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Disney Pulls a Fast One in Florida: Announces a Major LGBT Conference This Fall in Orlando

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Disney is the single largest employer in Florida!  Ron DeSantis,  an outspoken crusader against the rights of LGBT people, took away  the tax advantages of Disney’s “special district; the legislature stripped Disney of its self-governing status & put its operations under a 5-member board appointed by DeSantis.” Here is Disney’s answer: It announced that it will host a major conference promoting the rights of LGBT in the workplace and will be joined by some of the nation’s biggest corporations; this September, gathering executives and professionals from the world’s largest companies in a defiant display of the limits! Dozens of iconic American companies — including Apple, McDonald’s, Uber, Walmart, Hilton, Amazon, Boeing, Cracker Barrel and John Deere — are sponsoring the Out & Equal Workplace summit, which over 5,000 people are expected to attend Read more at: Click Here

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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