Gay Days at Disney World celebrate Pri, LGBTQ inty. What to know

Contents:

• GAY DAYS AT DISNEY – CELEBRATE PRI & LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH
• LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
• DISNEY EXEC VOWS MORE GAY CHARACTERS AMID HUGE CLIVY PH
• WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
• AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• DISNEY’S “DON’T SAY GAY” STANCE WASN’T THE FIRST TIME BETRAYED S LGBTQ FANS

GAY DAYS AT DISNEY – CELEBRATE PRI & LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH

Way before the teemg Red Shirt-wearg mass began scendg upon the Disney Parks for Gay Days, queer people have long had a love affair wh Disney. From the eedom to jt be yourself at the place Where Dreams Come Te to Disney characters like Ursula and Gaston who have bee gay ins, magic happens when Disney and the LGBT+ muny une. Here’s everythg you n look forward to for Gay Days at Disney.

In fact, one uld say that parks like Disney World and Disneyland stand as a ttament to gay culture. From the st members that make magic for guts every day to the Imageers that work behd the scen to dream up beloved experienc, you’d be hard-prsed to turn the rner a Disney theme park whout g face-to-face wh somethg or someone that hasn’t been touched by or isn’t a part of the gay muny.

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

A gifted dtrial signer, Bob, then a closeted gay man, was ved to jo Walt Disney Imageerg – lled WED Enterpris at the time – by Walt himself. Although, Disneyland Paris did host the first-ever Disney-sponsored gay pri event, the Magil Pri Party, 2019 and, for 2023, Disneyland Rort is offerg s very first Disneyland After Dark: Pri Ne. Celebratg Pri Month Wh Gay Days at Disney World.

Each year (except for 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19), lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and other queer people – along wh their fay, iends, and LGBTQ+ alli – make the annual pilgrimage to Central Florida to celebrate Pri Month wh Gay Days at Disney World and other area theme parks, cludg Universal Orlando, SeaWorld and Disvery Cove. What started as a sgle-day event June 1991 wh around 3, 000 members of the lol LGBT muny at Disney’s Magic Kgdom, Gay Days has sce expand to a massive near-weeklong, cywi extravaganza wh over 180, 000 atten om around the world.

Origally anized by the Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual Communy Center of Orlando (GLBCC), today the celebratn is a team effort wh parti, special events, and the GayDays Expo thrown by a number of different queer anizatns at GayDays Host Hotels and other lotns throughout Orlando. While the unofficial uniform of Gay Days was origally jt a practil suggtn, makg easier to fd each other among the crowds, the sea of red is now a way of sayg to the world, “We’re here, we’re queer, get ed to . There’s even the Gay Biz Expo wh exhibors toutg everythg om fashn, travel, and weddgs to fancial planng servic, healthre, and home renovatns.

DISNEY EXEC VOWS MORE GAY CHARACTERS AMID HUGE CLIVY PH

Girls jt want to have fun, and for over 20 years, Girls Wonrland has been helpg queer women do jt that durg Gay Days Orlando.

Celebratg LGBT+ History Month Wh Disneyland Gay Days.

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

Gay Days at Disney World was so popular that the ftivi eventually spread to the wt ast as well. Gay Days Anaheim recreat the red shirt magic October each year as part of LGBT+ History Month. Like s sister event, Gay Days at Disneyland has expand om a one-day event to a three-day weekend.

AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Lunchtime get-togethers and ri meetups for gay fai and different LGBTQ muni, like lunch at Hungry Bear Rtrant or a plunge down Grizzly River Run for the bears, let atten spend some qualy time wh their tribe.

Pl, you won’t want to miss the group photo opportuni so you n memorate the gay tim that were had. Have you been to Gay Days at Disney World or Disneyland? Controversial Florida legislatn roilg the Moe Hoe uld have ripple effects at Disneyland as LGBTQ employe prepare to walk off the job prott of Disney’s rponse to the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Disney CEO Bob Chapek has been ught the middle of a media firtorm for his handlg of the pany’s rponse to Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill that would prohib classroom discsn about sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra.

DISNEY’S “DON’T SAY GAY” STANCE WASN’T THE FIRST TIME BETRAYED S LGBTQ FANS

Chapek issued a mea culpa an email to the pany’s LGBTQ muny askg fivens for not standg up strongly enough agast Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and pledgg allegiance the fight for equal rights. DeSantis slammed Disney for promotg a “woke” iology after Chapek fally nounced the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Disney is reasssg polil mpaign donatns the wake of the pany’s rponse to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, acrdg to Chapek.

”The Walt Disney Company, one of the world’s biggt media and entertament empir, pris self on a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) iendly culture. But today s reputatn for clivy and tolerance is unr scty – as are s ep ti to the polil tablishment and the lack of LGBTQ reprentatn s ’s workers have been stagg walkouts prott at chief executive Bob Chapek’s lackltre rponse to Florida legislatn dubbed “don’t say gay”.

But their prejudic were laid bare by a tweet om Christa Phaw, prs secretary for Florida’s ernor, Ron DeSantis, that said: “The bill that liberals accurately ll ‘don’t say gay’ would be more accurately scribed as an anti-groomg bill. It has been nmned as “hateful” by Joe Bin and other Democrats who argue that monis LGBTQ, prs secretary of the LGBTQ rights anisatn Equaly Florida and a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shootg 2016, says: “The ‘don’t say gay bill’ was dubbed that by the muny bee is a bigoted, very specifilly anti-LGBTQ piece of legislatn signed to censor classroom speech about our muny. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invisn/APYet the “don’t say gay” bill wrong-footed Chapek, who succeed Bob Iger as chief executive Febary 2020.