Disney

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/6/2023
  

  What Disney's Orange Bird Logo Says about Corporate Support and the LGBTQ Movement

  by Julio Capó, Jr.

  In the 1970s, Disney was much more willing to tolerate the anti-gay tirades of singer Anita Bryant, which previewed today's "groomer" accusations, because of a lucrative and politically expedient partnership with Florida's orange growers, suggesting movement power, not corporate benevolence, is driving change. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/18/2022
  

  It's Not the First Time Conservatives Have Feuded With Disney over LGBTQ Issues

  Despite the volume of threats to boycott, Disney has seen little damage from previous controversies like the Southern Baptist Convention's 1997 boycott over Ellen DeGeneris, theme park "Gay Days" and health benefits for same-sex partners. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/7/2022
  

  Disney Controversy Puts Right-Wing Children's Entertainment Industry in Spotlight

  by Nicole Hemmer

  A growing array of conservative children’s literature and programming coincides with right-wing attacks on schools and children’s entertainment that conservatives claim are sites of political and sexual indoctrination.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/24/2021
  

  Making a More Inclusive Disney Means Pushing Back Against the Park's History

  by Eric Avila

  Complaints about "wokeness" at Disney theme parks ignore the way that the parks' designs reflected Walt Disney's conservatism and a hierarchical view of human civilizations. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/9/19
  

  The white nostalgia fueling the ‘Little Mermaid’ backlash

  by Brooke Newman

  The uproar over a black Ariel shows how important representation in children’s entertainment is.

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• SOURCE: Motherboard
  5-19-17
  

  Trump is so controversial Disney reportedly won’t let him have a speaking role in the Hall of Presidents

  To side-step controversy Disney is revamping the exhibit. Now only GW and Lincoln will speak.

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• 5-22-16
  

  Turning the Movies of the Past into Concert Hits of the Present

  by Bruce Chadwick

  The combination of historic movies and orchestral music is a surefire hit and we are bound to see more of them around the country.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  5-15-15
  

  Backlash to Disney announcement it’s making a movie about a white father in 2014 who claimed a kingdom in Africa on behalf of his daughter, his "princess"

  Critics say the story is a celebration of colonialism

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  7-8-14
  

  Americans Think Africa Is One Big Wild Animal Reserve

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Most actual Africans don’t come any closer to wildlife than Westerners do, but it's not what Westerners think.