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.
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