Gay Days at Disneyland Draw Conservative, Hispanic Ire

CNS News ^ | 10/4/03 | Melissa Mullins

[yankeedame]

Old Walt must be turning over in his grave.

...like a turbine.

[I still care]

Actually, I think it's a great idea. Latinos have very traditional values. So many times the left gets by with this garbage because they keep it carefully hidden from people that might cause trouble for them.

Maybe some in the hispanic community need to look at the results of being and voting Democrat, that the values of the Democratic party are against every morality they have been taught to believe.

Bill O'Reilly is great on this. He confronted Gebhardt last week about this, saying, you have lost the entire south and now you are losing the midwest because of your antagonism towards religious and tradional values. Gebhardt had some lame answer like his religion believes in justice and helping the poor.

[Dimensio]

I believe that it's "tradition" for homosexuals to identify themselves by wearing red shirts.

That is also done at Paramount's King's Island. I find some irony in that, given what often happens to people wearing red shirts on one of Paramount's most famous series.

[First Amendment]

For the love of God, why are these "Gay Days" necessary?

A. Whoever controls Disney wants to promote perversity.

B. Money too.

A good friend's brother worked for Disney (computer graphic/animation stuff) for 2-3 years, left in disgust because a great number of people working there are homosexual and push it.

[dagnabbit]

Where to begin?

Peter Pan and his older, but very generous, Gentleman Friend
Snow White and the Seven Leather Dwarves
B-tt Pirates of the Caribbean
Mr. Toad's Gerbil's Wild Ride

[Yaelle]

I took my 3 little boys to D-land yesterday (Friday) and had no idea it was a gay day. The park was filled with heterosexual couples and kids.

[Yaelle]

I might as well confess that I was one of the brave early trendsetters who began to test Disney's anti-gay policies of the mid-70s.

I am not, nor ever have been, homosexual. Yet when I was 17, I returned from a long overseas voyage just in time to graduate with my class of '77. I also arrived home in time for our Grad Night affair, which was, as usual, to be held at Disneyland. My dearest best friend had missed me so much that she decided we should go together to Grad Night, forgoing dates with our boyfriends. We dressed nicely and off we went. Many, many other high schools were also sharing this Grad Night party at Disneyland, and to our utter shock, we were the ONLY SAME SEX COUPLE in the filled park! We had really not realized that you couldn't go just with a buddy!

We were greeted with stares all night long, and decided that we, healthy and attractive girls with boyfriends, could handle it, so we just went on rides and laughed and had a good time. The photographer took our picture, which we still have somewhere, but when we decided to rock out on the dance floor, we met with trouble. A Disney guard came up to us and escorted us firmly off the dance floor, forbidding us to dance. Mind you, this was no waltz; we were just swinging and swaying to 70s rock and roll!

I may have been one of the first to peek out of Mickey's closet and start this revolution!

[proudofthesouth]

Excellent letter. I've long been puzzled why conservatives with influence like (and I'm going to make an example of him here) talk show host Shawn Hannity continue to promote Disney World and Disney products. Shawn takes his family at least once a year to Disney World and talks about it on his radio program. In my opinion, to be a conservative and support the way Disney is nowadays is hypocritical. I've been boycotting Disney for many, many years because of their policies regarding gays and pedophiles.

[nosofar]

Maybe some in the hispanic community need to look at the results of being and voting Democrat, that the values of the Democratic party are against every morality they have been taught to believe.

I'd like to know why Latinos (or Chicanos, or whatever label is used) vote Democratic. I've tended to think it was just a different cultural outlook on government, but that's probably a little simplistic, assuming it's not altogether wrong.

[Maven]

we were the ONLY SAME SEX COUPLE in the filled park!

No, you weren't! I'm class of '77, too, and while I went to Grad Night with my boyfriend, a female classmate of mine went with another female friend who had graduated in '76.

Still have my Grad Night Winnie the Pooh, too. LOL!

Maven

[handk]

We haven't gone in years. It's overrated, overcrowded, and obscenely expensive.

After waiting in line with my [then] girlfriend almost 90 minutes for the worst hamburger I've ever had in my life (and the worst fries, worst hamburger bun, worst everything), and paying something in the range of $12 for two "meals", I swore I would never set foot in that craphole ever again. (And I haven't).

What was the Disney story about the kids that entered the "amusement" park, and left as jackasses? That's how I felt leaving the "Wonderful World of Disney" in Anaheim.

Here's a clue. The word "muse" means to "think, ponder, consider, analyze, etc." The word "amuse" means "without thought, without pondering, without consideration, without analysis" (as in "asexual", without sex; "amoral", without morals; "asymetrical", without symetry, etc.)

Therefore, an "amusement park" is a place where you turn your brain off and wind up a jackass.

[Yaelle]

LOL, Maven!! Well, if they were there that night, we sure did not see them!!! There are different nights set aside. I bet they had the same experience we did. TOO FUNNY!

[Salem]

"...I've long been puzzled why conservatives with influence like (and I'm going to make an example of him here) talk show host Shawn Hannity continue to promote Disney World and Disney products."

I've heard a lot of these same talk show hosts, including Shawn. In the context of the conversations, they, like many, are under the influence of the coercion of the neo-left and their mantra of "tolerance, diversity, and open-mindedness." Basically, bending over backwards to try to appear "progressive and mainstream," which it is not.

Until Conservatives, regardless of their brand, start to oppose this "progressive" decline into barbarity, in the intellectual and social arena with grace, professionalism, skill, and wisdom -- but firmly and with vigor, the tyranny and coercion will continue.

It's not Disney, in and of itself, like they are some hapless target of the "religous right," it's that the extremist neo-left has targeted Disney, both from inside the organization and by events such as this, as an icon (previously) of American traditional values -- which they despise and want to simply destroy, much like militant Islam targeting the West.

That's why it is important to contact Disney on this issue, and stay vocal on it -- and not "just not go" anymore. Disney has to be confronted on their word games they play to distance themselves from their obvious support of this and such a small but militant community.

Homosexuality has not been "normalized" in American culture, no matter how much the left will state otherwise. It has simply, through coercion and force, been forced on mainstream culture. We need to oppose the intellectual and social tyranny employed by the fringe and retake the culture. If Disney, as a heretofore cultural institution of traditional values, wants to define themselves through their actions as an "Arena" in that conflict, so be it.

[proudofthesouth]

Disney knows EXACTLY whats going on they could change it only they choose not to. For example, they could CHOOSE to inform people of when gay days are being held when they are asked and post it on their website. But they choose NOT to. Wake up and smell the coffee. Those in charge at Disney are the leftists and they are very, very happy with the situation as it is.

[Levante]

"Thousands of red-shirted homosexuals are expected to attend."

Sounds alot like Italian Black-shirted fascists, German tan-suited storm troopers, and blue-shirted Spanish Falangists (fascists).

Hmm.......