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Disney Shareholders Overwhelmingly Reject Proposal to Sever Ties With LGBTQ Rights Group at Annual Meeting
Disney investors rejected a proposal that the company end its participation in an LGBTQ rights organization's corporate equality ratings program.
The proposal — requesting that Disney “cease” its participation in the Human Rights Campaign ‘s annual Corporate Equality Index — was submitted by right-wing think tank National Center for Public Policy Research, through its Free Enterprise Project initiative. In its proposal, the NCPPR’s Free Enterprise Project took particular aim at trans-rights efforts backed by HRC and others “like GLSEN, the Trevor Project and GLAAD” that the conservative group claimed “seek to sow gender confusion in children, encourage irreversible surgical procedures on confused teens, effectively eliminate girls’ and women’s sports and bathrooms, and roll back longstanding religious liberties.” The proposal also alleged that “Disney disastrously engaged in such activism when it inserted itself in the middle of a divisive public debate over the Parental Rights in Education Act,” referring to Disney’s opposition to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law in 2022. Thursday’s vote rejecting the anti-HRC proposal comes after Disney last month scaled back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies — as other companies also have done in the wake of the Trump administration’s aggressive push to eliminate DEI government and private-sector initiatives.
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