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As conservatives rally around social issues, the Republican Party is clashing with corporate America. Will the fights break its longstanding alliance with big business? At the home of Sarah Fields, a conservative activist and mum-of-three from Texas, some of America's biggest brands are no longer welcome. She cut out Disney first, turned off by children's shows featuring gay couples. Her boycotts of Olay skin products and beers from Bud Light-maker Anheuser-Busch began more recently, after she learned they had worked with transgender social media star Dylan Mulvaney. "My thing is protecting kids and the very first time I ever saw...

A Florida teacher under investigation for showing Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Strange World (2022) to a group of students has spoken out online... Jenna Barbie (@becomingabetterbarbee) shared a six-minute TikTok video identifying herself as the teacher involved and defending her actions. She explained that all parents, including the one who lodged the initial complaint, previously signed permission slips allowing teachers to show PG movies... ...The first-year teacher said she showed the film to some of her and a fellow teacher’s students after they finished taking standardized tests. It related to their current lesson plans about earth science and ecosystems.

Disney has launched a new collection to celebrate Pride Month! The collection is full of rainbow-themed apparel and accessories for kids and adults, such as t-shirts, plush toys, face masks, pins and backpacks, as well as features logos from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars. Grab one of the t-shirts to wear on your next trip to Disney’s parks or buy a pin to showcase year-round. Plus, Disney will be donating to organizations around the world that support LGBTQ+ communities, including Minus18, GLSEN, ARELAS and more.

Disney plans to eliminate thousands of jobs next week ... Former Disney CEO Bob Chapek, who Iger handpicked to serve as his successor in February 2020, was dismissed by the board of directors after lackluster financial performance under his leadership and replaced with Iger in November 2022. The company’s stock price has declined 17% over the past year, and several other prominent entertainment and technology companies have been forced to dismiss large shares of their employees. Disney has also lost trust among some consumers after Chapek and other executives involved the firm in contentious culture war battles last year. Disney...

The Walt Disney Company is going to cut thousands of staff next week - including 15 percent of its entertainment division. Disney has around 220,000 employees globally, around 170,000 of which are in the US. The layoffs will affect all major divisions of the roughly $185 billion company, which was recently split into: entertainment, ESPN and parks and resorts. Disney parks employs the majority of workers in the US - around 100,000 people in 2020, according to the latest publicly available figures - but it's unclear exactly how many staffers are being cut from each division. These plans were first...

Disney has moved deeply and quickly to change its products, which for decades were entertainment for children, to indoctrination in the LGBT ideology.It has built new story lines around LGBT characters, has openly battled with Florida over the state's plan to protect young children in school from inappropriate sex instructions, has even put warning labels on some older projects to advise that they do not any longer meet the requirements of the company for being politically correct.Now it's taking an even bigger step: It's new programming on Disney+ will feature a teen who falls in love with the devil.According to...

It is unbecoming of an adult to speak publicly about Disney theme parks, but I lament the demise of Splash Mountain. The log flume coaster, which featured characters from the controversial 1946 film Song of the South, was one of the most popular features of Disney's American parks, and revitalized a previously quiet corner of Disneyland. Yesterday, on its final day, a massive crowd stood shoulder to shoulder outside the attraction, waiting one last time to descend into its famous briar pit.

GLAAD now demands Disney and other woke companies give money to political candidates that the LGBT movement supports.(LifeSiteNews) – As 2022 draws a to a close, one would think that GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) would be pleased with their cultural success. Disney put kissing lesbians in Lightyear and put a “queer” teenager with an encouraging family in Strange World (the animated blockbuster bombed at the box office). Peppa Pig got lesbian polar bears, and Scooby-Doo outed Velma as a lesbian. The LGBT colonization not only of the entertainment industry, but of children’s entertainment—there are few franchises that...

In the past year alone, the Walt Disney Co. fought Florida over its ant-grooming Parental Rights in Education law, created multiple transgender characters for its children’s shows, put gay characters at the center of its big-budget movies, and even launched an LGBTQ-themed apparel line. And still, Disney isn’t gay enough for the folks at GLAAD.

Disney CEO Bob Iger attended a Sandy Hook Promise Benefit and referenced people in influential positions and suggested that those who shape culture “have an extra responsibility” to push gun control. Sandy Hook Promise is the group with to whom country singer Tim McGraw donated concert proceeds for a gun control fundraiser in July 2015. On April 16, 2015, Breitbart News pointed to McGraw’s planned participation in the fundraiser and he responded to the coverage by telling MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, “I lead my life leading with my heart, I do the things that I can do and support the causes...

BBob Iger, the newly appointed CEO of Disney, pledged to double down on LGBT “storytelling” in the company’s animated kids’ movies during a Monday town hall with employees, according to The New York Times. Iger served as CEO for 15 years before retiring in late 2020; he was brought back in about a year later after his successor, Bob Chapek, was fired, according to the NYT. Tumbling stock prices marked Chapek’s tenure as CEO, as did public outrage over the company’s political engagement in Florida and its alleged efforts to inject sexual content into children’s shows, particularly through gay and...

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger has returned to the helm of the flailing, woke company to replace the ousted Bob Chapek, who Iger accuses of “killing the soul of the company.” From criticism over the mishandling of the streaming service to astronomical price increases at the parks to cover the losses from COVID to a public fight with FL Governor Ron DeSantis, who was falsely accused of pushing a misrepresented “Don’t say Say” law that had nothing to do with not saying ‘gay,’ but instead, prevented young children up to grade four from being taught about their sexual identity in...

The radical LGBT organization Equality Florida endorsed Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) for governor in Florida’s gubernatorial race — a welcomed endorsement for Crist, who claimed that the “LGBTQ+ community is under attack by DeSantis.” “I’m honored to earn the support of the Equality Florida Action PAC! Make no mistake, our LGBTQ+ community is under attack by DeSantis,” the Democrat claimed. “The people deserve a champion back in Tallahassee. Someone who will listen, respect, and fight for them. I vow to be that governor,” he said: I’m honored to earn the support of the Equality Florida Action PAC! Make no mistake,...

The Walt Disney Co. is doubling down on woke gender politics in its upcoming Marvel series Ironheart. The studio has cast transgender “non-binary” actress Zoe Terakes in a key supporting role just days after the show also cast drag queen Shea Couleé, an alumnus of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Terakes, who hails from Australia, was born female but identifies as “non-binary” and “trans masculine.” (snip) Under CEO Bob Chapek, Disney is aggressively promoting radical gender theory in its entertainment for children. The new Disney+ series Baymax features a transgender “man” who menstruates and gives advice on maxi pads. Disney’s Marvel superhero...

The Walt Disney Co. won’t say gay in the Middle East. After picking a political fight with Florida over the state’s Parental Rights in Education Law, and declaring itself an LGBTQ ally to boot, Disney is reportedly censoring gay and transgender content on the version of the Disney+ streaming service that it launched in the region in June. Among the titles that won’t stream are the animated movie Lightyear, which features a lesbian kiss, and the Baymax series, which has a transgender “man” who menstruates Disney cited “local regulatory requirements” in a statement to Esquire Middle East. “Content offerings differ...

The truth has become hate speech on Twitter. There are no conversations anymore," Moms for Liberty's Tiffany Justice told The Post Millennial. ... Twitter has been on a banning spree, suspending or banning accounts that call out "grooming" behavior on the site. Author and mathematician James Lindsay was banned for saying "ok, groomer," YouTuber Tim Pool was locked out of his account for saying "Twitter actively protects and supports pedophilia," and now Moms for Liberty has been suspended, pending appeal, for speaking against the medical gender transition of children. ... The truth has become hate speech on Twitter. There are...

Disney has announced it is ditching the term 'fairy godmothers' for gender-neutral titles at dress-up salons across its theme parks. The salons, which give makeovers and help kids aged 3 to 12 dress up as princess, knights and other characters, will drop the term 'fairy godmothers in training' for their staff, instead referring to them as apprentices. 'This way, cast members that might not identify as female can still be part of the process to dress up & style the children without having to refer to themselves as a female Disney character,' a release on Disney blog, Streaming the Magic,...

G. Allen Johnson June 15, 2022Updated: June 16, 2022, 5:06 pm Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans) is best friends with Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba), a lesbian character in a same-sex relationship in the Disney/Pixar film “Lightyear,” which has been banned in territories in the Middle East and Asia. Disney and Pixar Animation Studios’ decision to refuse to re-edit or alter depiction of a same-sex relationship in the new film “Lightyear” is continuing to reverberate — and those repercussions now include a ban on the film’s release in territories in the Middle East and West Asian territories. This week, decision...

With tensions high between The Walt Disney Company and Florida lawmakers, the entertainment giant, alongside three other major media companies, will air new a new public service announcement from GLAAD featuring a transgender teen which calls for nationwide support of LGBTQ youth. The PSA centers on Texas mom Amber Briggle and her son Max.(snip) The new PSA will be aired by outlets owned by Disney, Comcast, WarnerMedia and Paramount. Disney’s participation comes at a time when company executives are working to be more aggressive in advocating for LGBTQ rights. CEO Bob Chapek, in particular, came under scrutiny in the past...

The Walt Disney Company will soon be airing an ad on all of its channels featuring the mother of a trans-identified child lambasting supporters of bills banning genital mutilation surgeries for children and the teaching of LGBT ideology in schools. The mother accuses these Americans of trying to “tear our families apart.” The LGBT advocacy organization GLAAD released the public service announcement called “Protect Our Families” last week. The 60-second ad profiles the Briggle family, which includes Amber Briggle along with her husband and her two children. The ad focuses on her trans-identified daughter, who now identifies as a boy...