It's Gay Days!!!

[Queenbillabong]

Last time we were on the Sun Wheel - the swinging cars - we had the "pleasure" of being seated across from a young German couple who were pretty much going at it the ENTIRE ride Yikes! Where do you look??? And I was there with my 12-year-old son, who was ever so embarrassed....... Not cool at all!

 

[cseca]

Well,
I went back at around 5pm and WOWEE!!! Talk about being crowded. Indy was 75min wait and everything else is pretty much 30min or more.
I bailed out after 1hr and most of the time I just ate my dinner...
It's definitely busy out there, I was planning on watching the fireworks tonight but I don't think I'm going to be able to handle the crowd... maybe next time for me.

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

Yea, I really dislike that around this time of year everyone harps on all the "PDA" they see in the park. I see it EVERYTIME I go and it's from the teenagers, the straight parents, etc.

I don't like the PDA no matter who it is from, but a lot of people seem to only mention how much they PDA when it is coming from gay people...

We went to Gay Days last year and I didn't see any inappropriate PDAs from anybody wearing red shirts that weekend. I see more PDA from straight teenage couples on "regular" weekends..

 

[Bsbllmom]

Well,
I went back at around 5pm and WOWEE!!! Talk about being crowded. Indy was 75min wait and everything else is pretty much 30min or more.
I bailed out after 1hr and most of the time I just ate my dinner...
It's definitely busy out there, I was planning on watching the fireworks tonight but I don't think I'm going to be able to handle the crowd... maybe next time for me.

The fireworks show was canceled last night. We were waiting for it and then they canceled it Oh well next time.

 

[cseca]

The fireworks show was canceled last night. We were waiting for it and then they canceled it Oh well next time.

They did????
Wow... I'm glad I didn't try to make it back to DL from DCA then... I was in a giant line to take picture with M&M in their halloween costume and didn't want to give up my spot for the fireworks... good thing I didn't.
Thanks for letting me know.
Maybe next time for the both of us...

 

[Bsbllmom]

Yeah at 9:28 it still hadn't started and the recording just came on that it was delayed. So we went on a ride and by the time we came off, 20 minutes, it had been canceled and it had already cleared out.

 

[avalon451]

Yikes. I am seriously starting to worry about Columbus day, now.

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

Yikes. I am seriously starting to worry about Columbus day, now.

ME TOO!!

I kind of had a feeling this weekend was going to be busy with Gay Days and I'm sure Miley's birthday has something to do with the crowds too... But knowing that next Monday is Columbus Day it worries me.

I don't have Columbus Day off work (I'm taking it off anyways! ) and neither do my parents, but I know the banks and post offices are closed.. What about schools, do they have that day off?

 

[Brina78]

I am totally not against anyone's love for a gender, as long as no one is hurting anyone, I don't care, but PDA's, that's just inexcusable. They're in a public place and should respect the other people around them.

Guuuuh, anyway, my family and I did go up, but for a very short time since we had a block out date today. We mostly wanted to shop at World of Disney and look around Downtown Disney. On the way to our car in the Mickey and Friends parking structure, I saw a sign about Miley Cyrus' birthday for October 5. Disneyland will be open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 5. I don't think we'll go back. It sounds like it's going to be a mad house.

 

[YellowMickeyPonchos]

We got to the parks at about 5 and I felt the crowd was fairly moderate - not as heavy as I was expecting, but then I've also been in the MK at WDW on Gay Days, too! I know there were a lot of 30-50 minute wait times, but the crowd was easily moving through the park. Parade route did seem a tiny bit heavy.

The only PDA I saw was a couple (around 17 yrs old) sitting back by Chip and Dale's Treehouse in ToonTown. Couldn't stop necking to save their lives! All the boys and girls were extremely well behaved! Had lots of fun talking to some of them in the lines at the Bakery and in Mad Hatter's.

I did wonder who won the Food Network Challenge - Miley's Birthday Cake. Looks like they were going to tape the announcement in front of the castle after the 6:30 parade finished. My husband decided we were heading out after the parade and never made it back that way to watch. Anybody there to know who competed or what the outcome was? Love those FN Challenge shows - so creative!!!

 

[toocherie]

Went to the TOT party. So didnt see many of them... There were a lot in the plaza between the parks and the PDA's were just gross...

Sorry. there is a time and place for everything.. Well I don't think it is DL. That is why we did not go to DL today.


Waiting till next weekend...

Funny--I was there this weekend and the only PDA I saw was two teenagers (a boy and girl) in line at Toy Story Mania. If I had been her Mother she would have been grounded . . . . . from what I saw the Gay Days participants were all very well behaved and friendly.

 

[mAlien13]

One advantage of publicizing Gay Days is that it keeps the bigots away for a weekend...

Hear, hear...

I was really surprised to see the flow of this PDA conversation. I am not somebody who is hung up on PDA's myself, as long as it is hugging/kissing/hand holding, ect, it all seems like a real part of the world, not something I am scared of my kids seeing. My DH and myself are not really that way, although we will have a casual hug, kiss, and peck here and there.

The reason I am responding to this thread though, is I find it shocking that so many initial responses to Gay Days involve a discussion of PDA and it being too much or not. I doubt seriously that the OP was intending this to be about who can kiss who when and where.

I think that many pp's are responding as if it has nothing to do with it being Gay Days, but here is a couple things to consider: One, it was brought up in response to the posting 'It's Gay Days!' As if yeah, the crowds are bad, but it's 'them' and 'their PDA's' that are going to keep me away. Second, I think one thing that continues to happen in our society, is that small PDA's, like those I described above, go largely unnoticed when it is between a man and a woman. However, many people still snap their heads when it is two men or two women, and a small embrace or quick kiss becomes more than what it is. I think there are a few pp's that are trying to point that out, by stating that much of the uncomfortable PDA's they witness are between men and women. I think the larger point is, who cares?!?!?!

One of the wonderful things about events like 'Gay Days' is that couples are able to travel with their families and be comfortable and open in a way that is still not always a part of their day to day lives. For that reason, I think it is sad and a bit shameful that the dialog so quickly deteriorated into a talk about open affection rather than crowd levels and wait times. If the title had been instead: 'It's MTOT time!!!' how quickly would the topic switch to PDA's? Hmmm....I think I saw that posted, let me check and get back to you...

 

[Sherry E]

I, too, was just at DLR - Cseca, Toocherie and YellowMickeyPonchos, I am sorry I didn't get to meet you - between 10/2 and today, 10/5, and I certainly saw the red shirts scattered about DLR in different places where we were, but....I don't know. Other than the fact that it just made it a little more crowded, I just don't care! It doesn't bother me to see two men holding hands or two women holding hands. I wouldn't want to see them doing the nasty in the middle of DLR, but I wouldn't want to see that from heterosexual couples either!! I have to sadly admit that my friends seemed much more consumed with all the gay men around us - constantly pointing them out or commenting on the red shirts. It was annoying me after a while - and I am not gay - because I felt like they were looking at them like animals in a zoo to be observed. To me, they are people like you and me. In fact, gay men are usually a hoot to hang out with - they are very witty and raucous and just good company! If two men can find love together, more power to them - the same for two women. I don't expect that just because they are gay they will suddenly be so out of control that they have to grope each other every five seconds. But it is a very big deal for them in 2008 to be able to walk through DLR and hold hands if they want to, because at one time, it was not allowed! So good for them!

The only thing that bothered me other than crowds at DLR this past few days was the occasional annoying person who wouldn't move out of the way long enough for the Photopass people to snap our pictures. The Photopass people would ask them to move out of the way, and these folks would just not wait two seconds for them to snap the shot. They had to barge right in and get their arms in our pictures! But, oh well. What can you do? We are all in the same boat!!! No big deal.

 

[jlima]

I totally have to share this . . . I was with my older son when he was about 10; and we were walking between Adventureland and Frontierland and there was a couple we walked past who could best be described as liplocked. As we walked past them I said "Get A Room!" They stopped and just giggled. My son saw them giggling and asked me what did I say and I just said Oh, Nothing!

 

[YellowMickeyPonchos]

I just reread my post - My goodness - I forgot a whole sentence! I meant to be explicit in that the teens I saw necking were a boy and girl who were probably in Toon Town hiding from their parents (only reason I can think of to go there to neck)!

Sorry, if anyone thought I was being snarky! I happen to love going to Gay Days. Random queue line conversation is at it's most fun on those days!

I'm also partial to going to Bat Days, too. Excellent crowd levels and fun people to watch and talk to!