Gay Days at Disney World celebrate Pri, LGBTQ inty. What to know

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Many people head to Disneyland Gay Days each year, which do add to crowds the parks — but will be fun, fay-iendly crowds.

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HOW DISNEY GAYDAYS QUIETLY BEME A MASSIVE PRI EVENT

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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.

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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. 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.

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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.

"That was probably part of why I wanted to bee a part of GayDays. "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. "Beg volved GayDays is the bt thg ever, " she said.

"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. "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...

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"That sense of muny has bee even more important after last year's adly massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando.

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"GayDays lost five people om the Pulse tragedy, " Erics said. Even though the days have bee a longstandg tradn, GayDays is still unofficial, and not formally associated wh Disney World.

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"Everybody intifi GayDays as Disney, " he said. 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.

Last updated:May 28, 2023Way 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.

From the eedom to jt be yourself at the place Where Dreams Come Te to Disney characters like Ursula and Gaston who have bee gay ins, magic happens when Disney and the LGBT+ muny une. Here’s everythg you n look forward to for Gay Days at Disney.

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In fact, one uld say that parks like Disney World and Disneyland stand as a ttament to gay culture. From the st members that make magic for guts every day to the Imageers that work behd the scen to dream up beloved experienc, you’d be hard-prsed to turn the rner a Disney theme park whout g face-to-face wh somethg or someone that hasn’t been touched by or isn’t a part of the gay muny. A gifted dtrial signer, Bob, then a closeted gay man, was ved to jo Walt Disney Imageerg – lled WED Enterpris at the time – by Walt himself.

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