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.
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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. (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.
THE HISTORY OF WALT DISNEY WORLD’S “GAY DAYS”
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“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. “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. ” Read More: Florida Jt Passed The “Don’t Say Gay” Bill. 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.