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.
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- GAY DAYS AT DISNEY – CELEBRATE PRI & LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH
- THE HISTORY OF WALT DISNEY WORLD’S “GAY DAYS”
GAY DAYS AT DISNEY – CELEBRATE PRI & LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH
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. * disney gay days history *
” 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. S., said would no longer accept money om Disney until took “meangful actn” to stop the “Don’t Say Gay” bill om beg law.
Pixar employe wrote their own letter last week, accg s parent pany of guttg “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn” om s films. ” 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.
THE HISTORY OF WALT DISNEY WORLD’S “GAY DAYS”
Disney's LGBTQ history is mixed. The pany has "queer-d" characters movi and Gay Days at parks but stumbled on the "Don't Say Gay" bill. * disney gay days history *
(Mark Hal had prevly claimed that Le Skywalker is gay if the viewer wants him to be. Read More: I Know What It’s Like to Be a Florida Teen Who Can’t Say Gay.
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. “People who mand refunds bee was Gay Days would get them, ” he says.
“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.