Pictur: Gay Days at Disney World through the years – Orlando Sentel

Contents:

• 2017 GAY DAYS @ THE WALT DISNEY WORLD RORT
• HOW DISNEY GAYDAYS QUIETLY BEME A MASSIVE PRI EVENT
• GAY DAYS RETURNS TO WALT DISNEY WORLD AFTER 2-YEAR HIAT
• THIS CHILD ACTOR’S GAY DAYS AT DISNEY ST HIM HIS REER
• WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
• DISNEY GAY DAYS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD
• GAY DAYS IS RETURNG TO DISNEYLAND & CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE
• THE COLORFUL HISTORY OF GAY DAYS AT DISNEY PARKS
• GAY TRAVELERS GATHER AT DISNEY WORLD TO VATN AND MAKE A STATEMENT
• PHOTOS: GAY DAYS IS OFFICIALLY UNRWAY AT DISNEYLAND!
• GAY DAYS ANAHEIM RETURNS TO DISNEYLAND RORT THIS SEPTEMBER
• THE TTH ABOUT WHAT REALLY GO ON AT GAY DAYS AT DISNEYLAND

2017 GAY DAYS @ THE WALT DISNEY WORLD RORT

2017 Gay Days @ the Walt Disney World Rort is jt about four months away and I n't wa! Dan has started the thread this year for what is guaranteed to be another fabuloly fun time at gay days! Oh, and for those of you who have never been to gay days at Disney before, you really have no ia what you have been missg out on!

HOW DISNEY GAYDAYS QUIETLY BEME A MASSIVE PRI EVENT

In 1991, a group of queer iends cid to anize an unofficial "gay and lbian day" at Walt Disney World, a day for a small gatherg of the lol LGBTQ muny to e and vis the theme park together.

They picked a Saturday June bee was one of the slowt days of the year, one current GaysDays official said. Organizers say 's only gog to keep gettg history of GayDaysNow, GayDays is so big that 's impossible to ignore — but atten at the very first Disney meet-up 1991 took measur to not be immediately intified as LGBTQ by the crowd.

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

They cid to all drs red, "not rabow" bee "they wanted to blend and not necsarily offend anybody, " Steve Erics, GayDays creative director, explaed a phone ll on Friday, addg "not everybody was openly gay. "The red shirts stuck around, but GayDays began to grow and grow, beg a regular, unmissable event at the theme park.

It attracted ranr om nservativ — 1998, televangelist Pat Robertson warned that Walt Disney World would be punished wh hurrin for allowg GayDays to take place. But for some participants, was seeg the days actn that ma them sure was somethg Livgston/Getty ImagDrag performer Co Montre, who appeared the petn realy show RuPl's Drag Race, first noticed Disney GayDays long before she was famo — she saw the events firsthand durg the 11 years she worked at Disney World as an entertaer, performg paras and shows. "Montre has been a part of the celebratn for more than ten years now, and she clears her schle to make sure she n appear at GayDays every year, now as one of the celebry fac of the event.

"A chosen fayGayDays, which began as a sgle vis to Disney World's Magic Kgdom, is now a massive, weekend-long event, featurg anized viss to every part of Disney World as well as pageants, pool parti, petns and viss to other area theme parks.

THIS CHILD ACTOR’S GAY DAYS AT DISNEY ST HIM HIS REER

"If you’ve never been to GayDays, ’s one of those tough thgs to expla … It mak the hair on the back of my neck stand up... "That sense of muny has bee even more important after last year's adly massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando. Even though the days have bee a longstandg tradn, GayDays is still unofficial, and not formally associated wh Disney World.

And he's hopeful that the pany will eventually bee an official supporter of GayDays. And, he said, fosterg a sense of fay among the LGBTQ muny is, and always has been, one of the most important parts of GayDays.

– 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.

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

“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.

DISNEY GAY DAYS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

Wh all that’s been wrten about the Walt Disney Company’s embrace of the LGBTQ movement, om affirmg TV shows like When We Rise to movi like Bety and the Beast, om “gay days” at Walt Disney World to out sger Sir Elton John’s mic for The Ln Kg and so on, ’s astonishg that prec ltle has been wrten about Tommy Kirk, Disney’s leadg young male star of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Many a gay boy, myself clud, grew up watchg Tommy mourn his dog Old Yeller (1957), turn to a dog himself The Shaggy Dog (1959), tame the savage wilrns wh his brothers The Swiss Fay Robson (1960) and reluctantly kiss Ante Funicello The Misadventur of Merl Jon (1964).

GAY DAYS IS RETURNG TO DISNEYLAND & CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE

Kirk is gay–which is why he is this lumn the first place–a fact about himself hat he is que open about and willg to talk about his terview:.

But Kirk knew that his homosexualy would jeopardize his movie reer, clash wh his All-Amerin Boy image and anger both the homophobic Disney and Kirk’s “strict Baptist parents”. Though his film-makg days are behd him, Kirk has sce appeared one rnn show produced by the now-gay-iendly Disney Corporatn. '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?

THE COLORFUL HISTORY OF GAY DAYS 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 TRAVELERS GATHER AT DISNEY WORLD TO VATN AND MAKE A STATEMENT

Addnal events and tails n be found on Gay Days Orlando's is there to do at Gay Days?

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. Hopefully, the monorail crawl will clu the "gay cise" ( water taxi ri om the Wilrns Campground to the CR) will still be clud on this year's crawl, too!

PHOTOS: GAY DAYS IS OFFICIALLY UNRWAY AT DISNEYLAND!

We will see what Dano has planned for this if I remember rrectly, last year, the official Crawl started at 7:00pm at the Out for those that wanted an early bird start (LOL) did beg at Fort Wilrns before the official Crawl began and y we did get to enjoy that gay cise.

I will be gog to Gay Days this year but at the moment, I'm gog by myself so I'm lookg for people to hang out wh. We are very exced about that, and we are planng to be there on gay day, Thursday, June 1st!

GAY DAYS ANAHEIM RETURNS TO DISNEYLAND RORT THIS SEPTEMBER

Here is the 1 week mark until Dano's 4th Annual Monorail Crawl and what we nsir to be the kick off of Gay Days at se you haven't read all the threads are the tails for next Wednday, May 31st:. ” The vtment LGBTQ+ fans feel Disney was tted earlier this month when the pany’s CEO, Bob Chapek, fend s reported $250, 000 donatns to backers of Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

S., said would no longer accept money om Disney until took “meangful actn” to stop the “Don’t Say Gay” bill om beg law.

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

Pixar employe wrote their own letter last week, accg s parent pany of guttg “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn” om s films. ” Acrdg to the tech news se Gizmodo, at least eight films have been touted as featurg the stud’s “first” gay character, cludg Onward, Zootopia, and Jungle Cise. Although out gay director Bill Condon hyped Disney’s first “exclively gay moment” leadg up to the release of the live-actn Bety and the Beast remake 2017, the eventual scene took mere sends of screen time.