Ron DeSantis should remember the first rule of Disney. Evil never wins.

LGBTQ people (and Disney) are here to stay in Florida, whether Ron DeSantis likes it or not.

Winter 2015 Cinderella Castle, Disney World, Orlando FL
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Once upon a time, in December, I celebrated my beautiful, joyful, queer love with a wedding reception on Disney World property. As an LGBTQ person, I have always been treated well by Disney staff and guests, and the same was true at my wedding and the next day when my spouse and I went to the parks dressed just like all of the straight couples: wearing matching couple shirts, Mickey wedding ears, and Disney-provided “Just Married” pins. The staff and guests (with a few exceptions who assumed I was marrying my gay best man) all congratulated us and wished us well, and numerous LGBTQ staff shared their identities with us in solidarity.

For 99 years–next year is Disney’s centennial–Disney fairytales have given us countless stories of happily ever after. But the happy endings never happen until the battle in which love triumphs over hate.

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My fairy tale wedding was possible thanks to generations of LGBTQ people who suffered hate, including the lives taken at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, and relentlessly fought for rights, and against discrimination.

Today, Disney’s latest villain is Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who is waging a war of petty revenge against one of America’s biggest cultural institutions, its employees, and the surrounding residents. His hatred towards LGBTQ people runs so deep that he actually thinks he will be able to run a cultural icon like Disney–and all of its properties–and its LGBTQ workers and Florida LGBTQ communities out of town.

That’s not to say Disney is without blame though. For years, Disney has…

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