Gay Days 2023 at Disney World: everythg to know Florida LGBTQ+ event

Contents:

• WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
• LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
• WHY ARE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE HEADG TO ORLANDO THIS WEEKEND? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT GAY DAYS
• GAY DAYS RETURNS TO WALT DISNEY WORLD AFTER 2-YEAR HIAT
• GAY DAYS ORLANDO 2022

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

1-10), a mil revue, prented by Unseen Imag Theater partnership wh Orlando’s Come Out Wh Pri Celebratn, brgs memori of gay life for men and woman durg the ‘90s. 7), hosted at The Walt Disney Amphheather at Lake Eola Park, will offer a ee eveng of spoken word, mic and arts celebratg and acknowledgg LGBT+ trailblazers of lor and feature performanc by the Orlando Gay Chos, QLatX, Bros Convo and The Sounds of Freedom. 14-18), the largt celebratn of gay women Orlando, returns brgg together female DJs and other world-famo live entertament to celebrate women the LGBTQ muny.

Savoy Orlando, a lively, multi-roomed gay nightclub, featur dancers, billiards, an outdoor pat and is full of themed events for any mood, like Flashback Fridays and Mil Marti Mondays. '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? 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?

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

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? 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. We’ve also been at the foreont of LGBTQ+ tourism sce the origal GayDayS 1991 wh other high-profile events butg the s sce.

11) and October’s Natnal Gay and Lbian History Month, the ftival is also partnered wh more than a week of official related events om Oct. Kick off Orlando’s Come Out Wh Pri week wh the sweet serena of the small group ensembl of the Orlando Gay Chos (OGC). Jo the fun and ivoly of Orlando Gay Chos’ 14th annual Uncut Cabaret, this year wh a Hallo-weenie twist.

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

A highly clive statn, Orlando has been a pneer LGBTQ+ tourism datg back to the origal Gay Days 1991.

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

We were also named the first-ever “Cy of the Year” by, as well as a 2022 Gay Travel Awards wner for the Fay Dtatn tegory. The Milk District is also home to The Plaza Live, which is the only place to see performanc by the Orlando Gay Chos. At SAVOY Orlando the Ivanhoe Village Ma Street district adjacent to downtown, the Men of SAVOY dancers perform nightly, makg this one of the area’s preement gay bars.

Orlando weled gay marriage wh a mass weddg on the steps of Cy Hall 2015 — and we would love to host yours next. — 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.

GAY DAYS ORLANDO 2022

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 missn of Zebra Coaln is to support and spire LGBTQ+ youthZebra Coaln is a work of anizatns, which provi servic to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and all youth (LGBTQ+) ag 13 – 24.