USA Today reports:
Walt Disney shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal calling for the entertainment giant to drop its participation in a benchmark index used to rank companies on how friendly their policies are to LGBTQ+ people.
The investor proposal presented Thursday at Disney’s annual meeting by the National Center for Public Policy Research, which describes itself as a non-partisan independent conservative think tank, urged Disney to resume a “neutral” stance in political matters.
Disney’s perfect score in the annual Corporate Equality Index survey from LGBTQ+ advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign was due to a “partisan, divisive, and increasingly radical” agenda, the proposal said.
Read the full article. Photo: Disney CEO Bob Iger.
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