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GAY TRAVELERS GATHER AT DISNEY WORLD TO VATN AND MAKE A STATEMENT

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By Allison Pohle and Erich SchwartzelJune 4, 2022 5:30 am ETTens of thoands of visors arrive at Walt Disney World this weekend for an unofficial gatherg of gay parkgoers. This year’s Gay Day, as the event is known, as Disney navigat polil, ctomer and employee tensns over lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr issu. Orlando is a Southern town, but the entertament dtry and the theme parks have helped the buildg of a strong gay and lbian muny.

The tenor of crowds n change, however, pendg on what's gog on town, so rpect your own populary of Orlando wh gay and lbian travelers has been nfirmed by the expansn of the June "Gay Day" celebratn at Disney World to a weekend event that clus Universal Orlando and SeaWorld. Park-goers n wear red on Gay Day to signify their support of the gay and lbian muny.

Addnal rmatn on the event n be found at rmatn about events for that weekend and throughout the year, ntact the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr Communy Center of Central Florida, 946 N. Wele packets ually clu the latt issue of the Triangle, a quarterly newsletter dited to gay and lbian issu, and a lendar of events. Though not a tourist-specific packet, clus rmatn and ads for lol gay and lbian clubs.

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Gay Orlando Network () is another planng rource for travelers. 407/481-2243;) is a gay-iendly publitn that n be found many bookstor.

(AP) — 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.

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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. — 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.

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