Gay Days are g back to Disneyland October – Orange County Register

Contents:

• WHY ARE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE HEADG TO ORLANDO THIS WEEKEND? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT GAY DAYS
• WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
• GAY DAYS 2023 KICKS OFF AT DISNEY WORLD. WHY LGBTQ VISIBILY THIS YEAR MATTERS MORE.
• LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL
• GAY DAYS 2023 AT DISNEYLAND RORT CONFIRMED, DAT REVEALED - INSI THE MAGIC
• WHEN IS NATNAL GAY DAY?
• LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
• DISNEY WORLD WEL THOANDS OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE TO CELEBRATE GAY DAYS: ‘WE ARE HERE, WE ARE QUEER AND WE AREN’T GOG ANYWHERE’
• THE TTH ABOUT WHAT REALLY GO ON AT GAY DAYS AT DISNEYLAND
• DAY DAY GAYDAY DAY GAY
• ‘GAY DAYS’ AT DISNEY DRAWS HUGE CROWDS DPE LGBTQ+ TRAVEL ADVISORI
• GAY DAYS RETURNS TO WALT DISNEY WORLD AFTER 2-YEAR HIAT
• DISNEY WEL GAY DAYS FLORIDA AS THE FD WH DESANTIS RAG ON
• FIRST UNOFFICIAL GAY DAY AT BCH GARNS WILLIAMSBURG KICKS OFF TOMORROW
• GAY DAYS EXPECTED TO BE WILDLY SUCSFUL DPE SECURY CONCERNS
• DES-LONG 'GAY DAYS' FTIVI RETURN TO FLORIDA DPE DESANTIS VS. DISNEY DRAMA
• 18TH ANNUAL UNOFFICIAL GAY DAYS AT DISNEYLAND ANNOUNCED
• WILL JUNE 26 BE OFFICIALLY SIGNATED "GAY DAY"?
• OUT & ABOUT WH MIKE PGEL – DISNEYLAND FOR GAY DAYS ANAHEIM
• GAY DAYS ARE RETURNG TO DISNEYLAND! - INSI THE MAGIC
• FOR GAY DISNEY PASSHOLRS, IT'S A COMPLITED TIME TO BE A FAN
• GAY DAYS KICKS OFF - ORLANDO FOM
• GAYBORHOOD
• LGBTQ+ PEOPLE HEADG TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL, A S-LONG TRADN

WHY ARE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE HEADG TO ORLANDO THIS WEEKEND? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT GAY DAYS

Arguably the most proment part of Gay Days, participants wear red shirts to specific parks to celebrate their inty or support at the origal gatherg, attendants wore red shirts to make their prence more visible to other members of the, the red shirt self has bee a movement, wh LGBTQ nonprof Kdred Pri Foundatn g as a symbol for s missn to spread diversy and did the event first start?

Some reports claim was held even before then wh only a handful of people startg the 1995, the event had grown to over 10, 000 gays and lbians travelg for 'Gay Day' at the 2010s, the event had reached over 150, 000 LGBT people, their fai, iends and supporters attend the six-day gatherg are Gay Days happeng this year? Ron DeSantis, Disney, and recent legislatn passed, the event is still gog on and many regular Gay Day atten have ma the trek to Orlando this April, the natn's largt LGBTQ advocy group Equaly Florida issued a travel advisory for the LGBTQ+ muny warng members not to e to the state.

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

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.

— recently issued a travel and relotn warng for the state, jog the NAACP, the League of Uned Lat Amerin Cizens, the Florida Immigrant Coaln and Equaly the LGBTQ+ advocy group said wasn’t llg for a boytt of all travel to Florida, said wanted to highlight new laws passed by the Republin-ntrolled Florida Legislature that they said are hostile to the LGBTQ+ muny and rtrict abortn accs, as well as make the state unsafe for many by allowg people to rry ncealed weapons whout a participants the Pri Cup athletic petns at Gay Days cid not to e, forcg the ncellatn of dodgeball and flag football tournaments.

“It’s ls a csa and more like, ‘I’m not gog to spend my money where bad thgs are gog on, ’” Hayn the anizers of Gay Days and their supporters say that Orlando is as gay-iendly a cy as they e, earng a perfect sre on the Human Rights Campaign x, which measur how clive ci are of LGBTQ+ rints and visors. “We live a bubble here Orlando, where even wh the chaos Florida, we feel safe here, ” said Jeremy Williams, edor--chief of Watermark Publishg Group Inc., a Florida-based media pany that is one of the sponsors of Gay 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.

GAY DAYS 2023 KICKS OFF AT DISNEY WORLD. WHY LGBTQ VISIBILY THIS YEAR MATTERS MORE.

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 Clark, the CEO of the Gay Days bs, had his wish, DeSantis would accept an open vatn to see one of the drag shows durg this year's ftivi. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL

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.

“We live a bubble here Orlando, where even wh the chaos Florida, we feel safe here, ” said Jeremy Williams, edor--chief of Watermark Publishg Group Inc., a Florida-based media pany that is one of the sponsors of Gay 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. 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 Clark, the CEO of the Gay Days bs, had his wish, DeSantis would accept an open vatn to see one of the drag shows durg this year’s ftivi.

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. “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.

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

By the time the Stonewall Rts end on July 2, 1969, the gay rights movement went om beg a ge issue largely ignored by policians and the media to ont-page news Gay Pri ParaOne year later, durg the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, activists New York Cy marched through the streets of Manhattan memoratn of the uprisg. The atmosphere at the events n range om r, rnivalque celebratns to strint polil prott to solemn memorials for those lost to AIDS or homophobic June 2000, Print Bill Clton officially signated June as Gay and Lbian Pri Month, regnn of the Stonewall Rts and gay activism throughout the years. 7-acre around the Stonewall Inn where the morn gay rights movement, Gay Pri paras many ci are enormo celebratns: The events Sao Plo, Sydney, New York Cy, Madrid, Taipei and Toronto routely attract up to 5 ln Pri Month has grown populary across the globe, cricism of the events has grown, too.

Many early anizers now cry the mercial fluence and rporate nature of Pri paras—pecially when those rporatns make donatns to policians who vote agast gay, lbian and transgenr Pri events are nohels seen as val protts agast reprsn and isolatn plac such as Serbia, Turkey and Rsia, where Pri paras have been met wh antigay vlence. In May 2019, Donald Tmp regnized Pri Month wh a tweet announcg that his admistratn had lnched a global mpaign to crimalize homosexualy, although crics have noted that actns speak lour than New York Pri Para is one of the largt and most well-known paras to take place, wh over 2 ln people timated to have taken part Month timele1946The First LGBT OrganizatnThe Netherlands Center for Culture adopts a vague name to mask s then taboo 28, 1969The Stonewall RtsNYC police raid the Stonewall Inn, stigatg the Stonewall 28, 1970First Official Pri ParaOrganized by pneerg bisexual activist Brenda Howard and a mtee she put together, the para se supporters march om Greenwich Village to Central 25, 1978The Rabow Flag Fli HighGilbert Baker's origal sign of the rabow gay pri flag is flown at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day 26, 2015Same Sex Marriage RightsThe U. It also giv you the chance to meet new like-md people, knowg that this is a celebratn of acceptance and sh a light on LGBTQ+ issuThe emphasis may be on fun, but 's also the perfect time to thk about and discs issu related to the gay rights movement, pecially as gets more attentn om the media durg this time — om gay marriage and adoptn to transgenr rights.

It’s basic human rights, " Walker IT STARTEDJune has been an important month for the LGBTQ+ rights movement sce New York Cy's first Pri march — then dubbed the “Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day” march — on June 28, event marked an act of fiance om the year before, a 1969 uprisg at New York Cy's Stonewall Inn. Many of the natn’s largt ci — cludg New York, San Francis, Chigo, Denver and Mneapolis — hold their ma march on the last weekend of June, while some ci host their events throughout the month or even at other tim of the wh the march, Pri anizers fill the month of June wh events rangg om readgs and performanc to parti and street Florida this weekend, Orlando-area theme parks and hotels will play host to annual Gay Days events, which are gog ahead even after Gov. Rather, what happens durg Gay Days is that, for one weekend of the year, we get to be the majory stead of the mory; we get to walk down Ma Street holdg the hands of our partners whout worryg about the star we attract; we get to gather wh our fai of choice at Ameri’s favore fay statn and feel like other fai feel every sgle day.

WHEN IS NATNAL GAY DAY?

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough".He said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'".When Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3,000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance blossomed.Three years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos".He relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife."Danny Beard on Same Sex Love and MarriageDanny explor same-sex weddgs, fdg out why upl chose to get married, the challeng unrpng this cisn and what mak the wedd relatnships work.The uple said they now wanted to help people who were not as ee and strive for "equaly for everyone"."Now I'm here a safe place I want to fight for others to be able to marry who they want," Adam said."I'm so lucky but I want everyone else Sdi to marry the one they love whout facg discrimatn and persecutn." Image source, Fay photographImage ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza say they are "very proud" to have been the first same-sex uple married EnglandMore than 40,000 same-sex marriag took place between 2014 and 2020, acrdg to the Office for Natnal StatisticsPeter McGrah and David Cabreza, origally om Stland and the US, ma history when they beme the first same-sex uple to marry England on 29 March 2014.The trailblazers married jt after midnight at Islgton Town Hall.

“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.

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

“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. - Mark Stegall and Robert Motz knew they'd ma the right cisn to travel to Florida when they spotted a sea of people wearg red T-shirts emblazoned wh the words "Say Gay" ont of Walt Disney World's Magic partners om Galburg, Ill., have been g to the annual Gay Days celebratn at Disney for years and ultimately cid they weren't gog to let travel advisori, new state laws targetg the LGBTQ muny and a bter public fd between Florida Gov. "The primary objective of this project is to warn fai before they expose their children to Gay Day's revelry, " the group said a prs release at the as DeSantis spats wh Disney, the park has bee an epicenter for the ernor's culture war agast all thgs "woke" - a term he equently vok to ph legislatn placg rtrictns on the LGBTQ muny.

DISNEY WORLD WEL THOANDS OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE TO CELEBRATE GAY DAYS: ‘WE ARE HERE, WE ARE QUEER AND WE AREN’T GOG ANYWHERE’

"Though we adamantly tried to rec addnal vendors, beme clear that we would be unable to provi the exceptnal experience that our guts have e to expect, " the group May was mglg at a pool party Friday drsed a tangere orange one-piece Marilyn Monroe-style bathg su, gettg ready for the next phase of the Miss Gay Days ntt. Walt Disney Co’s DIS Gay Days kicked off PRIDE month, fyg Florida ernor Ron DeSantis who has been a year-long fd wh the entertament giant for ’s stance agast the state’s Parental Rights Edutn Act — the “Don’t Say Gay” gatherg, which began the 1990s, saw participants and supporters flockg to the amement park celebratn and prott. ) Miss Co Pe: A Gentle Remr which Drag Queen/Monologist/World Savr, Miss Co Pe, wily known for her hilar star turns the films like, Trick and Girls Will Be Girls, will also take the stage her brand new tak to Gay Day at Disney’s California Adventure and the return of the Gay Days Anaheim pool party, PLUNGE!

VIP Gold tickets clu accs to an exclive cktail party wh three-time Emmy nomee, Dot Marie Jon om Glee, Jai Rodriguez, legendary Disney Imageeer Bob Gurr, and Revenge star Nick Wechsler among our days the parks will feature events only available over Gay Days weekend, cludg a fay svenger hunt, a group photo, a lbian ice cream social, group meet ups at varyg attractns, ABC screengs, and many more events targeted to fai, youth, bears, upl and Moeketeers of every ilk.

A plete schle is available at the Gay Days highlights of the weekend clu ee gift bags at the Gay Days Wele Center (loted si the Trillium Room of Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel), film screengs, mixers, a party hosted by the Fay Equaly Council and Days Anaheim is a non-sanctned and UNOFFICIAL Disneyland event and will clu other weekend guts. )@happyhntroo/InstagramLast week, Andrew Rodriguez-Triana, pictured here on the right wh his partner, spoke out agast Disney's lack of a statement on Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Monday, Bob Chapek, the CEO of the Walt Disney Co., issued a memo to staff members statg that the rporatn “unequivolly” supports LGBTQ+ rights but wouldn’t openly nounce the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. ”Self-proclaimed “Disney gays” like Rodriguez-Triana say they’ve been let down, too, and are tired of the half measur: Y, was nice that the pany recently donated proceeds om a Pri llectn to GLSEN, a leadg tn anizatn workg to create safe and clive schools for LGBTQ+ youth ― but then they reportedly give money to lawmakers who want to repeal protectns for LGBTQ workers and legalize so-lled gay nversn therapy.

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

” For the LGBTQ muny, Disney parks n feel like the ultimate “safe space”Jasme Plows, a data scientist btech who liv Los Angel, was so unnerved by Disney’s actns that she started an onle petn mandg Disney publicly “nounce the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and vow not to fund the sponsors aga. ”When Plows found out about Disney’s donatn to “Don’t Say Gay” bill proponents, she was so disappoted she unsubscribed om Disney+, the pany’s streamg service, and nceled her subscriptn to ESPN, which the pany and her wife were wag until the COVID-19 suatn improved before gettg pass aga, but she also put those plans on hold; divtg Disney even on a personal level uld pack a punch, she thought.

“I’m willg to assume Disney provid fancial support to policians behd the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill before the bill existed, but if Disney knew those policians were supportg the bill when they provid support, I’ll be speakg up much lour than I have, ” said Tim Steele, a profsnal dog traer Orlando and an annual passholr at Walt Disney for his annual pass and general fandom, Steele told HuffPost he won’t simply “qu Disney. Relig fundamentalists often preach about the evils of "that part of town, " seeg as a morn-day Sodom and Gomorrah, where prostutn and dg abe n rampant, praved homosexuals have bare buttsecks out of seedy bathho, and where one n't so much as bend over to pick up change whout havg a Leatherman on top of him like whe on rice (how they know all of this is a different story).

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In other ci, gayborhoods are eher upsle parts of town where gay upl wh two and no kids uld settle and make their liv, or workg-class neighborhoods neher expensive nor crime-ridn, where gays would renovate the ho and open bs, gentrifyg the area over time until beme upsle, for better or for worse. Wh the Miami area self, Miami Beach pecially has this reputatn, hence why the 1996 Amerin remake of La Cage x foll moved the settg there; the gay muny is often creded for sparkg Miami Beach's revalizatn after the dg wars of The '80s gave the whole of South Florida a reputatn as Cartel Country. Historilly, New Hope, PA (a Quirky Town/artists' lony at about 1/3 of the way om Philalphia to New York, where the Old York Road cross the Delaware River and th where travelers historilly had to wa before gettg a ferry) was popular wh gay Philalphians and (to a lser extent) gay New Yorkers as a weekend/short vatn getaway.

‘GAY DAYS’ AT DISNEY DRAWS HUGE CROWDS DPE LGBTQ+ TRAVEL ADVISORI

More broadly, New Jersey as a whole has gaed a reputatn as a Straight Gayborhood due to both s longstandg Stepford Suburbia image and s very strong support for LGBT+ rights (cludg beg one of the first stat to legalize civil unns and ban nversn therapy for mors), wh many gay and lbian upl who seek to settle down movg there. Detro has some small LGBT neighborhoods the form of East English Village, Indian Village, Lafayette Park, and Woodbridge; but the ma Gayborhood is the neighborg suburb of Ferndale, where gays first moved to the 1980s followg creased crime the Palmer Park neighborhood of Detro.

From the 1880s through s apex durg the Weimar Republic, Berl as a whole was seen as this for not jt Germany but for Europe general, beg the home of numero gay, lbian, and transgenr nightclubs and Magn Hirschfeld's Instut für Sexualwissenschaft, one of the first major LGBTQ+ rights groups the world. To the extent that Angers, France n be said to have a Gayborhood, La Doutre would certaly qualify; although most bars are the old cy, the few gay bars are what ed to be the seedy, medieval, Dg Addicts And Hookers neighborhood across the river om the cy centre and is now largely gentrified. When Gay Days, one of Disney World’s most popular unofficial events, lnched 1991, the park hung signs outsi the entrance warng heterosexual visors that “members of the gay muny have chosen to vis the Magic Kgdom today their regnn of Gay and Lbian Pri Month, ” acrdg to the New York Tim.

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

Some Christian groups tried to buy airtime durg Gay Days the late 1990s to prsure people to renounce their sexual orientatn, but mastream TV statns Orlando rejected the Clark, the CEO of the Gay Days bs, had his wish, DeSantis would accept an open vatn to see one of the drag shows durg this year’s ftivi. ) For years, Pete Werner, an openly homosexual Disney travel expert (and “gay rights” advote), has been warng parents not to brg their children to Disney World’s var theme parks on the rpective days targeted for “Gay Days”–due to the excsive homosexual PDAs (public displays of affectn) and homo-erotic flntg that go on there, much of aimed at sndalizg fai and kids. I don’t like when I hear pompo wdbags tellg me I’m gog to burn hell for beg gay, and I’m sure most of the ee world would appreciate a vis to Disney World that did not clu the visn of grown men go-go shorts, and ads for lubrint promently displayed throughout the host hotel.

DISNEY WEL GAY DAYS FLORIDA AS THE FD WH DESANTIS RAG ON

FIRST UNOFFICIAL GAY DAY AT BCH GARNS WILLIAMSBURG KICKS OFF TOMORROW

GAY DAYS EXPECTED TO BE WILDLY SUCSFUL DPE SECURY CONCERNS

DES-LONG 'GAY DAYS' FTIVI RETURN TO FLORIDA DPE DESANTIS VS. DISNEY DRAMA

18TH ANNUAL UNOFFICIAL GAY DAYS AT DISNEYLAND ANNOUNCED

WILL JUNE 26 BE OFFICIALLY SIGNATED "GAY DAY"?

OUT & ABOUT WH MIKE PGEL – DISNEYLAND FOR GAY DAYS ANAHEIM

GAY DAYS ARE RETURNG TO DISNEYLAND! - INSI THE MAGIC

FOR GAY DISNEY PASSHOLRS, IT'S A COMPLITED TIME TO BE A FAN

GAY DAYS KICKS OFF - ORLANDO FOM

GAYBORHOOD

LGBTQ+ PEOPLE HEADG TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL, A S-LONG TRADN