Posted on 03/30/2022 9:43:33 AM PDT by FarCenter
Walt Disney might have been horrified. Self-appointed guardians of the "family values" label definitely would have been horrified. But there was no fear -- or even a hint of irony -- on the part of the video crew stationed in the forecourt of Cinderella's Castle at the Magic Kingdom, their camera trained on a well-toned man wearing cut-off shorts, a red T-shirt and, dangling from his neck, rainbow-colored beads. "So, tell us," said the interviewer, reporting for a tourism show to be broadcast on German TV. "What kind of man do you like?"
On that first Saturday of June 1999, the question turned few heads among the passing swarms also garbed in red -- the official uniform of the unofficial Gay Day at Walt Disney World. But the occasion that filled Disney's parks that weekend with an estimated 80,000 gays and lesbians did not go unchallenged: As the crew zoomed in on the man's T-shirt (which said on the front, "If you like what you see" and on the back, "E-mail me" ), a chartered plane floated a banner overhead for a ministry that vowed it could turn gays straight. "Freedom from homosexuality: Jesus Christ," it read.
The camera crew's assigned escort, one of the troops who famously police Disney's public image, barely looked up.
Ten years old this weekend, Gay Day -- a grass-roots gathering initially launched with fliers in local bars and now promoted worldwide on the Internet and in gay-targeted media -- is a phenomenon with undeniable impact on two fronts.
First, it's become a mainstay of Central Florida's tourist economy. Host hotels -- there are three this year -- set aside blocks of rooms in package deals pitched to the tens of thousands who flock to the weekend. Places such as Pleasure Island, House of Blues and Hard Rock Live now program specifically for the event. A private beach party at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon water park is expected to sell out more than 5,000 tickets at $52 each. Several late-night dance parties at multiple sites, including Disney-MGM Studios, will draw similar numbers at similar prices. The Orlando-Orange County Convention and Visitors Bureau doesn't track such concentrations of what it considers to be leisure travelers, but if each person who attended a Gay Day activity wore a delegate badge, the numbers would dwarf the 50,000 people who otherwise constitute the bureau's largest convention booking. And it's still growing.
But more than the economic impact, Gay Day influenced the cultural landscape -- and, most dramatically, the culture of The Walt Disney Company itself.
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Do Mickey, Goofy and Donald now use pronouns?
About 23 years ago, I took my then-seven year old son to a San Francisco Giants baseball game. Immediately before the game, they unrolled the then-popular “AIDS Quilt” right in front of us!
My son, naturally, wanted to know what it was about. I can’t remember exactly how I deflected that, but I do remember I was ROYALLY PISSED that I had to deal with it. How do you explain buggery to an innocent seven year old?
Of course, that’s what the libs now want to have every elementary school in the country do.
There is no longer a “gay day”, it’s now gay every day.
It’s no accident that “Gay Day” is celebrated in a children’s amusement park.
Boycott all things Disney.
Disney may be too big to fail in our blue culture. I’m not sure we can change their behavior with protests.
I have certainly never been able to get Satan to change his ways.
But I was able to protect my child from Satan by not giving my child poison.
Don’t take you child or grandchildren to Disney’s sinks of sin. Stay way. They are poison.
Do something positive. Teach your child how to safely shoot a rifle.
Gay weekend has been going on at Disney since at least the 90’s. Had a military exercise in Orlando where 40 of us clean cut 30ish mostly fit males flew into the airport. As we walked to baggage claim we got a lot of weird looks as we moved in groups of 2-4. It was later at the hotel someone discovered it was gay weekend at Disney.
Time to put the deviants BACK into the closet by whatever means necessary. They will destroy generations of Americans. At some point we have to stop this assault on decency.
Remember when they initially argued “We just want to be left alone in the privacy our bedrooms”?
People argued “No, that’s a slippery slope” and they laughed and said “There’s no such thing as a slippery slope.”
I always wonder where the bottom of the slippery slope is. Are we near it? Or have we just started our trip down it? How much worse can it possibly get?
Imagine if you didn’t know it was Homosexual Week in Disney, and you took your family there.
I am sure there are those who would say “You should have known!”
We can't. You are correct that the best thing is to avoid Disney from now on because they are disgusting and are trying to push kids into deviant sexuality. They have been completely taken over by the enemy.
If the city of Sodom is any guide, you will be required by law to turn over your children for indoctrination….wait! We already have compulsory schooling.
Never mind
Now that it’s revealed that Disney grooms children, the Left is trying to water down and change the meaning of grooming.
The grooming word is their kryptonite.
They banned it on reddit.
Now we can call them pRedditors
People who need a special day on which to feel proud, are really very ashamed of themselves.
Accidentally going to Typhoon Laggon on Gay Day... that about sums up my nightmare. Honestly who would want to attend that park the next day, shoot several weeks, after an event like that and what would be in the water.
Most Americans will go there no matter what. Even if their child is molested, or even killed, they will continue taking the rest of their children to these pedo places.
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