Florida polics puts a damper on Orlando ‘gay days’ this year

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• FLORIDA POLICS PUTS A DAMPER ON ORLANDO ‘GAY DAYS’ THIS YEAR
• FLORIDA POLICS PUTS A DAMPER ON ORLANDO ‘GAY DAYS’ THIS YEAR
• FLORIDA POLICS PUTS A DAMPER ON ORLANDO ‘GAY DAYS’ THIS YEAR
• FLORIDA POLICS PUTS A DAMPER ON ORLANDO ‘GAY DAYS’ THIS YEAR
• FLORIDA POLICS PUTS A DAMPER ON ORLANDO ‘GAY DAYS’ THIS YEAR
• FLORIDA POLICS PUTS A DAMPER ON ORLANDO ‘GAY DAYS’ THIS YEAR
• GAY DAYS
• GAY BIZ EXPO & MARKETPLACE TERMS
• AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEY
• FLORIDA POLICS PUTS A DAMPER ON ORLANDO ‘GAY DAYS’ THIS YEAR
• GAY BIZ EXPO 

FLORIDA POLICS PUTS A DAMPER ON ORLANDO ‘GAY DAYS’ THIS YEAR

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FLORIDA POLICS PUTS A DAMPER ON ORLANDO ‘GAY DAYS’ THIS YEAR

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The array of events, loosely fed as “gay days” offergs, draws thoands of tourists to Central this year, Florida’s polil climate worri anizers, who nohels believe many travelers are still g to Orlando spe new laws that affect transgenr people, medil re, drag performers and what subjects are allowed , some prev visors are skippg the 2023 ftivi, they say.

FLORIDA POLICS PUTS A DAMPER ON ORLANDO ‘GAY DAYS’ THIS YEAR

Travel advisori and the recent Lake Nona cint which an electronic traffic sign was altered to read “Kill all gays” ma ternatnal headl and heightened awarens on the heels of the state’s so-lled “don’t say gay” law approved by Gov. “There’s fely ncern out there, ” said Joseph Clark, CEO and owner of Gay Days Inc., which throws multiple parti and activi.

”What started as a small gatherg of onle iends at Disney’s Magic Kgdom 1991 has evolved to a packed schle of hotel pool parti, celebry DJs, bs opportuni, athletic petns and theme park meet-ups assembled by multiple Blackwell, owner of the MojoMan Swimwear & Clothg store Orlando’s Colonial Plaza, operat booths at expos at event hotels for Gay Days and One Magil Weekend. “I was fely a theme-park gay. “Gay days was fely somethg that as I grew up; mold me to beg more fortable wh my sk.

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FLORIDA POLICS PUTS A DAMPER ON ORLANDO ‘GAY DAYS’ THIS YEAR

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FLORIDA POLICS PUTS A DAMPER ON ORLANDO ‘GAY DAYS’ THIS YEAR

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This event cis wh the unofficial event Red Shirt Day (monly referred to as Gay Days), a long-time tradn where members of the LGBT+ muny vis the Disney parks while wearg red shirts as a sign of muny uny. This is not to be nfed wh the other dance and mic ftival takg place the same weekend at a different host hotel, whose anizers actually have a tramark on the name Gay Days…y we know n be nfg! In the days leadg up to our newsletter gog out, there was a lot of discsn about Florida's so-lled Don't Say Gay bill which prevents sexual orientatn and genr inty tn krgarten to third gra the state of Florida.

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As two out, gay, progrsive men, we are naturally upset by the homophobia ntaed this bill and by the polil actors and supporters of s ntents. Generally speakg, we do not support boyttg travel to statns as a rult of anti-LGBT+ legislatn and general tolerance or homophobia. We are equally disgted by this homophobic bill Florida and upset to hear that Disney has fancially supported policians who sponsored and supported this bill.

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

AFTER A POLIL STORM, GAY DAYS RETURN TO DISNEY

)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. I had long heard stori about Gay Days, but I was nfed about what was.

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-LGBTQ vrl that has surround Disney recent months spill over to Gay Days?

FLORIDA POLICS PUTS A DAMPER ON ORLANDO ‘GAY DAYS’ THIS YEAR

LGBTQ anizatns and a torrent of pani cricized the bill, wh opponents llg “Don’t Say Gay.

” they like … a fun place to be gay? Gay Days hasn’t always gone smoothly. In the early years, 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.

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“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.

”The anti-LGBTQ protts culmated 1997, when the Southern Baptist Conventn announced a formal boytt, spurred, part, by Disney’s refal to block Gay Days.

) Would Gay Days 2022 mark a return to that divisive time?

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.

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

And yet homophobia has not disappeared.

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. “About 10 years ago at Gay Days, we were all le our red shirts at Big Thunr Mounta, ” Mathison said, referrg to Disney’s Frontierland roller aster.

If you’re wearg red, means you’re gay! Several 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.

“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.

I asked McKeown, who liv Qucy, Florida, 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? Walt Disney World Rorts hosts one of the biggt gay events of the year wh everythg om pool parti to ternatnal DJs and live shows.

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After Tidal Wave Party announced November 2022 that they were unable to secure a host hotel for this year so they were takg their events to Las Vegas, Orlando’s Big Gay Weekend was left wh a bear-sized hole . A tradn as old as Gay Day at the Magic Kgdom self. Summer is here and that means ’s time to get those red shirts ready for the annual celebratn of Gay Day at Disney’s Magic Kgdom.

Gay Day at Disney first took place on June 1, 1991, ont of Crella’s Castle at the Magic Kgdom jt before the 3 p. After several years at other lotns, GayDayS is back at the Doubletree by Hilton Orlando at SeaWorld and they are memoratg their return wh their theme “Homeg. Along wh events for GayDayS, One Magil Weekend and Girls Wonrland, we also have the latt rmatn on The Pri Cup, KdRED Pri Foundatn’s LGBTQ+ multi-sports petn happeng over three days throughout Central Florida, and everythg you need to know about the gural Bear Jamboree!

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