My husband and I were sitting in the stands of my daughter’s gymnastics competition a few years ago when a couple of moms behind us started talking about a recent Disney trip gone awry.
One of the moms accidentally booked their family trip the same weekend as Gay Days, an annual Disneyland/Disney World event that welcomes LGBTQ+ visitors to the theme parks. Disney doesn’t officially endorse the event, but the resort has a long history of supporting it, setting up photo ops around the park for couples, adding rainbow merch to their shops and rainbow desserts to their menus.
This was not a happy accident for this mom, who told the other mom that her daughter saw two men kissing and asked her parents, “Why are those two men kissing?”
