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#Disney world gay pride week 2016 full#
January 15-16 – Le Boy in Fort Lauderdale celebrates one full year in business. $12,000 was given to Grateful Paws Dog and Cat Rescue, the Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida, Gilda’s Club of South Florida, and the Leather Archives and Museum. January 12 – Georgie’s Alibi/Monkey Bar hosts the annual presentation of funds from the Leather Masked Ball to their chosen charities. January 11 – South Florida LGBT luminary and Hotspots photographer “Pompano Bill” Calcaterra celebrates his 90th birthday with a party at Boardwalk, which is also a benefit for Tuesday’s Angels. January 1 – Urge presents the “Day One” party at Score in Miami Beach, featuring DJs Rosabel and Paulo & Jackinsky. Here’s a timeline covering a lot of the important events that transpired this past year that impacted Florida’s LGBT community. Even as we enter uncharted territory next year with our new president, our dreams and dignity can never be shattered, for we are “Florida Strong.” Yes, even “Orlando Strong.”
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We rallied around one another and stood united in the face of hatred and terror. After that, we learned that Florida’s LGBT community is stronger than we ever realized. Then, the events of June 12 changed everything. As we all lived our best lives together in the Sunshine State, we had hope that this year would be a year of happiness, even as an uncertain future loomed large in our minds. He noted that even Disney had to tell the group to stop doing that.Florida’s LGBT community grew to over one million full-time residents in 2016. “You have to understand that it is the activity that is going on, the kissing, the inappropriate dress, the immodest and purposely provocative cross-dressing that goes on at the park.”ĭuring the second year of Gay Days at Disney, according to FFA’s Caton, there were 1,800 transvestites dressed up in drag. “It’s not just the fact that it’s gay,” asserted Stemberger.
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The Florida pro-family leader said hundreds if not thousands of Disney park goers have unsuspectingly visited during the Gay Days and were offended and left without a refund. They don’t have to do it during the day … where there are thousands of children around that have to be exposed to this behavior.” “Or they can just close the whole thing off and do it in the evening and let them have unbridled debauchery. Why not do it with a theme park?” questioned Stemberger. The issue is why doesn’t Disney warn the parents and say this is Gay Day? We do that with movies, we do that with records. “No one is saying they don’t have a right to do it. “The only problem is 95 percent of the IPs are from out-of-state, so there is no way they could have possibly seen the banner, let alone got into the park to attend the event.”įor Stemberger, his problem with Gay Days at Disney is how attendees “flaunt” their sexuality when children are around, and that Disney allows the event to take place during normal business hours when other groups have to come in after hours to hold their events. “They are sending us emails saying, ‘thank you, we didn’t know that this was going on, or that we forgot and we packed our families and went to Disney World,’” said Caton. Gay rights advocates have tried to push back, the FFA director claims, by trying to trick the Christian pro-family group into thinking that they are actually helping their opponents. “There was a definite, drastic reduction of mainstream families there,” maintained Caton, whose team went to Magic Kingdom to assess the turnout. But this was the first year they took to the sky to warn about it.Ĭaton claims that the group’s banner approach led to an estimated 50 to 60 percent reduction in the number of mainstream families that came to the park on Saturday. The Florida Family Association, no relations to FFPC, chartered an aircraft to pull two seven-foot high banners – one on Friday and one on Saturday – above the Disney World area to warn potential park goers that attendees of Gay Pride Days would visit the Magic Kingdom on June 4.Ībout 15,000 gay attendees entered the Disney park on Saturday compared to the normal level of 30,000 children and their parents.ĭavid Caton, executive director of Florida Family Association, told CP that members of his staff have been at Disney World during Gay Days for 18 of the 21 years that the event has occurred. It has never been done before and I think it’s very appropriate in light of the very inappropriate nature that was going on at the time,” said John Stemberger, president of the Florida Family Policy Council, to The Christian Post on Monday. The aircraft-flown banner that warned people about Gay Pride Days at Disney World was “brilliant,” said the head of a Florida family group.