Pri 2023: LGBTQ people flock to Florida for Disney's Gay Days celebratn

Contents:

• AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEY
• GAY DAYS 2023 AT DISNEYLAND RORT CONFIRMED, DAT REVEALED - INSI THE MAGIC
• GAY DAYS RETURNS TO WALT DISNEY WORLD AFTER 2-YEAR HIAT
• DETAILS ON GAY DAYS DISNEY WORLD THIS YEAR
• WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
• GAY DAYS ANAHEIM RETURNS TO DISNEYLAND RORT THIS SEPTEMBER
• AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEYHOME BLOG CLOCKS AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEYHAWA’S HIP-HOP JOURNEY OM THE PHILHARMONIC TO FASHNJUNE 10, 2022STEPH CURRY IS BOOSTG BLACK DIGNERS AT THE N.B.A. FALSJUNE 10, 2022SHOW ALL0AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEY
• LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
• DAT ANNOUNCED FOR GAY DAYS DISNEY WORLD
• GAY DAYS WILL RETURN TO DISNEYLAND 2021!
• SEA OF RED SHIRTS TO RETURN FOR GAY DAYS ANAHEIM AT DISNEY PARKS
• GAY DAYS ARE RETURNG TO DISNEYLAND! - INSI THE MAGIC
• DISNEY’S GAY DAYS RETURN IN THE MIDST OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ POLIL FIGHT
• GAY DAYS IS COMG BACK TO DISNEYLAND THIS YEAR
• GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEYLAND RORT! - INSI THE MAGIC

AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEY

— Last Friday eveng, about 6, 000 people — almost all of them gay men — poured to a Walt Disney World water park near Orlando, Fla. I was there on a fact-fdg Ripti event was part of what is rmally known as Gay Days, a four-day Pri extravaganza at Disney World and nearby hotels that attracts tens of thoands of L.

Visors each started 1991, when a smatterg of gay adults — Disney obssiv all — ed ter msage boards to plan a gatherg: Let’s buy tickets to Disney World’s Magic Kgdom theme park on the first Saturday June and wear red shirts a display of uny.

And, of urse, ri Space Mounta and pose for photos wh Simmons for The New York Simmons for The New York Simmons for The New York TimGay Days soon expand to other Disney World parks cludg Ept, Animal Kgdom and Disney’s Hollywood Studs, and a number of adult-oriented events sprang up at non-Disney hotels the area, cludg pool parti, dance nights and drag petns. )Disney has never endorsed Gay Days, a versn of which tak place the fall at Disneyland California. The planng is handled by private pani like One Magil Weekend, Gay Days Inc., and the lbian-foced Girls Wonrland.

GAY DAYS 2023 AT DISNEYLAND RORT CONFIRMED, DAT REVEALED - INSI THE MAGIC

I’m admtedly the uptight-soccer-dad variety of gay man, but the ponents did not seem to f year, another qutn arose: Would the anti-L. Simmons for The New York Simmons for The New York Simmons for The New York TimGay Days hasn’t always gone smoothly.

GAY DAYS RETURNS TO WALT DISNEY WORLD AFTER 2-YEAR HIAT

Shapiro said, Disney even hand out whe shirts to straight people who had shown up wearg red and were terrified of beg mistaken for gay. “People would be at the entrance wh Bibl and signs sayg we were gog to hell, ” said Robert Mathison, 59, who began attendg Gay Days wh the man who would bee his hband and their son the early 1990s.

DETAILS ON GAY DAYS DISNEY WORLD THIS YEAR

Protts culmated 1997, when the Southern Baptist Conventn announced a formal boytt, spurred, part, by Disney’s refal to block Gay Days. Unls you unt a few hairy, heavyset men — bears, gay slang — bbg belli at the Ripti party a pool area emed “bear lagoon” while wearg bootleg “Ltle Mermaid” tnks.

)On Saturday morng, as “Let’s Go Fly a Ke” om “Mary Popps” played on the loudspeakers, Gay Days participants streamed to Disney World. Many of them wore red shirts wh the words “SAY GAY” on the back, a reference to the recent ntroversy.

WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.

”Both women said a favore part of Gay Days volved nng to alli, cludg volunteers om Free Mom Hugs, an L.

Although Disney do not sponsor or promote Gay Days, s Parks & Rorts divisn celebrat Pri month wh a barrage of rabow merchandise s shops, cludg a button featurg Mickey Moe and a rabow along wh the slogan “Belong, Believe, Be Proud. The only tensn I saw me om a gay man who was cranky that a Disney manager had told him that his shirt uld be viewed as appropriate. ”There were loads of people red shirts who were not at Disney World for Gay Days — and none seemed to re when they learned of the lor’s signifince on this day.

GAY DAYS ANAHEIM RETURNS TO DISNEYLAND RORT THIS SEPTEMBER

“About 10 years ago at Gay Days, we were all le our red shirts at Big Thunr Mounta, ” Mr.

McKeown Simmons for The New York TimSeveral longtime Gay Days atten shared a siar wistfulns for Gay Days gone by, addg that the -agast-the-world pr rps that was such an important part of the event has waned. Society has bee more acceptg, and some younger Gay Days atten don’t even bother to show up red shirts at the Magic Kgdom, preferrg to party poolsi.

AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEYHOME BLOG CLOCKS AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEYHAWA’S HIP-HOP JOURNEY OM THE PHILHARMONIC TO FASHNJUNE 10, 2022STEPH CURRY IS BOOSTG BLACK DIGNERS AT THE N.B.A. FALSJUNE 10, 2022SHOW ALL0AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEY

“There is ls of a stigma, which is posive, ” Richard Holley-Byrd, 45, told me as we exed the Country Bear Jamboree, a rny mil review that tak on a double meang durg Gay Days.

McKeown, who liv Qucy, Fla., to help me make sense of somethg: If nservativ were so upset about Disney’s supposed “gay agenda, ” why was none of that nasts visible durg Gay Days? More about Brooks BarnA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn ST, Page 10 of the New York edn wh the headle: After Polil Storm, Gay Days Return to Disney. In the 1990s, the gural Gay Days h Disneyland and Walt Disney World Rort – thoands of members of the LGBTQIA+ muny held an unofficial meetup at Magic Kgdom and Disneyland Park.

Gay Days has officially announced that the fan meetup will return to Disneyland Rort om September 22 to 24, 2023.

LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN

Gay Days might be an unofficial event, but Disney has long taken a progrsive stance toward gay marriage and LGBTQIA+ issu. In the 1990s, before the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnwi, The Walt Disney Company offered gay and lbian employe surance for their partners.

In Febary, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis troduced the Parental Rights Edutn Act, also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Disney released a statement on March 3 but didn’t directly mentn the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which was later passed to law. Other nservative Republin policians like Senator Josh Hawley and Senator Mar Rub publicly attacked Disney for s stance on the law and refal to censor a gay kiss Pixar’s Lightyear (2022).

– After a two-year spensn due to the ronavis panmic, Gay Days is returng to Central Florida. Acrdg to the event webse, the LGBTQ+ celebratn is prised of multiple events staged at world-famo attractns, gay & lbian nightclubs, and unique venu secured for the purpose of creatg an clive LGBTQ atmosphere. “Gay Days began 1991 as a sgle signated day (always the first Saturday June) when the LGBTQ muny and iends were enuraged to ‘Wear Red and Be Seen’ (aka #RedShirtDay) while visg the world’s most popular theme parks, ” lears scribed on the event’s return to Walt Disney World amid ntroversy surroundg the recent signg of Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law, known to s crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

DAT ANNOUNCED FOR GAY DAYS DISNEY WORLD

“Recently the CEO of the Walt Disney Company ially rpond to the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill which he thought bt to oppose the legislatn ‘behd the scen’ and has sce faced tremendo cricism and backlash for how the pany has rpond to such an impactful bill, ” the anizatn said a statement. “We hope that the recent events will enurage our atten more than ever to attend Gay Days Orlando 2022 this g June as now is the time to e together and show the world the immortal words of Queer Natn ‘We’re here.

GAY DAYS WILL RETURN TO DISNEYLAND 2021!

And we’re about to see those inic red shirts return to the parks soon, as Gay Days is returng to Disney World. 'We have to be on guard a lot':Why safety first for so many LGBTQ travelers'I jt want to see more of ':The importance of seeg people like you while travelgHow did Gay Days get started?

SEA OF RED SHIRTS TO RETURN FOR GAY DAYS ANAHEIM AT DISNEY PARKS

Gay Days Orlando started three s ago wh a group of iends who cid to meet up at Disney World red shirts. It has sce ballooned to an annual, multiday event, which draws upwards of 180, 000 people to the Orlando area om across the Fai:LGBTQ people need of stand- parents at weddgs, holidays fd 'fay' Facebook groupWhen are Gay Days 2023?

Arguably the most proment part of Gay Days, red shirt daysare when participants wear red shirts to specific parks to celebrate their inty or support others.

For stance, June 1 is a red shirt day at Disney's Animal Kgdom and SeaWorld Orlando and June 2 is a red shirt day at Disney's Hollywood Studs and Universal Islands of attends Gay Days?

GAY DAYS ARE RETURNG TO DISNEYLAND! - INSI THE MAGIC

Many Gay Days atten vis theme parks, but there are a host of other activi cludg popular pool parti, Drag Bgo, expos and more at the event's host hotel Orlando.

Some events are adults-only, but most are open to all ag, cludg the Miss GayDays pageant, which this year will be hosted by CoCo Montre, who peted on "RuPl's Drag Race, " and Miss GayDays 2019 Twila actually par the event to a fay rnn, specifilly "the fay that gets along rnn. Given the polil climate the state and last year's enactment of what crics ll Florida'sDon't Say Gay law rtrictg discsns of sexual orientatn and genr inty primary schools, Clark said some people have asked him if this year's event would still happen. Disneyland and Disney California Adventure will once aga be filled wh a sea of red Gay Days T-shirts this year as the unofficial annual event celebratg LGBT pri returns to the Anaheim theme parks after a panmic-duced hiat 2020.

DISNEY’S GAY DAYS RETURN IN THE MIDST OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ POLIL FIGHT

The unofficial Gay Days Anaheim mix- event returns to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure on Sept. The 412-day ronavis closure of Disneyland and DCA forced the ncellatn of Gay Days 2020 on the first weekend October.

Plans to move Gays Days om October to September have been the works sce 2018 — wh an eye toward steerg clear of the creasgly crowd Halloween season. Gay Days 2021 was always tend to be the first year on the new weekend September after more than two s of takg place October,. Today, the penntly anized annual event brgs more than 30, 000 Gay Days atten to Anaheim’s Disney parks durg the three-day event.

Gay Days Orlando attracts more than 100, 000 atten each June to Walt Disney World Florida.

GAY DAYS IS COMG BACK TO DISNEYLAND THIS YEAR

The annual Gay Days Anaheim mix- event brgs a sea of red T-shirts every year to Disneyland and DCA. The official Gay Days Anaheim T-shirt 2019 featured a Star Wars theme wh a stormtrooper on the ont and the slogan “May the Fierce Be Wh You. The schle has not been set yet for Gay Days 2021 — but past years serve as a gui for what to expect.

GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEYLAND RORT! - INSI THE MAGIC

Excg news for Pri month: Gay Days will return to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure on September 17th through the 19th.