Gay Days at Disney – Celebrate Pri & LGBT+ History Month - Park Savers

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• WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
• DAT ANNOUNCED FOR GAY DAYS DISNEY WORLD
• GAY DAYS 2023 AT DISNEYLAND RORT CONFIRMED, DAT REVEALED - INSI THE MAGIC
• AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEY
• GAY DAYS RETURNS TO WALT DISNEY WORLD AFTER 2-YEAR HIAT
• DETAILS ON GAY DAYS DISNEY WORLD THIS YEAR
• GAY DAYS IS RETURNG TO DISNEYLAND & CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE
• GAY DAYS AT DISNEY – CELEBRATE PRI & LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH
• GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD AFTER TWO YEARS HIAT
• DISNEY GAY DAYS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD
• WHY ARE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE HEADG TO ORLANDO THIS WEEKEND? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT GAY DAYS
• LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
• THE TTH ABOUT WHAT REALLY GO ON AT GAY DAYS AT DISNEYLAND

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

'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?

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?

DAT ANNOUNCED FOR GAY DAYS DISNEY WORLD

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.

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

Well, ’s one of the largt gay and lbian celebratns the world, wh a few events happeng Disney World. Note that you mt have a valid park ticket, as well as a park pass rervatn to attend any of the Gay Day celebratns the parks. 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.

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.

AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEY

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). — Last Friday eveng, about 6, 000 people — almost all of them gay men — poured to a Walt Disney World water park near Orlando, Fla.

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

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.

DETAILS ON GAY DAYS DISNEY WORLD THIS YEAR

The planng is handled by private pani like One Magil Weekend, Gay Days Inc., and the lbian-foced Girls Wonrland. 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 IS RETURNG TO DISNEYLAND & CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE

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. 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.

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

”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.

GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD AFTER TWO YEARS HIAT

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.

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.

DISNEY GAY DAYS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

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.

WHY ARE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE HEADG TO ORLANDO THIS WEEKEND? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT GAY DAYS

“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.

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. “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.

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

“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.

And we’re about to see those inic red shirts return to the parks soon, as Gay Days is returng to Disney World. After beg nceled last year due to COVID-19, the famed “Gay Days Anaheim” will fally return to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. From September 17th-19th, thoands of people will don the signature Gay Days red shirt and meet up for trivia, svenger hunts, ri takeovers, parti, photoshoots, and so much more.

In 2020, the group behd Gay Days Anaheim held a Mi Gay Days, which was the last event held at the parks before lockdown.

THE TTH ABOUT WHAT REALLY GO ON AT GAY DAYS AT DISNEYLAND

“And now, ” the group’s webse clar, “we are so exced to announce that Gay Days Anaheim will be the VERY FIRST GROUP to return to Disneyland!!! Gay Days Anaheim has been held for over twenty years, though this year marks the first time will take place September stead of October.

The change was the works before the panmic and was requted by Disney as a way for Gay Days to avoid overlappg wh Halloween crowds. The tradn of red shirts stems om the first-ever gay day 1991 at the Magic Kgdom Orlando, Florida.

Those planng to attend this year’s events California n buy the official 2021 red shirt on the Gay Days Anaheim webse. 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.