Gay Days 2009 In Orlando, Florida
Posted by: wdw4christians on: January 3, 2009
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My travel agency always sees a spike in travel planning when the new year rolls around. Families start thinking about summer vacation and begin watching for good deals on airfare.
Because of this, I want to post the schedule – as it relates to the Walt Disney World Resort theme parks – for Gay Days in Orlando, Florida. This event always takes place in the first week of June.
This is not a Disney sponsored event – actually, Bud Light is the Presenting Sponsor and the Royal Plaza (not a Disney hotel) is the host hotel. Quite a few of the parties and receptions are held at the Royal Plaza, which is in the Downtown Disney resort area.
A day at each of the theme parks is included in the event schedule:
- Thursday, June 4, 2009 – Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park
- Friday, June 5, 2009 – Disney’s Hollywood Studios Theme Park
- Saturday, June 6, 2009 – Magic Kingdom Theme Park
- Sunday, June 7, 2009 - Epcot
I personally haven’t been in the Disney World parks during Gay Days. Pete Werner is the Founder/Webmaster of the DIS Boards, which is one of the biggest unofficial Disney World informational websites and forums. Mr. Warner is gay and wrote an article Why I’m Not Going to Gay Days This Year. Because the DISboards provides so much quality information about Walt Disney World, I expect that Mr. Warner’s article probably provides an accurate picture of what to expect from Gay Days.
What should you do if you want to avoid this event but have already purchased non-refundable airline tickets?
- Avoid Downtown Disney; especially at night. The host hotel is near Downtown Disney so you should probably expect a fairly wild “Spring Break” party type atmosphere in the Downtown Disney restaurants, especially those that offer live music.
- Avoid the Atlantic Dance Hall in the Boardwalk Entertainment area.
- Check the park schedule posted above and avoid those parks on the days listed.
- Be aware of what is happening around you in the resort swimming pools and hot tubs - especially after the life guards are off duty. I’m told that some of what occurs is not “Family Friendly”.
- The participants are encouraged to “Wear Red and Be Seen” - if you aren’t participating, you might not want to wear red.
- Pray for the event and its participants. If I may paraphrase Esther 4:14b “And who knows but that you have to to (Walt Disney World) for such a time as this?” If you’ve experienced the love of God and are carrying His Spirit within you, you may be uniquely qualified to pray for those who don’t know Him.
3 Responses to "Gay Days 2009 In Orlando, Florida"
June 28, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I wrote that when I was at the bottom of a bottle of bourbon. Gay days is mostly same sex couples holding hands and pushing stollers.
June 29, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Wow! Pete Werner read my blog!!!! That’s like meeting Donny Osmond at Wal-mart — this is just too exciting for words. The guy with “THE” unofficial Disney site read my blog.
Thank you for taking time to comment – I appreciate it.
wdw4christians
June 3, 2009 at 10:22 am
Disney claims they don’t sponsor this event, but in fact they do on many levels. This is a big money maker for them every year and Disney is all about money. They sponsor special events/parties at both Hollywood Studios park and at a night club (Rix Cafe) in their Coronado Springs resort. Sea World is also upfront about their partnership with the Gay Days organization.
We have been there during Gay Days and it borders on obscene, and anyone who tells you it doesn’t is probably one of the participants. You see grown men walking around wearing little girl fairy wings on their backs, multitudes of inappropriate clothing and clothing with sexually explicit sayings or innuendos printed on them. It’s a bad scene and we always felt sorry for people vacationing there with their children and had no idea this garbage was going on.
They are all there for one reason and one reason only: to find other Gays to hook up with and have sex. It’s totally disgusting. All they do is scope each other out even if they are with their “partners”. It’s like a giant meat market. Just check out the Gay Days website and look at the photo galleries.
I don’t see how a 50-something year old guy with a hairy back wearing fairy wings and ultra short cut-off jeans is doing anything to further the stereotype of gays or make them more tolerable to the rest of us who aren’t genetically defective.
Walt would be turning over in his grave if he could see what his legacy/dream of building an all American playground for families to visit has degraded into. It’s really sad.