Tag Archives: Disney

Yesterday the city commission of Kissimmee, Florida voted 4-1 to extend LGBT partner benefits to city employees. That may not be earth-shattering news in the grand scheme of LGBT rights, but it’s interesting in that not very long ago, Kissimmee was a literal cow town, just a few thousand folks living on a few thousand acres of drained swampland with …

The image above was ABC7’s misleading final message to NYC last night just before their parent company Disney yanked their signal to Cablevision’s three million subscribers. Disney wants a $40M annual chunk of the dough that Cablevision collects for local/basic channels like ABC7 and the cable provider won’t pay it. So Disney pulled the plug, not Cablevision, despite what the …

YouTube whiz kid Fagottron, whose hypnotic spliced up Disney remixes I’ve posted here several times, has apparently gone into business with Disney itself, as his take on Pixar’s UPular is being promoted on the Pixar YouTube channel. Pixar refers to the artist as Pogo, which is apparently his stage name in his native Australia. It’s great to see a company …

(Via – Boing Boing)

For the last decade New Yorkers have bemoaned the Disneyfication of Times Square with its mall chain restaurants, its themed nightclubs, and its now well-scrubbed and well-fed middle American patrons. And with the below news, the Disneyfication of Times Square has become complete and literal. Disney is going theme park with its new Times Square retail store. Perhaps trying to …

In the wake of the national controversy over Adam Lambert’s performance on the American Music Awards, ABC parent Disney says they are rewriting their contracts for live performances to include promises from artists that their live shows will be the same as those seen in rehearsals. Disney/ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney told Reuters that in reaction to the Lambert …

ABC has canceled tomorrow’s scheduled concert on Good Morning America in the aftermath of his controversial performance on Sunday’s American Music Awards. But CBS has jumped on his new availability. If you were hoping to catch Adam Lambert performing on “Good Morning America” this Wednesday, or maybe even see the free concert in person in New York, you’re out of …

A shareholder resolution has been submitted by a Walt Disney Company stockholder, demanding that the company include “ex-gays” as a protected sexual orientation under employee discrimination rules. “It is about time Disney treated ex-gays with the respect they deserve,” said Bobbie Strobhar, the stockholder who submitted the shareholder resolution, reports Rueters. “Former homosexuals are true models of courage who have …

Representatives from three Iowa visitors bureaus set up a booth at Gay Days at Disneyland Resort this weekend, encouraging gays to come live and marry in their state. At the booth set up inside Disney’s Grand Californian hotel, gay and lesbian couples sampled wedding cake and posed for photos inside a frame that read, “Just Married … In Iowa City!” …

The Walt Disney Company has purchased Marvel Comics for $4B. Disney said on Monday that it would pay cash and stock to acquire Marvel, the comic book publisher and movie studio whose library of 5,000 characters includes some of the world’s best-known superheroes: Spider-Man, the X-Men, Thor, Iron Man and the Fantastic Four. The deal was valued at about $50 …

Two monorail trains collided at Walt Disney World in Orlando this morning, killing the driver of one of the trains. Walt Disney World spokesman Mike Griffin said the crash happened at about 2 a.m. Sunday, on one of the monorail’s last runs of the day. Austin Wenneberg, 21, a Disney employee who was piloting one of the monorails died at …

From YouTube member Fagottron, a strangely gorgeous take on Mary Poppins. Free MP3 download here. (Tipped by JMG reader Alan T)

One of the nation’s most popular and longest-running series of circuit party events, One Mighty Weekend, will not take place on Disney World property during Gay Days this year in a financial dispute between events producer Johnny Chisolm and the theme park giant. But the details of the dispute are, uh, disputed by two warring circuit party websites. Via South …

Disneyland has announced they will close early on the last day of Gay Days this weekend in order to boot out the queers for the 16th birthday party of Miley Cyrus. Disney will redirect mouse-happy homos over to California Adventure. In what is presumably an oversight on someone’s part, the “Hannah Montana” star’s Sweet 16 celebration with 5,000 of her …

Because America wants a dog food named after beloved family pet that gets rabies and is killed with a shotgun blast from a crying boy. (Via – Slog)

In the Nation, Barbara Ehrenreich writes about the cult of Disney’s Princesses: Disney likes to think of the Princesses as role models, but what a sorry bunch of wusses they are. Typically, they spend much of their time in captivity or a coma, waking up only when a Prince comes along and kisses them. The most striking exception is Mulan, …

Walt Disney has announced that its Fairy Tale Wedding package will now be available to gay couples, meaning that LGBT folks can stage ceremonies at either U.S. resort or on their cruise line. No word on whether they are changing the name of the wedding package (which starts at $8000), but let’s hope they don’t. If I got married at …