Bob Chapek
Robert Alan Chapek (born 1960) is a Liberal Hollywood executive who currently serves as CEO of Disney. He took over after Robert Iger resigned in early 2020, and started making more headlines in 2022 regarding Disneyâs response to Floridaâs Parental Rights in Education Act which banned the teaching of teaching sexual orientation to kids below 4th grade.
Controversy
In 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education Act which liberal opponents have dubbed âThe Donât Say Gay Bill.â Many liberal companies condemned Florida, but Chapek was reluctant at first, and headlines popped up that Pixar employees wanted to put more homosexual stuff in their content, but it kept getting censored by Disney, and many of their movies went straight to Disney+ rather than getting a theatrical release like Disney films such as Encanto. Eventually, Disney made a statement condemning the bill, and that resulted in Disney losing their self governing status in Disney World with their stocks tanking to below $100. Despite this, Chapek and Disney have continued to double down, and included a homosexual kissing scene in Pixarâs Lightyear which got a theatrical release, and it was Pixarâs biggest bomb since The Good Dinosaur. (Onward was a failure as well, but that has an asterisk due to theaters shutting down early due to the COVID-19 pandemic.)