Posted on 06/01/2021 6:57:55 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Walt Disney Co. has been hit with a lawsuit from one of its own executives who alleges the company discriminated against him on the basis of sexual orientation. The complaint comes as Disney is rolling out Pride Month-themed content across its media platforms, including the kid-oriented Disney+ streaming service.
In a ten-page complaint filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Joel Hopkins claims he was denied promotion after his superiors learned about his sexual orientation. He alleges he was also put on a “dead-end career track” and that his compensation “is less than other individuals who are also department heads.”
The lawsuit comes as Disney rolls out LGBTQ-themed content across its corporate properties. The Disney+ streaming service announced its own Pride celebration section where viewers can watch movies, documentaries, and short that focus on LGBTQ+ stories.
“We believe in the power of inclusive storytelling that brings us together and inspires us to live authentically, and Disney+ is committed to amplifying LGBTQ+ and BIPOC voices,” the company said in a statement.
Disney is also rolling out LGBTQ-themed apparel and other consumer merchandise throughout its U.S. parks and online stores.
“As a leader in LGBTQ+ content and workplace equality, The Walt Disney Company is committed to creating inclusive workplaces and supportive and welcoming environments in local communities,” the company has stated.
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The guy was white and normal hetero, i bet.
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In other words, he is straight, and the gays are shutting him out, right? That’s what happens when one’s sexuality becomes their erstwhile ‘religion’.
I assumed the guy is straight ...
My daughter worked there in the 1990s out of college...she could not get a date everyone LGBTQ.....moved back home
Looks like Disney thinks everyone is LGBTQ
Disney is reaping what it has so condescendingly sown.
From the article:
“Hopkins joined Disney in 1994. Six years later, he was promoted to vice president of production finance for Touchstone TV. Around the same time, according to the filing, his “sexual orientation as a gay man became known to several individuals, including Plaintiff’s direct supervisor, Jim Hedges, the CFO of ABC.”
“The guy was white and normal hetero, i bet.”
Probably some GAY BIGOT outed him as such. Just horrible, what the guy does in his bedroom with his consenting wife is literally NO ONE’S BUSINESS.
But, I guess, if one works for a ‘woke’ company, certain ‘behaviors’ are required and failure to properly behave, even in the privacy of a bedroom, is grounds for dismissal.
Sadly, the United States of America harbors a metastatic cancer of systemic/institutional racism/sexism, and its name is “affirmative action.”
Straight, white males are the only people it is legal to discriminate against, and discrimination against them is required by law.
Probably some GAY BIGOT outed him as such. Just horrible, what the guy does in his bedroom with his consenting wife is literally NO ONE’S BUSINESS.
See post #8.
Maybe he is gay but got tossed because he wouldn’t put out.
There is more to it than we see here.
Disney is so woke that I refuse to believe this guy was passed over because he is a homosexual. Not happening.
I know a high up there that told me he got a memo recently that he thought initially was in error, woman was spelled womxn. But then he found out it was NOT an error. Hulu (owned by Disney) is even more woke. Your job there can be at stake if you make mistakes with a coworker’s chosen gobbly gook “pronouns”.
Whatever the real story, it’s more evidence that the left is going to eat its own. Which, while satisfying to see, isn’t going to do normal people any good.
Given how pro homo Disney is, especialy in their animation groups, I read this and could totally plausibly believe it was a straight guy saying this.
Either way, not surprised.
Die Disney Die!
It worked, he died.
Really? No fee unless we win your case lawyers going up against Disney, Touchstone, ABC?
Well, you can already guess how much effort is going to go into pushing that forward. They’re presuming that Disney will offer a settlement. They’re not going to get a settlement offer.
The evil men do lives on after them. The good is interred with their bones.
Perhaps Walt did not intend the company he built to be evil. In fact likely he did not. But now it is, and has been for decades.
Disney is a scum operation — keep your family away from it.
for whatever chuckles it may bring,
https://www.cbr.com/disney-characters-queer/
one might also recall Donald Duck’s strange lifestyle with his arse sticking out all the time in front of his “nephews”
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