Disneyland Cast Members Reportedly Told Not to Wear Official Mickey Pride Pins in Support of Walkout

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The Twitter account chronicling the Disney Walkout movement in protest of CEO Bob Chapek’s handling of LGBTQIA+ issues claims that Disneyland Cast Members were asked not to wear official Mickey Pride pins in support of their peers.

(1/3) We have been informed that Disneyland Cast Members who do not feel safe to fully walkout tomorrow are being told they cannot even wear pride/trans Mickey pins to show support.

Standing in stark contrast to the words of “inclusion” spoken by Chapek today in the town hall.

— Disney Walkout (@DisneyWalkout) March 21, 2022

Cast Members company-wide have organized a walkout tomorrow, but some who won’t be participating had planned to wear their Mickey pride flag pins in solidarity. Reportedly, they have been told not to wear them even though they are official Disney pins.

(2/3) These are the Mickey pins that Disney themselves sells.

They want us to feel “safe” but then sell our identities as brands for profit while preventing those same identities from existing in their own company.

— Disney Walkout (@DisneyWalkout) March 21, 2022

This all happening while many sectors of the company have been internally supportive of employees walking out tomorrow.

Front-line workers, the most vulnerable of us, not given the respect they deserve is shameful.#DisneyDoBetter #DisneySayTrans #DisneySayGay #WhereIsChapek

— Disney Walkout (@DisneyWalkout) March 21, 2022

CEO Bob Chapek recently promised to stand up for LGBTQIA+ employees and Cast Members. At a town hall meeting just earlier today, Chapek pledged to take more aggressive action against anti-LGBT+ legislation.

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