There is an official Gay Days red shirt you can buy for the theme park event, but you’re under no obligation to wear that – any red items you already have work as well.
Staying here means you’re right at the heart of the action there’s a GayDays Expo, free transportation to the theme parks and opportunities to attend the surrounding events.
Gay Days offers a Host Hotel – in 2018 it was the Doubletree by Hilton Orlando at SeaWorld in Orlando, and in 2019 it will be the Wyndham Orlando. Do try and get tickets in advance if you want to go to the pre-event parties as they sell out quickly. Tickets to the pool parties, dance parties and other events are available online in advance, or from the Gay Days Host Hotel. After the 412-day closure of the Disneyland Resort halted the 2020 celebration of Gay Days, the unofficial event is back for 2021. If you’re going the whole hog and visiting as many parks as possible, multi-day tickets are a good investment. The Gay Days aren’t formally associated with Disney (although they arguably have done a lot to raise Disney’s profile among the LGBT community) and you don’t need any special tickets for the theme park visit – if you’re going (and you know you should), you just need to get theme park tickets on the website. Who wouldn’t want to spend a ‘Gay Day in the Magic Kingdom’? Tue 1:51 pm EDT ( LifeSiteNews) Disney, the former go-to company celebrating the wonder and innocence of childhood, is now peddling toys and clothing for kids awash in. This means on Gay Days you see a lot of gay couples with their kids – it’s family-friendly and all about the fun. Pride is incredible, we all know that, but the organizers wanted to show that as well as dancing with our shirts off in a parade, members of the LGBT community also have families, the same interests as everyone else, and just want to meet Mickey Mouse with their kids. Attendees can enjoy kick-off parties, dinner shows, pool nights and drag events before donning red and going on some roller coasters.Ī big part of the original aim was to show the ‘normal’ side of the gay community. It’s not just about going to Disney World there are pre-event parties in Gay Orlando for days beforehand. Now over 150,000 people attend every year and it’s become a massive, weekend-long event. On that first weekend, there were 3000 people it was almost a flash mob, before flash mobs were a thing. They chose to all wear red – not the rainbow colors usually associated with Pride and other LGBT events – in order to ‘blend in’ rather than stand out. It all started in 1991 when a group of friends organized an unofficial event in Disney World on a June weekend.