the champion of LBGTQ... chooses a country where homosexuality is a crime - hmmm Disney Picks Anti-LGBTQ United Arab Emirates for New Park
True, homosexuals are being dragged from their Florida homes and are being burned, en masse, in the streets.
This is not being built or run by Disney, they are just licensing their IP. Similar to Tokyo Disneyland, which is superior to Disney world. Let's hope it is run better than Ferrari world.
In Abu Dhabi, homosexual acts are criminalized under Article 268 of the Federal Penal Code, prohibiting private consensual acts between adult men. The penal code also criminalizes "unnatural sex acts," potentially including same-sex sexual acts, with penalties of up to 14 years in prison. Additionally, the UAE, including Abu Dhabi, does not legally recognize gender identities beyond male and female.
I'm not going to disagree that it's strange on the face of it, but I suspect much of pushback in Florida was due to many of their employees being affected by the law.
This reminds me of the “bathroom bill” controversy a few years back in North Carolina. HB2 reined in perverts, i.e., men demanding access to women’s facilities. What followed was a baboon-howling cacaphony of virtue signaling from companies refusing to expand to the state. So some of these same companies preceded to set up shop in countries hostile to LGBTQ.
how are any Disney employees affected by it? The law was not a no say don’t say gay like everybody tried to say it was there was nothing in the law that said you couldn’t say the word gay. It was strictly an educational bill that said you couldn’t read explicit BS about homosexuality and LGBTQ and all that crap to elementary school kids - people made it into something that it wasn’t.
Because they employee a large number of LGBTQ employees who live in Florida and they were upset by it? You get upset about things that have zero impact on you all the time. If the law was passed in someplace like Texas then Disney wouldn't have gotten involved.
How so? That was a money grab and this is a money grab? Oh, you thought Disney actually cared about these things. That's so cute.