ORLANDO, Fla. — When Marissa Flint started working at Walt Disney World 12 years ago, she thought she had found a place where she belonged as a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
“I felt like I had a place of employment that could help foster my sense of well being, especially with being newly out of the closet and coming from a small town up north with almost no LGBT people,” said Flint, a lesbian married to another Disney employee.
But that perception has changed after the company failed to take a firm stance against the so-called “don’t say gay” bill, she said, which targets Florida’s LGBTQ+ community by prohibiting instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade classrooms and perhaps even in later grades.
