Friday 18 March 2022

Disney pressured into Florida gay rights declarations

Feature analysis by Guardian as Disney CEO apologises, promises to champion LGBTQ+ rights and pauses all donations to Florida politicians. Article notes the history of Disney censorship, often at the story stage.




Earlier Guardian report on the "don't say gay" bill - which has uncanny parallels with Thatcher's notorious clause 28 bar on teachers or schools even mentioning homosexually ... in the EIGHTIES. That's now looked back on as a preposterous relic of past times and attitudes, but this is a good example that liberalisation is not a simple linear path of improving acceptance and tolerance.



Apple ban Malaysia gay conversion app

 Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/17/malaysian-governments-gay-conversion-app-pulled-by-google-play?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other