When we were kids back in the early 1980s we heard of “gay days” at places like King’s Island and Disney. We were told the parks never knew when one was going to happen. It was a day a bunch of them showed up with “gay day” shirts on and were everywhere. Was told the parks didn’t like it but could do nothing about them.
I was told one year at King’s Island a bunch of bikers happened to be there while one gay day was going on and were slamming the gays up against the wall and calling them “queers” and “fags”. I have no way to validate this story was just something another kid told me.
When it became apparent that Disney was having annual “gay days”, the families stayed away and allowed to gay community to have their fun, it was basically ignored, no one really cared.
The difference this time is the LGBTQ crowd is trying to force the beliefs to be accepted by the public by any means necessary and the public is pushing back in a very public manner. If they would have just gone about their business and didn’t force themselves on people, this would not be a story.