Disney Boycott
Why Boycott Disney?
A boycott of Disney and subsidiaries has been declared by the American Family Association, Southern Baptists, Assemblies of God, National Association of Free Will Baptists and other organizations. Why? Most people have heard a few reasons, but are unaware of the extent of the problem. Here is a list from the September 1996 issue of the Journal of the American Family Association, p. 21. (References given in italics.)
Company executives, including Chairman
Michael Eisner, work with Hollywood Supports, a homosexual advocacy group whose
focus is to promote the gay agenda in the workplace. Hollywood Supports
Online
Disney has extended company health
benefits to live-in partners of homosexual employees (the policy does not cover
unmarried heterosexual couples who live together). The Orlando Sentinel,
10/7/95, USA Today, 10/19/95, Daily Variety, 10/9/95
In June, 1996, the company hosted the
6th annual "Gay and Lesbian Day at Walt Disney World." In a cartoon
homosexual organizers portrayed Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as homosexual
lovers; and Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck as lesbians. Disney has not publicly
objected. An Orlando Weekly writer says, "Take away the gay workers....and
Disney World becomes the planet's largest self-service theme park."
Disney helped underwrite the 1993
Hollywood benefit for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. The Press
Enterprise, 12/28/93
Disney advertised in Out, a
homosexual magazine. Out, 2/94
Tom Shumacher, Disney VP of feature
animation, is an open homosexual who takes his "husband" to executive
retreats. In an interview with the homosexual publication The Advocate,
Shumacher said, "There are a lot of gay people (at Disney) at every level.
It is a very supportive environment." Human Events, 8/12/94; The
Advocate 6/25/94
Disney hired avowed lesbian Lauren
Lloyd to develop female and lesbian movies. Out magazine, a homosexual
publication, praised Disney: "Like it or not, lesbians are not yet chic
entertainment attractions for a lot of America. With Lloyd and Disney on our
side, though, anything's possible."
Out, 11/94
The May, 1995,issue of Buzz
magazine (a magazine which "provides readers with perspective on
personalities, politics, culture and commerce of Los Angeles, California")
reported that a homosexual rights activist said that she was once told by Disney
chairman Michael Eisner that "as many as 40% of the company's 63,000
employees might be gay." Thomas Schumacher, an open homosexual and "one
of the guiding lights behind Disney's billion-dollar hit, The Lion King,
added "....there are a lot of gay people here at every level." The
cover story, entitled "Disney Comes Out of the Closet," also reported
that Disney has the "largest lesbian and gay employees sales organization
in the entertainment industry" and that the perception of Disney as having
many homosexual employees is "well founded." In addition to
Schumacher, Buzz names prominent openly homosexual Disney executives:
production vice president Lauren Lloyd of Disney's Hollywood Pictures; studio
producer Laurence Mark; supervising animator Andreas Deja, the man responsible
for the character of Gaston in Beauty and the Beast; senior vice
president and Disney's interactive division Steven Fields; Rick Leed, who heads
the production company that produces the television sitcom Home Improvement.
Disney training coordinator Jimi Ziehr said that at Disney's Epcot Center in
Orlando, Florida, "gays outnumber the straights at futureland operations,
and there's nothing in the closet at Guest Relations." Buzz, 5/95
Hyperion Press, a Disney-owned
subsidiary, published Lettin' It All Hang Out, the autobiography of
RuPaul, a well-known "drag queen" (tranvestite) entertainer.
Hyperion Press published Growing
Up Gay. Written by three homosexual comedians, the book is aimed at "gay
youngsters who were bred by heterosexuals."
Hyperion is planning to publish Daniel
Harris' book about "gay culture." Harper's magazine, 12/95
Actors Ernie Sabella and Nathan Lane
said that the characters they played (Timon, the meerkat, and Pumba, the wart
hog) in The Lion King are "the first homosexual Disney characters
ever to come to the screen...." NY Times, 6/12/94
Disney signed Martin Scorcese, the
director of The Last Temptation of Christ, Casino, Taxi Driver and many
other hard-edged films to a 4-year contract. Daily Variety, 1/30/96
Disney hired Victor Salva, a convicted
child molester, to direct its movie
Powder. When Salva's victim, Nathan Winters (now 20), publicized the
hiring, some of the polive officers who investigated the 1987 molestation were
incredulous that Salva was working again as a movie director. "It just
blows me away," said Officer Gary Primavera. "He has serious signs of
being a pedophile." Responding to Winter's demand that Disney fire Salva,
Disney's John Dreyer said, "What's the point other than you want to make
headlines?" Washington Times, 10/25/95 [Aside: It's my
understanding that Salva was a movie director the first time around, when he
molested Nathan, who was in some way connected with the production.]
Disney hired Kevin Smith to produce
two movies: Dogma, which attacks Christianity by asserting that
Christian beliefs are little more than mythology, and Chasing Amy, about
a man's pursuit of a lesbian. Daily Variety, 11/3/95
Mark Gill, the president of
Disney-owned Miramax admitted that his company thrives on racy, often violent
promotion for its movies. Daily Variety, 9/13/95
In the 1994 Disney movie The Santa
Clause, the number of an actual phone sex line appears in the film aimed at
children and families. Associated Press, 5/1/96
Priest (Miramax) is a
pro-homosexual movie which depicts five Catholic priests as perverts and blames
their perversion on Church teachings. One priest is a homosexual; a second an
adulterer; a third an alcoholic; a fourth demented; and the fifth just plain
mean and vicious. The film is blatantly anti-Christian. The Advocate,
4/4/95, 4/18/95; Family Issues Alert, 3/30/95
Pulp Fiction (Miramax) is a
seedy, hyper-violent movie starring John Travolta. It had an NC-17 rating
before editing gave it an R rating. Entertainment Weekly, 6/10/94; Daily
Variety, 6/15/94
Color of Night (Hollywood
Pictures) shows co-stars Bruce Willis and Jane March entwined in numerous sex
scenes featuring full frontal nudity. Entertainment Weekly, 6/10/94; Daily
Variety, 6/15/94
The Advocate (Miramax) is
filled with nudity. The movie was rated NC-17 (formerly "X") but on
appeal (and after cutting out a 12-second sex scene) it was given an R. Daily
Variety, 8/17/94
Clerks (Miramax), a black and
white film about New Jersey convenience store clerks, was originally rated NC-17
because graphic and sexually explicit language is woven throughout the film. On
appeal, it was given an R-rating. Daily Variety, 10/12/94
Kids (Miramax) was described
by Variety magazine as "one of the most controversial American
movies ever made." According to Newsweek, "the film follows a
number of barely pubescent boys and girls around New York City as they smoke
pot, bait gays, beat a black man and engage in graphic sex." Under pressure
Miramax formed an independent company to market and distribute the pornographic
movie. Daily Variety, 1/27/95; Newsweek, 2/20/95; Wall Street Journal,
3/30/95; AP, 6/29/95
Chicks in White Satin
(Hollywood Pictures) is a film about a lesbian couple who decide on a
semitraditional "commitment celebration." Glamour, 8/9/94
Write:
Chairman Michael Eisner, Walt Disney Company
500 S. Buena
Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521
Or call 818-560-1000
Go to the American Family Association web site.
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