Large Crowd Expected For Disney ‘Gay Days’ Dpe Warngs To Avoid State | The Daily Caller

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• LARGE CROWD EXPECTED FOR DISNEY ‘GAY DAYS’ DPE WARNGS TO AVOID STATE
• LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
• 'GAY DAYS AT DISNEY' WARNG WAS BRILLIANT, SAYS FAY GROUP
• LGBTQ+ PEOPLE ATTEND 'GAY DAYS' FLORIDA SPE TRAVEL WARNGS
• LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL
• GAY DAYS 2023 AT DISNEYLAND RORT CONFIRMED, DAT REVEALED - INSI THE MAGIC

LARGE CROWD EXPECTED FOR DISNEY ‘GAY DAYS’ DPE WARNGS TO AVOID STATE

Hors of LGBTQ+ people are head to Florida to participate Walt Disney World’s annual “Gay Days, ” spe a proment LGBT anizatn’s warng that the state is homophobic and should be avoid. Gay Days anizers have been enuragg members of the LGBT muny to show up to this year’s ftivi large numbers, spe warngs to avoid the state. Gay Days at Disney brgs more than 100, 000 together at the most magil place on Earth!

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

It’s not the time to go away, ” said Joseph Clark, CEO of Gay Days Inc. Ron DeSantis has signed a variety of laws that crics have labeled as homophobic or transphobic. The Parental Rights Edutn Act, monly referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, origally rtricted the teachg of genr and sexual orientatn krgarten through third gra and required that discsns of those topics later gras be age appropriate.

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.

Disney released a statement on March 3 but didn’t directly mentn the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which was later passed to law. Related: Disney Pri Collectn Creator Comms To Year-Round Gay Pri Merchandise. 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).

'GAY DAYS AT DISNEY' WARNG WAS BRILLIANT, SAYS FAY GROUP

In the 1990s, the gural Gay Days h Walt Disney World Rort – thoands of members of the LGBTQIA+ muny held an unofficial meetup at Magic Kgdom. Of urse, Disney uldn’t ban Guts om s Parks due to their sexualy, stead optg to stall a sign warng Guts of a “gatherg of homosexuals” at Magic Kgdom on one Gay Day, acrdg to a 2000 report by The Ledger. The former Pleasure Island nightclub at Downtown Disney (now Disney Sprgs) held official events June for Gay Days and Pri Month, and Disney allowed anizers to rent Typhoon Lagoon for a private Gay Days event.

LGBTQ+ PEOPLE ATTEND 'GAY DAYS' FLORIDA SPE TRAVEL WARNGS

Gay Days has spread to SeaWorld Orlando, Universal Orlando Rort, Universal Studs Hollywood, and Disneyland Rort Anaheim, California. In 2013, a right-wg actn group flew a banner over Walt Disney World Rort warng Guts about “Gay Days. — Tens of thoands of LGBTQ people are flockg to central Florida this weekend to go on theme park ris, mgle wh stumed performers, dance at all-night parti and lounge poolsi at hotels durg Gay Days, a s-long though Gov.

Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers have champned a slew of anti-LGBTQ laws — spurrg the most proment gay rights group the U.

And other civil rights anizatns to issue warngs the Sunshe State may no longer be safe — Gay Days anizers are still enuragg visors om around the world to e to one of Florida’s largt gay and lbian say a large turnout will send a msage that LGBTQ people are not gog away Florida, which is ntually one of the most popular stat for tourists to vis. If the hoped-for 150, 000 or more visors e to the half-week of pool parti, drag bgo and thrill ris at Orlando’s theme parks and hotels, then “that’s the pot, ” said Joseph Clark, CEO of Gay Days Inc. ”It’s not lost on the anizers that the highlight of the weekend will be a Saturday meetup of LGBTQ visors at the Magic Kgdom at Walt Disney World, where the first Gay Days started as a sgle-day celebratn 1991.

LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL

Currently, Disney is embroiled a legal fight wh DeSantis over the ernor and Republin lawmakers’ takeover of Disney World’s erng district — after Disney officials publicly opposed legislatn that crics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay. “It’s ls a csa and more like, ‘I’m not gog to spend my money where bad thgs are gog on, ’” Hayn Days has survived past challeng, cludg the early years when Disney posted signs at the Magic Kgdom’s entrance warng visors there was a large gatherg of gays and lbians and offerg pass to other parks for guts who might be offend.

Over the last three s, though, the theme parks and rorts have thrown down the wele mats as Gay Days has bee a profable bounce between the sprg break and out-of-school summer crowds.

Durg Gay Days the 1990s, hundreds of anti-abortn activists wh Operatn Rcue protted outsi Walt Disney World, and the Southern Baptist Conventn ced the gatherg llg for a boytt of all thgs Disney. Some Christian groups tried to buy air time durg Gay Days the late 1990s to prsure people to renounce their sexual orientatn, but mastream TV statns Orlando rejected the ads. The aircraft-flown banner that warned people about Gay Pri Days at Disney World was “brilliant, ” said the head of a Florida fay group.

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

It has never been done before and I thk ’s very appropriate light of the very appropriate nature that was gog on at the time, ” said John Stemberger, print of the Florida Fay Policy Council, to The Christian Post on Florida Fay Associatn, no relatns to FFPC, chartered an aircraft to pull two seven-foot high banners – one on Friday and one on Saturday – above the Disney World area to warn potential park goers that atten of Gay Pri Days would vis the Magic Kgdom on June 15, 000 gay atten entered the Disney park on Saturday pared to the normal level of 30, 000 children and their Caton, executive director of Florida Fay Associatn, told CP that members of his staff have been at Disney World durg Gay Days for 18 of the 21 years that the event has occurred.

”For Stemberger, his problem wh Gay Days at Disney is how atten “flnt” their sexualy when children are around, and that Disney allows the event to take place durg normal bs hours when other groups have to e after hours to hold their events. The issue is why don’t Disney warn the parents and say this is Gay Day? ”The Florida pro-fay lear said hundreds if not thoands of Disney park goers have unspectgly vised durg the Gay Days and were offend and left whout a refund.