ANAHEIM, Calif.—Longtime Disney fans spoke out about the company’s denouncement of the State of Florida’s passage of the Parental Rights in Education bill—banning sexual orientation and gender identity in K–3rd grade classrooms—which escalated April 22 when Gov. Ron Desantis signed it into law to abolish special districts in the state, including the Walt Disney Company’s, which has afforded it self-governance since 1968.
Many, including Disney, claimed the bill—which is now law—was discriminative against the LGBTQ community, despite the text not including the word “gay” or prohibiting schools from saying the words.
