The annual "Gay
Days" at the Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Calif.,
will kick off Friday, October 6, with a party at Downtown
Disney. The event continues Saturday, October 7, with
an unofficial "Gay Day" in the Disneyland theme park
and a party that night at the House of Blues featuring
Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson. Sunday,
October 8, will be the unofficial "Gay Day" at
Disney's California Adventure theme park.
"Gay Days at
Disneyland is our chance to relive our childhood without
all the shitty parts!" said actor and Advocate
columnist Alec Mapa, who is cohosting the Saturday
night party, called "Kingdom," with Wilson Cruz.
Hudson will perform at Kingdom at 10 p.m., organizers said.
The Trevor
Project--a nonprofit organization that runs a 24-hour
suicide hot line for queer teens--will sponsor
all of the youth activities planned for the
weekend, which include on October 7 a scavenger hunt,
lunch, and "dinner and movie"--all free for
youth 21 and under who sign up at TheTrevorProject.org. The screening will
be of the campy flick Psycho Beach Party, and
director Bob King will be there to answer questions
from the youth after the screening, which will be held
in the Gay Days Entertainment Center inside the
Disneyland Hotel.
Gay Days Anaheim
typically attracts as many as 30,000 or more LGBT
park-hoppers to the Disney theme parks, most of them wearing
red shirts to be visible among other park guests. Both
the Saturday gathering in Disneyland and the Sunday
gathering in Disney's California Adventure are
privately organized and not endorsed by the Disney company.
For more information or to buy tickets to the parties,
go to gaydaysanaheim.com.
