The History of Walt Disney World's "Gay Days" - Disney Dg

Contents:

• WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
• THE COLORFUL HISTORY OF GAY DAYS AT DISNEY PARKS
• THE HISTORY OF WALT DISNEY WORLD’S “GAY DAYS”
• GAY DAYS AT DISNEY – CELEBRATE PRI & LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH
• THE TTH ABOUT WHAT REALLY GO ON AT GAY DAYS AT DISNEYLAND
• HOW DISNEY GAYDAYS QUIETLY BEME A MASSIVE PRI EVENT
• DAT ANNOUNCED FOR GAY DAYS DISNEY WORLD
• GAY DAYS 2023 AT DISNEYLAND RORT CONFIRMED, DAT REVEALED - INSI THE MAGIC
• GAY DAYS RETURNS TO WALT DISNEY WORLD AFTER 2-YEAR HIAT

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

GayDays® Orlando's Celebratn is not a sgle-day event, is the #1 premier LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer) vatn experience occurg over 5 days durg the weekend June. GayDays® is prised of multiple events staged at world famo attractns, gay & lbian nightclubs, and unique venu secured for the purpose of creatg an clive LGBTQ atmosphere. Commted on diversy and cln, GayDays®wel young, old, all rac and beliefs, parents, AA groups, straight alli and every other sectn of the muny.

THE COLORFUL HISTORY OF GAY DAYS AT DISNEY PARKS

GayDays® 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.

At the only webse officially sanctned by the Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual Communy Center of Orlando (GLBCC) - the birthplace of this multifaceted event. It's been attacked by the Amerin Fay Associatn, 's been bieged by unrver photographers attemptg to vertly pture imag of sexual misnduct one of the favore fay playground, 's endured the dire propheci of Pat Robertson, and has suffered the digny of signs at Disney entranc "warng" others of the prence of large numbers of gay and lbian visors. The protters and the warng signs at the Magic Kgdom entrance have been replaced by sg Cast Members welg GayDayS® visors wh unschled entertament at the Castle Foreurt, expand park operatg hours, and a fireworks display ually rerved for the peak summer season and holidays.

THE HISTORY OF WALT DISNEY WORLD’S “GAY DAYS”

Hotels and motels all over Orlando are signg the "GayDayS® Friendly Pledge" and requts for terviews center around enomic impact and entertament value rather than nflict and ets om hell. What began as a sgle-day vis to the Magic Kgdom has expand to a weeklong vatn celebratn attractg more than 150, 000 GayDayS® revelers to more than 40 cywi events. But the growth of the phenomenonal event was gangly and chaotic, wh no central hub of activy, no GayDayS® rmatn center, and most regrettably, no central agency to help visors acquire tickets for the myriad of events.

When lnched April of 1998, not only did GayDayS® Orlando ga an imprsive state-of-the-art marketg tool, acquired the first ever year-round staff of profsnals dited to tablishg GayDayS® as a fully regnized and rpected addn to the Central Florida tourism and cultural lendar. Is also a member of the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn (IGLTA), the Metropolan Bs Associatn and is a registered seller of travel the state of Florida. Now, hotels are shg to bee a GayDayS® Co-Host Hotel property, natnal bs like Bud Light & Esurance are sponsors, natnal media attend and highlight the major enomic benefs, and the Mayor of Orlando and the Mayor of the Board of County Commissners have offered GayDayS® visors a hearty wele and have even attend GayDays® events.

Whether you attend every party listed the Official GayDayS® Magaze or jt lounge around the Official Host Hotel pools enjoyg the atmosphere; unt yourself among those who ntribute to the succs and growth of an event that's all about beg you. ” The vtment LGBTQ+ fans feel Disney was tted earlier this month when the pany’s CEO, Bob Chapek, fend s reported $250, 000 donatns to backers of Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Pixar employe wrote their own letter last week, accg s parent pany of guttg “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn” om s films.

GAY DAYS AT DISNEY – CELEBRATE PRI & LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH

” Acrdg to the tech news se Gizmodo, at least eight films have been touted as featurg the stud’s “first” gay character, cludg Onward, Zootopia, and Jungle Cise. Although out gay director Bill Condon hyped Disney’s first “exclively gay moment” leadg up to the release of the live-actn Bety and the Beast remake 2017, the eventual scene took mere sends of screen time.

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. Eddie Shapiro, who -found an offshoot of the event at Disneyland 1998, tells TIME that Disney employe ed to hand out “pla whe shirts” to straight ctomers who accintally wore red, the lor Gay Days participants e to intify one another.

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

“Those were nversatns that had to be had wh Disney each step of the way to say, ‘Hey, by the way, that’s the fn of homophobia. Today, Gay Days is timated to be a $100 ln dtry, wh the Orlando event alone brgg over 100, 000 atten annually to what is now a nearly weeklong schle of activi. Even today, Gay Days isn’t actually sponsored by Disney, although Shapiro says the pany works wh his team to ordate the ftivi.

“In supportg Gay Days, they’re able to be clive, but by not producg themselv, they’re able to say to their right-wg base, ‘Hey, everybody’s wele at Disneyland. ” If Disney wants to ntue takg steps forward, many believe that one way to do so is to help prevent Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill om beg law.

In an addrs to staff durg Disney’s annual shareholr meetg on Friday, Chapek nfirmed that he had telephoned DeSantis to “exprs our disappotment and ncern” regardg the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. '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? 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?

HOW DISNEY GAYDAYS QUIETLY BEME A MASSIVE PRI EVENT

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.

DAT ANNOUNCED FOR GAY DAYS DISNEY WORLD

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.

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

Gay Days is an annual event held at the Walt Disney World Rort where LGBTQ+ people and their supporters e om all over to celebrate Pri a safe and welg environment. This year’s Park Gay Days are at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studs on Friday, June 2, Magic Kgdom Park on Saturday, June 3, and EPCOT on Sunday, June 4.

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

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. 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. 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.