Sounds like a fun time and I'm sorry I've never attended. Naturally some folks pull out the "why are gays shoving their agenda down everyone else's throats card" - including some folks who claim to be on our side - and this is nonsense.
It's just a fun time at the park, people. Lgbts are allowed to have fun and so what if we wear red to let folks know who we are?
. It's interesting to me that while this event has been taking place since 1991, the religious right has yet to mount up a serious propaganda campaign against it.
Even our friend Porno Pete hasn't had pictures from the event gracing his site. Then was this comical something last week from One News Now:
"This Saturday, June 5, there will be approximately 15 [thousand to] 20,000 reveling homosexual, lesbian, [and] transgender people in the Magic Kingdom in Orlando," reports David Caton, founder of the Florida Family Association (FFA). "I want to encourage people who have any plans of attending the Magic Kingdom on that date to avoid it. It is a very distasteful event," he adds.
Saturday's observance falls in the midst of Orlando's annual weeklong "Gay Days" celebration that boasts of attracting more than 150,000 "gay and lesbian travelers." Websites report that homosexuals wear red that day at Walt Disney World to identify themselves to others. Caton says that over the years, he has witnessed 2,000 to 3,000 people who have left the park after learning it was packed that day with homosexuals. The event is always staged on the first Saturday of June, and he explains that activists have a reason for that.
Now how does Caton do this? Does he stand at the gate, count the folks leaving and solicits their reasons as to why?
Caton's claim gets funnier:
"There are anywhere between 50 [thousand] and 70,000 children in the theme park on that day, and we believe the reason they're doing this is because they want to have a captured audience of children," he suspects.
The FFA founder says that is part of a homosexual indoctrination process for the children.
As he has monitored the park during the annual homosexual fest at Disney, Caton notes that there have been reports of obvious debauchery involving homosexuals.
What exactly is "obvious debauchery?" Kissing? Holding hands?
Unfortunately the problem with events like this is that if someone sees one couple or one lgbt doing something slightly risque, then all attention is on that one couple - whether it be the right to further stigmatize us or some of us bending over backwards being overly apologetic.
Neither crowd seems to have the sense enough to realize that the attendees of Gay Days, whether risque or polite, cannot and should not taken as a representation of the lgbt community at large.
Nor is everything that lgbts do is a part of a coordinated plan of takeover. Believe it or no, Caton, but maybe Gay Days started because lgbts wanted to organize a group for fun at Disney World.
Someone has obviously been watching too much James Bond
I was there last Saturday and saw families have fun, straight teens making out, a few gay couples holding hands, lots of red t-shirts, some butt grabbing by couples both gay and straight, but nothing over the top by any guests.
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