wonder studios‘ victoria alonso said he had a 45-minute meeting with the head of Disney Bob chapek recently regarding anti-LGBTQ legislation in Florida, Texas, and Arizona. She revealed the details of her chat while accepting the HAPPINESS Media Award for Best Film for eternal.
“If you are a member of the LGBTQIA community and work at the Walt Disney Company, the last two or three weeks have been a sad event. I asked Mr. Chapek for courage in a 45-minute meeting,” he said as he stood next to Chloe Zhao and Nate Moore.
She continued, “I asked him to look around and really if what we sell is family entertainment, we don’t choose which family. Family is this whole room. Family is family in Texas, in Arizona, in Florida, and in my family, in my house. So I ask you again Mr. Chapek: please respect, if we are selling family, take a stand against all these crazy outdated laws. Take a stand for the family. Stop saying that you tolerate us, nobody tolerates me, let me tell you that. You tolerate the heat of Florida, the humidity of Arizona or Florida and the dryness of Arizona and Texas. And you tolerate a tantrum in a two-year-old. But you don’t tolerate us. We deserve the right to live, love and have. More importantly, we deserve an origin story.”
He also passionately shared that everyone can play a role in helping to enact change.
“I encourage all of you to stop being silent, silence is death,” he said. “Silence is poison. But if you don’t stand up, if you don’t fight, if you don’t give your money, if you don’t vote, then all we can do is party and be gay. Fight fight Fight! As long as I’m at Marvel Studios, I will fight for the representation of all of us.”
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