Who wouldn’t want to spend a ‘Gay Day in the Magic Kingdom’? 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.
