people tell stories about different pictures. None of the men were in therapy at the time of the study. The two groups were matched for age, IQ, and education. Evelyn Hooker studied 30 homosexual males and 30 heterosexual males recruited through community organizations.