GAYTIMES

Contents:

• HAPPY PLACE FTIVAL: GAY TIMES JOS LE-UP FOR FEARNE COTTON’S SELF-RE FTIVAL
• GAY TIMES TO PRENT THE GREAT ESPE’S FIRST-EVER LGBTQ+ STAGE
• HAPPY PLACE FTIVAL: GAY TIMES JOS LE-UP FOR FEARNE COTTON’S SELF-RE FTIVAL
• GAY TIMES CELEBRAT THE POWER AND BRILLIANCE OF THE TRANS+ MUNY NEW ISSUE
• LGBTQ+ PEOPLE HEADG TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL, A S-LONG TRADN
• GAY PRI
• MOSW BANS GAY PRI EVENTS FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS

HAPPY PLACE FTIVAL: GAY TIMES JOS LE-UP FOR FEARNE COTTON’S SELF-RE FTIVAL

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRYGaytim wish to acknowledge the tradnal owners and ctodians of the land on which the event tak place, the Bunurong/Boon Wurng and Wundjeri People of the Kul Natn, and pay rpects to their elrs past and prent. Gaytim Ftival is supported by Creative Victoria’s MicWorks fundg and the Victorian Government.

GAY TIMES will prent s first-ever stage The Great Espe’ mic ftival Brighton. “Mic has given some of our greatt LGBTQ+ ins, which is why GAY TIMES remas mted to supportg the queer superstars of tomorrow, ” said Lewis Corner, Edorial Director of GAY TIMES. It exists to showse more than 450 up and g artists om across the world by takg over 35 walk-able venu across the regn, wh this year’s celebratns havg a special foc on LGBTQ+ talent through s partnership wh GAY TIMES.

GAY TIMES TO PRENT THE GREAT ESPE’S FIRST-EVER LGBTQ+ STAGE

“To show our support we have lnched our first dited LGBTQ+ stage wh GAY TIMES featurg some of mic’s hottt new talent. The four acts takg to the stage prented by GAY TIMES have all proven themselv forc to be reckoned wh. GAY TIMES’ Edorial Director Lewis Corner has been add to the le-up for this year’s Happy Place Ftival London.

HAPPY PLACE FTIVAL: GAY TIMES JOS LE-UP FOR FEARNE COTTON’S SELF-RE FTIVAL

The brand new issue of GAY TIMES Magaze is champng the bety of the trans, non-bary and genr non-nfirmg muni. You n read GAY TIMES’ brand new issue full om 18 March via the GAY TIMES app, Apple News+, Readly, and Flipster.

— 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. Gay Days is a bon ’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. 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.

GAY TIMES CELEBRAT THE POWER AND BRILLIANCE OF THE TRANS+ MUNY NEW ISSUE

— 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. But the multisport petn that is held annually at Gay Days will still have beach volleyball, golf, pickleball and before the travel advisori were issued, some regular Florida visors were rensirg their plans.

“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.

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.

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

Durg Gay Days the 1990s, hundreds of antiabortn 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 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.

GAY PRI

Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood. Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement).

MOSW BANS GAY PRI EVENTS FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS

In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year). Early Gay Pri events (often lled Freedom Day or Gay Liberatn Day) were often sparsely attend and enuntered protts, particularly bee of the outlandish stum that some marchers wore. In 1978 what is perhaps the most-regnized symbol of Gay Pri ma s but at the San Francis event: the rabow flag.

As acceptance of the LGBTQ muny creased among the straight muny, policians sympathetic to the views of the LGBTQ muny and gay-iendly bs and rporatns began participatg the march.