"Gay Days" has been an unofficial LGBTQIA+ meet-up at Walt Disney World sce the 1990s. But Disney wasn't always so supportive of the event.
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- THIS CHILD ACTOR’S GAY DAYS AT DISNEY ST HIM HIS REER
- NEW BOOK ALLEG WALT DISNEY WAS A GAY PEDOPHILE
THIS CHILD ACTOR’S GAY DAYS AT DISNEY ST HIM HIS REER
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DeSantis’s move was explicly retaliatn to Disney’s opposn to HB 1557, better known as the “Don’t say gay” law.
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NEW BOOK ALLEG WALT DISNEY WAS A GAY PEDOPHILE
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That didn’t disunt “dg” Disney characters (ually villas) as queer, that they exhibed stereotypilly gay attribut such as effemate behavur or distert the oppose sex: Jafar Aladd, for example, or Sr The Ln Kg, or even Shere Khan the tiger The Jungle Book. He moved to Florida and worked for Disney for 15 employe prott agast Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill. One of the unsung LGBTQ+ hero of Disney lore, for example, is Howard Ashman, the openly gay lyricist and producer, who died of an Aids-related illns 1991.
“You didn’t always feel safe as a gay kid, now you’re walkg down Ma Street, USA, and everythg is manicured, everythg is clean. This was the park’s first Gay Day, and has ntued ever sce.
Compose: Guardian DignIn the early years, Disney would warn “straight” visors when was Gay Day and hand out whe T-shirts to non-participants who had advertently turned up wearg red.
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While Disney do not officially regnise Gay Day, soon me to appreciate the mercial clout of the LGBTQ+ muny.
Disney’s ntroversial rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill unrsr the pany’s plited history wh the LGBTQ+ muny — a plex relatnship which Disney has played both champn and punchg bag. * was walt disney gay *
There is no end of rabow-loured Disney merchandise on sale, and Disney acmodat and facilat the Gay Day schle of events, cludg a week-long ftival takg place across the cy, wh club nights, drag shows, pool parti, and special hotel his first Florida Gay Day 1998, Shapiro found a sister Gay Day Anaheim at the Los Angel Disneyland.
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While Orlando Gay Days are more party-centric, the lower-key Anaheim event tak place mostly si the park. Disney now hosts a table at s wele centre promotg fairytale gay weddgs at Disneyland and hosts premier at Gay Day. “Gay Day was never formed wh a polil agenda, ” says Shapiro.
Even if s “openly gay character” proclamatns rarely live up to the billg, there have been fleetg referenc to same-sex relatnships movi cludg Toy Story 4 (two women drop off their dghter at krgarten); Onward (Lena Wahe’s p refers to her girliend); the live-actn Bety and the Beast remake (the character LeFou, played by Josh Gad, is telegraphed as gay and danc wh another man, although not even Gad was particularly proud of that one; “I don’t thk we did jtice to what a real gay character a Disney film should be, ” he admted). Jack Whehall went a step further, playg a gay man Disney’s live-actn film Jungle Cise last year.