Discussing Disney's personnel policies once on Salon's "TableTalk" threads, I was told by a gay polemicist named David Ehrenstein who'd written a book about the "velvet underground" of the 40's and 50's that from quite early days, Disney's animation shop was gay-heavy, and that his managers realized that they had to keep the creative talent happy.
Of course, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that not everyone who has animation talent is gay, and that for them to become so concentrated, back in the 50's, that they dominated Disney's shop, meant that they were steadily pushing non-gays out of the animation studio for years and turning it into a closed shop. The underbelly of "toleration" no doubt.
But Disney's culturally been a gay/gay-friendly shop for many years, n/w/s the whole company would have been instantly dead if that fact had gotten out, back in the day.
As an aside, Ehrenstein had a tagline for a while that read, "Gay as a Disney cow."