Disney Facts

The Truth About
The Walt Disney Company
Here are the FACTS about the Walt Disney Company that you should know.
CHILDREN'S ANIMATED MOVIES

FACT:
In "The Little Mermaid," a scene depicts a priest becoming noticeably aroused while presiding over a wedding. [Editor's Note: This could be the priest's knees. Please check it out for yourself]. Also, a castle spire on the jacket art for the video resembles a phallus.

FACT:
In "Pocahontas," Disney censured out the historical fact that the heroine in the story converted from paganism to Christianity.

FACT:
Actors Ernie Sabella and Nathan Lane said in a New York Times interview that the characters they played (Timon, the meerkat, and Pumbaa, the wart hog) in THE LION KING are "the first homosexual Disney characters ever to come to the screen...."
-NY Times, 6/12/94
OTHER MOVIES

FACT:
Disney signed Martin Scorsese, the director of "The Last Temptation of Christ," to a 4-year contract. -Daily Variety, 1/30/96
FACT:

Disney hired Victor Salva, a convicted child molester, to direct its movie POWDER. When Salva's victim, Nathan Winters (now 20), publicized the hiring, some of the police officers who investigated the 1987 molestation were incredulous that Salva was working again as a movie director. "It just blows me away," said Officer Gary Primavera. He has serious signs of being a pedophile. One Disney official, John Dreyer, refused to respond to Winter's demand that Disney fire Salva, saying, "What's the point other than you want to make headlines?" That's compassion for you. -Washington Times, 10/25/95
FACT:
Disney considers buying RIPE, a movie about the deflowering of 14-year-old twins. -Newsweek 2/12/96

FACT:
Disney hired Kevin Smith to produce two movies:
(1) "Dogma" attacks Christianity by asserting that Christian beliefs are little more than Christian mythology.
(2) "Chasing Amy" is an account of a man's pursuit of a lesbian - Daily Variety, 11/3/95

FACT:
Mark Gill, the president of Disney-owned Miramax (the company which released the anti-Catholic movie "Priest"), admitted that his company thrives on racy, often violent promotion for its movies. PRIEST is a pro-homosexual movie which depicts five Catholic priests as perverts and blames their perversion on Church teachings. One priest is a homosexual; a second an adulterer; a third an alcoholic; a fourth demented; and the fifth just plain mean and vicious. The film is blatantly anti-Christian - Daily Variety 9/13/95, -The Advocate, 4/4/95, 4/18/95; Family Issues Alert, 3/30/95
FACT:

PULP FICTION (Miramax) is a seedy, hyper-violent movie starring John Travolta. It had an NC-17 rating before editing gave it an R rating - Entertainment Weekly, 6/10/94; Daily Variety, 6/15/94

FACT:
Disney-owned Miramax released the homosexual movie, "Lie Down With Dogs." -Daily Variety, 5/16/95

FACT:
Diane Disney Miller, Walt's daughter, publicly condemned the Disney company's involvement with Oliver Stone's historically inaccurate movie, "Nixon." In a letter Miller wrote to the Nixon family, she said, "I am ashamed that the Walt Disney Company - the company my father created - is associated with this disturbing distortion of history." Not surprisingly, Disney officials refused to comment on the letter - USA Today 12/20/95; Daily Variety, 12/20/95; Commercial Appeal, 12/21/95

FACT:
COLOUR OF NIGHT (Hollywood Pictures) shows co-stars Bruce Willis and Jane March entwined in numerous sex scenes featuring full frontal nudity - Entertainment Weekly, 6/10/94; Daily Variety, 6/15/94

FACT:
THE ADVOCATE (Miramax) is filled with nudity, the movie was rated NC-17 (formerly the X rating) but on appeal (and after cutting out a 12-second sex scene) it was given an R - Daily Variety, 8/17/94

FACT:
CLERKS (Miramax), a black and white film about New Jersey convenience store clerks, was originally rated NC-17 because graphic and sexually explicit language is woven throughout the film. On appeal, it was given an R-rating - Daily Variety, 10/12/94

FACT:
KIDS (Miramax) was described by Variety magazine as "one of the most controversial American movies ever made." According to Newsweek, "the film follows a number of barely pubescent looking boys and girls around New York City as they smoke pot, bait gays, beat a black man and engage in graphic sex." Under pressure Miramax formed an independent company to market and distribute the pornographic movie - Daily Variety, 1/27/95; Newsweek, 2/20/95; Wall Street Journal, 3/30/95; Associated Press, 6/29/95

FACT:
CHICKS IN WHITE SATIN (Hollywood Pictures) is a film about a lesbian couple who decide on a semi-traditional "commitment celebration." - Glamour, 8/9/9

FACT:
JEFFERSON IN PARIS (Disney backed) spreads the smear (initiated by his political rivals, but discounted by historians) that Thomas Jefferson fathered children by a 13-year-old slave girl - Insight, 12/5/94

FACT:
In the 1994 Disney movie THE SANTA CLAUSE, the number of an actual phone sex line appears in the film aimed at children and families. -Associated Press, 5/1/96
In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer's name is Yensid, which is "Disney" spelled backward.

TELEVISION, CHILDREN AND FAMILY VALUES
FACT:
Disney recently bought Capital Cities/ABC for $19 billion. On March 19, ABC aired a "Dana Carvey Show" program which featured jokes and laughter about alcohol abuse and cocaine addiction. The same show had a skit called "Under Five on Comedy Central" in which children made crude jokes and resorted to name-calling. Also on the show, Carvey portrayed George Washington using cocaine and Ben Franklin in bed with another man. The same program had a cartoon skit entitled "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" in which two Superman-style heroes are homosexual lovers and drive a super car shaped like male genitalia. Finally, a "Celebrity Bloopers" spoof featured 17 uses of the F-word (bleeped out, of course; but its intent was clear). What more can our children and families expect from ABC?

FACT:
Disney dropped its 17 year-old "Glory and Pageantry of Christmas" display (one of Disney's few concessions to the fact that Christmas is Christian) near Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and replaced it with "Tropical Santa." Elements of the new festival include, "Santa Claus, tree lighting and caroling with tropical elements such as Caribbean and Jazz renditions of Christmas music, a musical stage show with 'Tropical Santa,' street performers for kids, a lighted parade and a holiday sing-a-long and fireworks finale."

PEOPLE, POLICIES AND THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA
FACT:
In June, 1996, Disney helped promote the 6th annual "Gay and Lesbian Day at Walt Disney World." Disney has allowed the homosexual organisers to portray Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as homosexual lovers; and Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck as lesbians.

FACT:
Disney has extended company health benefits to live-in partners of homosexual employees (the policy does not cover unmarried heterosexual couples who live together) - The Orlando Sentinel, 10/7/95; USA Today, 10/19/95; Daily Variety, 10/9/95

FACT:
Disney president Michael Eisner is quoted as saying he thinks 40% of Disney's 63,000 employees are homosexual.

FACT:
Disney has the largest gay and lesbian employee organisation in the entertainment industry.

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Disney helped underwrite the 1993 Hollywood benefit for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force - The Press Enterprise, 12/28/93
FACT:
Disney advertised in Out, a homosexual magazine - Out, 2/94

FACT:
Tom Shumacher, Disney VP of feature animation, is an open homosexual who takes his "husband" to executive retreats. In an interview with the homosexual publication The Advocate, Shumacher said: "There are a lot of gay people (at Disney) at every level. It is a very supportive environment." - Human Events, 8/12/94; The Advocate 6/25/94

FACT:
Disney hired avowed lesbian Lauren Lloyd for the specific purpose of developing female and lesbian movies. OUT magazine, a homosexual publication, praised Disney: "Like it or not, lesbians are not yet chic entertainment attractions for a lot of America. With Lloyd and Disney on our side, though, anything s possible." - Out, 11/94

FACT:
According to monitoring by American Family Association, Disney has been one of the top sponsors of pro-homosexual TV programming.

FACT:
In the May, 1995, issue of BUZZ magazine, contributing editor Steven Gaines reports that a homosexual rights activist said that she was once told by Disney chairman Michael Eisner that "as many as 40% of the company s 63,000 employees might be gay." Thomas Schumacher, an open homosexual and one of the guiding lights behind Disney's billion-dollar hit, THE LION KING, added, "...there are a lot of gay people here at every level."
BUZZ is described as a magazine which "provides readers with perspective on personalities, politics, culture and commerce of Los Angeles, California." The cover story, entitled "Disney Comes Out of the Closet," also reported that Disney has the "largest lesbian and gay employees organisation in the entertainment industry" and that the perception of Disney as having many homosexual employees is "well founded."
In addition to Schumacher, BUZZ names prominent openly homosexual Disney executives: production vice president Lauren Lloyd of Disney's Hollywood Pictures; studio producer Laurence Mark; supervising animator Andreas Deja, the man responsible for the character of Gaston in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST; senior vice president at Disney's interactive division Steven Fields; Rick Leed, who heads the production company that produces the television sitcom HOME IMPROVEMENT. Disney training coordinator Jimi Ziehr said that at Disney's Epcot Centre in Orlando, Florida, "gays outnumber the straights at Futureland operations, and there's nothing in the closet at Guest Relations."
- Buzz, 5/95

BOOKS
FACT:
Hyperion Press, a Disney-owned subsidiary, has published "Lettin' It All Hang Out," the autobiography of RuPaul, a well known "drag queen" (transvestite) entertainer.

FACT:
Hyperian Press also published "Growing Up Gay," written by three homosexual comedians, the book is aimed at "gay youngsters who were bred by heterosexuals."

FACT:
According to Harper's Magazine, Hyperion is planning to publish Daniel Harris' book about "gay culture."