In Florida, Disney employees mobilized against a law deemed anti-LGBTQI

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At Disney, we are witnessing “one of the biggest storms in several decades”, affirms the New York Times. Rainbow flag as a standard, the third week “de chambard” continues in the United States, with a new protest action on the morning of March 22. A few hundred employees demonstrated outside the doors of the company’s headquarters in California to denounce the lack of official protest by their company against a law deemed anti-LGBTQI.

Despite the small number of participants, this is a “moral victory” for the organizers, according to the Washington Post.

Reason for anger: Disney management wanted to remain neutral in the face of the Florida Senate’s adoption of a law dubbed “Don’t talk about gays”, which prohibits teachers from kindergarten classes until equivalent CE2 to discuss gender identity and sexual orientation “in a manner inappropriate for the age or development of the students”. Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has said he expects to sign the law soon.

Or “Disney, like many companies, distributes its dollars to both Republicans and Democrats wherever it operates,” remind him Los Angeles Times in another article. The company has in fact paid large sums to legislators who have

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