Wh Pri Month jt around the rner, here’s everythg you n look forward to for Gay Days at Disney World and the Disneyland Rort.
Contents:
- HOW DISNEY GAYDAYS QUIETLY BEME A MASSIVE PRI EVENT
- 2017 GAY DAYS @ THE WALT DISNEY WORLD RORT
- GAY DAYS AT DISNEY – CELEBRATE PRI & LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH
- WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
- DISNEY GAY DAYS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD
- DAT ANNOUNCED FOR GAY DAYS DISNEY WORLD
- GAY DAYS RETURNS TO WALT DISNEY WORLD AFTER 2-YEAR HIAT
HOW DISNEY GAYDAYS QUIETLY BEME A MASSIVE PRI EVENT
2017 Gay Days @ the Walt Disney World Rort is jt about four months away and I n't wa! My partner and I will be flyg late Tuday May 30th and... * gay week disney 2017 *
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.
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.
2017 GAY DAYS @ THE WALT DISNEY WORLD RORT
Many people head to Disneyland Gay Days each year, which do add to crowds the parks — but will be fun, fay-iendly crowds. * gay week disney 2017 *
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.
"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.
GAY DAYS AT DISNEY – CELEBRATE PRI & LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH
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Even though the days have bee a longstandg tradn, GayDays is still unofficial, and not formally associated wh Disney World.
WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
Gay Days at Disney World is the world's most popular gay and lbian celebratn, attractg over 150,000 gay and lbian travelers to Orlando Florida. It started out as a sgle day the Magic Kgdom has grown to one of the largt gay and lbian events to clu a bs expo, parti, theme park and attractn events and much more. Gay Days tak place the first weekend June Orlando Florida. Gay Days will feature The Gay Days Expo, ncerts, edy events and parti. Schled days for Gay Day at the Parks are also a part of this huge Lbian and Gay celebratn. * gay week disney 2017 *
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. 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! Way 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.
DISNEY GAY DAYS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD
Bob Chapek mentned Disney creatg "spirg" queer ntent when addrsg the pany’s supposed support of the ntroversial "Don’t Say Gay" bill. Here are all Disney’s official gay moments om movi and TV seri. * gay week disney 2017 *
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. 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.
DAT ANNOUNCED FOR GAY DAYS DISNEY WORLD
Disney Gay Days - Walt Disney World Theme Park Guis for gay and lbian * gay week disney 2017 *
Although, Disneyland Paris did host the first-ever Disney-sponsored gay pri event, the Magil Pri Party, 2019 and, for 2023, Disneyland Rort is offerg s very first Disneyland After Dark: Pri Ne. Each year (except for 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19), lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and other queer people – along wh their fay, iends, and LGBTQ+ alli – make the annual pilgrimage to Central Florida to celebrate Pri Month wh Gay Days at Disney World and other area theme parks, cludg Universal Orlando, SeaWorld and Disvery Cove.
GAY DAYS RETURNS TO WALT DISNEY WORLD AFTER 2-YEAR HIAT
Here are the dat for Gay Days Disney World this month! * gay week disney 2017 *
What started as a sgle-day event June 1991 wh around 3, 000 members of the lol LGBT muny at Disney’s Magic Kgdom, Gay Days has sce expand to a massive near-weeklong, cywi extravaganza wh over 180, 000 atten om around the world. Origally anized by the Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual Communy Center of Orlando (GLBCC), today the celebratn is a team effort wh parti, special events, and the GayDays Expo thrown by a number of different queer anizatns at GayDays Host Hotels and other lotns throughout Orlando. While the unofficial uniform of Gay Days was origally jt a practil suggtn, makg easier to fd each other among the crowds, the sea of red is now a way of sayg to the world, “We’re here, we’re queer, get ed to .
There’s even the Gay Biz Expo wh exhibors toutg everythg om fashn, travel, and weddgs to fancial planng servic, healthre, and home renovatns.
Girls jt want to have fun, and for over 20 years, Girls Wonrland has been helpg queer women do jt that durg Gay Days Orlando. Gay Days Anaheim recreat the red shirt magic October each year as part of LGBT+ History Month. Like s sister event, Gay Days at Disneyland has expand om a one-day event to a three-day weekend.
After a two-year spensn due to the ronavis panmic, Gay Days is returng to Central Florida. * gay week disney 2017 *
Lunchtime get-togethers and ri meetups for gay fai and different LGBTQ muni, like lunch at Hungry Bear Rtrant or a plunge down Grizzly River Run for the bears, let atten spend some qualy time wh their tribe.