{"id":1417384,"date":"2022-04-04T07:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417384"},"modified":"2022-04-04T07:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:44:49","slug":"disney-expands-dealings-in-10-countries-with-anti-gay-laws-while-opposing-floridas-anti-groomer-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-expands-dealings-in-10-countries-with-anti-gay-laws-while-opposing-floridas-anti-groomer-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Expands Dealings in 10 Countries With Anti-Gay Laws While Opposing Florida\u2019s Anti-Groomer Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisney-expands-dealings-in-10-countries-with-anti-gay-laws-while-opposing-floridas-anti-groomer-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417384&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.rebelmouse.io\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yOTYzMDc2Ny9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1NzExMzYzNH0.WawB_Bfi1vUnjiPJuykMMMa8qGMFBpI3dqELeLA2S78\/img.jpg?width=1200&#038;coordinates=0%2C127%2C0%2C44&#038;height=600\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Walt Disney Company is expanding its operations in at least ten explicitly anti-gay countries and regions.<\/p>\n<p>This move comes despite the company\u2019s insistence on laundering LGBT+ narratives into content for children in the United States and its commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/harris-faulkner-disney-parental-rights\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">repealing<\/a> Florida\u2019s recently passed \u2014 and widely supported \u2014 \u201cParental Rights in Education\u201d law. <\/p>\n<p>This past Tuesday, the transnational entertainment titan announced that it would be launching its eponymous streaming service, Disney+, in 42 new areas in Europe, Asia, and West Africa from May to June of 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Nearly a dozen of the places where Disney+ will soon be offered have strict anti-gay laws. <\/p>\n<p>These places include the countries Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudia Arabia, Tunisia, Yemen, and the region of Palestine. <\/p>\n<p>It is not specified whether Disney is expanding its services to both territories considered to be \u201cPalestine,\u201d the Western Bank, and the Gaza Strip, as both are officially governed by the Palestine Liberation Organization. <\/p>\n<p>In many of the entities to which Disney will soon be extending its services, homosexual acts are often punished with lengthy jail sentences, hard labor, and exuberant fines. <\/p>\n<p>In countries like Saudi Arabia, where there is no formalized criminal code, homosexuals and transgender individuals are punished in far more draconian ways. These punishments include expensive fines, chemical castrations, and executions.<\/p>\n<p>In Yemen, homosexuality is punishable by death.<\/p>\n<p>Disney also recently announced that it would be creating a bevy of LGBTQ+-focused content for Disney+. This is move has come under increased scrutiny after the corporation proclaimed its indignation over Florida\u2019s \u201cParental Rights in Education\u201d law. <\/p>\n<p>Disney explicitly stated that it is dedicated to getting the law \u201crepealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts\u201d while mischaracterizing the law as the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement made after Florida\u2019s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law, Disney said, \u201cFlorida\u2019s HB 1557, also know as the \u2018Don\u2019t Say Gay\u2019 bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law. Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"ab977\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"434afe926f187cbd1b9c1042956adda7\">\n<blockquote class=\"rm-embed twitter-custom-tweet\" data-twitter-tweet-id=\"1508494672817123330\" data-partner=\"rebelmouse\">\n<p>Statement from The Walt Disney Company on signing of Florida legislation:pic.twitter.com\/UVI7Ko3aKS<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Walt Disney Company (@Walt Disney Company)<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WaltDisneyCo\/statuses\/1508494672817123330\">1648488131<\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>Disney also sails its cruise ships to the Southern Caribbean island countries of Antigua, Dominica, and St. Maarten. All three of these destinations have legally banned gay marriage, and in Antigua and Dominica people can face several years in prison for engaging in homosexual activity. <\/p>\n<p>The Walt Disney Company also continues to grow its business in China despite what the Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2016\/mar\/04\/china-bans-gay-people-television-clampdown-xi-jinping-censorship\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> as the country banning depictions of gay people on television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Walt Disney Company is expanding its operations in at least ten explicitly anti-gay countries and regions.This move comes despite the company\u2019s insistence on laundering LGBT+ narratives into content for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}