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Contents:
- HOW DISNEY GAYDAYS QUIETLY BEME A MASSIVE PRI EVENT
- DISNEY GAY DAYS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD
- 2017 GAY DAYS @ THE WALT DISNEY WORLD RORT
- WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
HOW DISNEY GAYDAYS QUIETLY BEME A MASSIVE PRI EVENT
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In 1991, a group of queer iends cid to anize an unofficial "gay and lbian day" at Walt Disney World, a day for a small gatherg of the lol LGBTQ muny to e and vis the theme park together. They picked a Saturday June bee was one of the slowt days of the year, one current GaysDays official said. Organizers say 's only gog to keep gettg history of GayDaysNow, GayDays is so big that 's impossible to ignore — but atten at the very first Disney meet-up 1991 took measur to not be immediately intified as LGBTQ by the crowd.
DISNEY GAY DAYS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD
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. * when is gay week at disney world 2017 *
They cid to all drs red, "not rabow" bee "they wanted to blend and not necsarily offend anybody, " Steve Erics, GayDays creative director, explaed a phone ll on Friday, addg "not everybody was openly gay. "The red shirts stuck around, but GayDays began to grow and grow, beg a regular, unmissable event at the theme park.
It attracted ranr om nservativ — 1998, televangelist Pat Robertson warned that Walt Disney World would be punished wh hurrin for allowg GayDays to take place.
2017 GAY DAYS @ THE WALT DISNEY WORLD RORT
But for some participants, was seeg the days actn that ma them sure was somethg Livgston/Getty ImagDrag performer Co Montre, who appeared the petn realy show RuPl's Drag Race, first noticed Disney GayDays long before she was famo — she saw the events firsthand durg the 11 years she worked at Disney World as an entertaer, performg paras and shows. "That was probably part of why I wanted to bee a part of GayDays. "Montre has been a part of the celebratn for more than ten years now, and she clears her schle to make sure she n appear at GayDays every year, now as one of the celebry fac of the event.
"Beg volved GayDays is the bt thg ever, " she said. "A chosen fayGayDays, which began as a sgle vis to Disney World's Magic Kgdom, is now a massive, weekend-long event, featurg anized viss to every part of Disney World as well as pageants, pool parti, petns and viss to other area theme parks.
WHAT DAYS ARE GAY DAYS AT DISNEY WORLD? EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT THE RED SHIRT TRADN.
"If you’ve never been to GayDays, ’s one of those tough thgs to expla … It mak the hair on the back of my neck stand up... "That sense of muny has bee even more important after last year's adly massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando. "GayDays lost five people om the Pulse tragedy, " Erics said.
Even though the days have bee a longstandg tradn, GayDays is still unofficial, and not formally associated wh Disney World. "Everybody intifi GayDays as Disney, " he said. And he's hopeful that the pany will eventually bee an official supporter of GayDays.
And, he said, fosterg a sense of fay among the LGBTQ muny is, and always has been, one of the most important parts of GayDays. Gay Days Orlando is an annual event held as a vatn celebratn for the LGBTQ muny. red-shirted Gay Days atten pack Walt Disney World's origal.