{"id":93,"date":"2008-10-09T15:29:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T21:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/?p=93"},"modified":"2008-10-09T15:29:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T21:29:39","slug":"disneyland-gay-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/disneyland-gay-days","title":{"rendered":"Disneyland Gay Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So when we went to Disneyland, they had Gay Days going.\u00a0 Totally cool overall, i think it&#8217;s an excellent idea.\u00a0 Unfortunately, as is the case with everything, some jackasses have to ruin everyone&#8217;s fun.\u00a0 There were some tools wearing some offensive shirts at the park, and essentially got away with it.\u00a0 I sent this letter off to Disneyland to see why this happened, and has apparently happened for several years now<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>My family and I traveled from Utah last week to give my kids their very  first Disneyland experience.\u00a0 I looked into it fairly thoroughly  before-hand and was satisfied with the way the additional time was  granted at California Adventure to compensate for the early closure of  Disneyland for Miley Cyrus&#8217; birthday party.<br \/>\nI did not however manage to compensate for Gay Days.\u00a0 Although it was  not a Disneyland sanctioned event, this was planned right on top of  Miley Cyrus&#8217; birthday, which caused a huge amount of issues for  navigating the park, as the population was as dense as some of the most  popular weekends. Then, sometime in the middle of the afternoon, we  started encountering gay guests wearing offensive clothing.\u00a0 The one  that sticks out in my mind most was one that stated &#8216;Butt-Pirates of the  Carribean&#8217;.\u00a0 I do not understand why or how these men were allowed to  wear clothing that inevitably causes questions from children that should  not have to be answered within the realm of Disney.\u00a0 At the very least,  these guests should have been told to turn their shirt inside-out, if it  continued they should have been asked to leave and return in appropriate  attire.\u00a0 There were also several gay men dressed in very &#8216;tight&#8217; shorts,  leaving nothing to the imagination.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really know if they came in  the park this way, but they should not have been allowed to stay at the  park while dressed this way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I finally had to essentially tell my children to ignore anyone wearing  red, to NOT read the sayings on their shirts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am highly supportive of the gay community, and had absolutely no issue  &#8216;sharing&#8217; the park with their event.\u00a0 However, regardless of race,  color, religion, or sexual orientation they should be required to follow  the same rules as every guest.<br \/>\n****<br \/>\nClothing or tattoos with obscene, lewd or offensive language, graphics  or designs<br \/>\nClothing that could be construed as indecent, exposing excessive  portions of skin that may be viewed as inappropriate for a family  environment (e.g., string bikini tops and bottoms, G-strings, clothing  that accentuates or draws attention to private areas)<br \/>\n****<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What I am wanting to know is, WHY and WHAT?\u00a0 Why did your park do  nothing about the offensive apparel.\u00a0 Why did they not escort these  extrememly rude individuals out of the park.\u00a0 Why did I have to  continually tell my children, &#8216;Don&#8217;t worry about it, you&#8217;ll understand  it when you are older&#8217;?\u00a0 Why are you giving group rated discounts to a  group that is this offensive? What are you going to do to ensure that  this does not continue happening, as this apparently is becoming a  yearly thing with this &#8216;un-sanctioned&#8217; event.\u00a0 Finally, What are you  going to do to compensate for your lack of rules enforcement, causing my  children&#8217;s first visit to Disneyland to be ruined on many levels?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sincerely,<br \/>\nKyle Siemer<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, now it&#8217;s essentially their issue, to see how they want to deal with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when we went to Disneyland, they had Gay Days going.\u00a0 Totally cool overall, i think it&#8217;s an excellent idea.\u00a0 Unfortunately, as is the case with everything, some jackasses have to ruin everyone&#8217;s fun.\u00a0 There were some tools wearing some offensive shirts at the park, and essentially got away with it.\u00a0 I sent this letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvanus.darkbydesign.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}