Goldenshield From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5446 posts, RR: 12 Posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1536 times:
Disney is now opening its wedding service to gay couples.
Luv2fly From United States of America, joined May 2003, 11957 posts, RR: 51 Reply 1, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1532 times:
In 2005, Southern Baptists ended an eight-year boycott of the Walt Disney Co. for violating "moral righteousness and traditional family values."
While I'm not gay, I don't see why it would be a problem necessarily. It's kind of a weird thing anyway. I don't think I'd ever associate romance with Disney. Of course, I've always fantasized that all the guys in the world would turn gay and then I'd get my pick of the women!
Ok, that's a dream and I have a fine gf now so it doesn't matter. :P
Luv2fly From United States of America, joined May 2003, 11957 posts, RR: 51 Reply 3, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1511 times:
Quoting Halcyon (Reply 2): While I'm not gay, I don't see why it would be a problem necessarily. It's kind of a weird thing anyway. I don't think I'd ever associate romance with Disney. Of course, I've always fantasized that all the guys in the world would turn gay and then I'd get my pick of the women!
Well being Gay I would not associate Disney with either Romance or someplace I want to ever go back to. I always thought it was an ideal place to decide to become Gay after spending hours with all those kids.
One thing for whatever reason Disney is big for weddings! Never understood that.
Nosedive From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 1390 times:
Quoting Luv2fly (Reply 1): for violating "moral righteousness and traditional family values."
9/10 divorced Southern Bapists, of which 7/10 had sex before marriage, believe gay marriage will turn kids gay. They base this claim that strait parents raise strait kids and the same principle must be true for homosexual couples who adopt children. Thus, it's best to keep praying to American Jesus for salvation.
Quoting Doona (Reply 6): Who the hell get's married at Disneyland anyway?!
Good question. Westy, whose "queer card" needs revoking b/c they got married at Disneyland?
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18871 posts, RR: 64 Reply 9, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 1387 times:
Quoting Nosedive (Reply 8): Westy, whose "queer card" needs revoking b/c they got married at Disneyland?
I may not be the best authority on this, as any wedding invitations which note "Disneyland" as the locale are immediately shredded as junk mail. Now the Bel-Air Hotel is a completely different story.
Adh214 From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 353 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 1335 times:
I am glad to see Disney doing this. At the end of the day, gay marriage is not officially recognized in California or Florida so all that is really happening is two men or two women promising to love and honor each other until death do us part.
I am sure the religous conservatives will go nuts about this but it really has no impact on them. Whether you exchange vows at Disneyland or Walmart, the more important part is the committment and how you treat and care for each other everyday.
TSS From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 2870 posts, RR: 5 Reply 12, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 1291 times:
EWRCabincrew From United States of America, joined May 2006, 5522 posts, RR: 57 Reply 13, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 1268 times:
Quoting Luv2fly (Reply 1): In 2005, Southern Baptists ended an eight-year boycott of the Walt Disney Co. for violating "moral righteousness and traditional family values."
Their kids kept nagging that the other kids got to go.
Quoting Luv2fly (Reply 1): Well look for it to be restarted!
Until the kids start nagging again.
Quoting Luv2fly (Reply 3): Well being Gay I would not associate Disney with either Romance or someplace I want to ever go back to.
I just associate Disny with long lines for 'E' ticket rides (did I just show my age?).
Quoting Luv2fly (Reply 3): I always thought it was an ideal place to decide to become Gay after spending hours with all those kids.
Exactly. That or to use birth control.
Quoting TSS (Reply 4): If this takes off, I expect the wedding chapels in Nevada will follow suit.
At the Drive-Thru Chapel 'O Love.
Quoting TedTAce (Reply 10): I'm Glad WDW is doing this, I'm just waiting to see what the 'gay days' tie in is.
Both grooms have to wear red tuxes.
Quoting TSS (Reply 12): Has Nevada ever shied away from any enterprise that generates cash?
Quoting Adh214 (Reply 11): At the end of the day, gay marriage is not officially recognized in California or Florida so all that is really happening is two men or two women promising to love and honor each other until death do us part.
I took this "The Walt Disney Co. had limited its Fairy Tale Wedding program to couples with valid marriage licenses, but it is now making ceremonies at its parks available to gay couples as well." to mean those with valid (regardless if they are recognised) licenses. Like mine.
Quoting Adh214 (Reply 11): Whether you exchange vows at Disneyland or Walmart, the more important part is the committment and how you treat and care for each other everyday.
Goldenshield From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5446 posts, RR: 12 Reply 14, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 1252 times:
Quoting Adh214 (Reply 11): Whether you exchange vows at Disneyland or Walmart,
A wedding at a Wal-mart is just plain tacky.
"Yeah, me and mah bride had our ceremony at the sporting goods section. We handed out packs of 50 caliber bullets as door gifts."
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.
Searpqx From Netherlands, joined Jun 2000, 4343 posts, RR: 12 Reply 16, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 1225 times:
Quoting EWRCabincrew (Reply 13): I just associate Disny with long lines for 'E' ticket rides (did I just show my age?).
Only if I showed mine by getting the reference!
Quoting AeroWesty (Reply 9): as any wedding invitations which note "Disneyland" as the locale are immediately shredded as junk mail.
Aw c'mon - I can see a booming business for a certain segment of the gay population at the Country Bear Jamboree (though it might be embarrassing when one of the guests is mistaken for one of the animatronic performers!)
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Mariner From New Zealand, joined Nov 2001, 22724 posts, RR: 88 Reply 17, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 1186 times:
Whether Disneyland knows it or not (they must), there is a long and deep association.
Years ago, I went to an L. A. Aids Benefit at Disneyland. The park was closed to the public and it was a great night. Most of the population of Boystown and the Swish Alps seemed to be there, everyone dressed up for the occasion, with a fair number in their very finest frocks.
They used to show a 20 minute 3D movie - "Captain EO" - directed by Francis Ford Coppola, produced by George Lucas and starring Michael Jackson, out to save the world.
Every screening was packed, and everyone in the audience knew all the lines, chanting along with Michael Jackson (or cheering him on - "Tell it like it is, Michael!").
The 3D effects were great and led to that classic line "I thought Michael was coming straight at me!"
At one point, I was in the Dumbo ride with an older chum, who had had a encounter with a stranger the previous evening. It is an odd feeling to be soaring over Disneyland in a gondola shaped like Dumbo, while the chum described his antics with his one-nighter in lurid detail.
But the best was at the end. It was night, a sea fog was drifting in, surrounding the Enchanted Castle and music started to play over the loudspeakers.
Everyone knew the words and everyone joined in. It was really quite moving, to be standing among ten thousand people, many of them in drag, all singing and some with tears in their eyes - "When you wish upon a star" -
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18871 posts, RR: 64 Reply 18, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 1175 times:
Quoting Searpqx (Reply 16): I can see a booming business for a certain segment of the gay population at the Country Bear Jamboree
LOL! You know, I lived in L.A. long enough that every single last person I knew came by at least once to visit and wanted to go to Dizzyland. I adore the place, but I came to look at it as just too much hot, dry cement and asphalt, where I wouldn't want to go for a wedding.
I'd go again--I've never been to Disney World, and would love to go sometime, but for a wedding, no, I don't think so.
EWRCabincrew From United States of America, joined May 2006, 5522 posts, RR: 57 Reply 19, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1171 times:
Quoting Searpqx (Reply 16): Aw c'mon - I can see a booming business for a certain segment of the gay population at the Country Bear Jamboree
Yeppers. Everyone loves a bear. We make for friends.
Quoting AeroWesty (Reply 18): but for a wedding, no, I don't think so.
The wedding (any wedding for that matter) would be a mickey mouse event (pardon the pun).
BCAInfoSys From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 20, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1146 times:
Disney World in Florida is actually a HUGE wedding destination. Both for ceremonies and honeymoons, it's one of the top locales in the country. Yeah I'm biased as I'n a former Castmember; but I would love to have a Disney wedding; if only they weren't so damn expensive.
Believe me, WDW is lightyears better then DL. I miss it so much already.
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18871 posts, RR: 64 Reply 21, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1145 times:
Quoting EWRCabincrew (Reply 19): The wedding (any wedding for that matter) would be a mickey mouse event (pardon the pun).
If it was me, and I was indulging my S.O. to have a ceremony there, I'd insist it be in the Enchanted Tiki Room, with a beach party for the reception. There's just something about a tiki party that floats my boat.
TSS From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 2870 posts, RR: 5 Reply 22, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 1098 times:
Quoting Searpqx (Reply 16): I can see a booming business for a certain segment of the gay population at the Country Bear Jamboree (though it might be embarrassing when one of the guests is mistaken for one of the animatronic performers!)
Or better yet, when someone has a little too much to drink and mistakes one of the animatronic performers for a wedding guest...
LTU932 From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 13864 posts, RR: 51 Reply 23, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 1089 times:
Quoting Doona (Reply 6): Who the hell get's married at Disneyland anyway?!
Probably those who don't have the money for gambling and having a wedding in Vegas.
Personally, this is the first time I ever hear that there are weddings in Disneyland. I don't even want to know if they do weddings at Disneyland Paris as well (I'm a bit conservative when it comes to having my own wedding).
Jaysit From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 24, posted (6 years 1 month 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 990 times:
I guess for every tacky queen there is a tacky gay Disney wedding.
Personally, I prefer the Miranda Hobbes weds Steve, the bartender wedding myself. Find a small park in the middle of NYC, call 12 of your closest friends, say your vows in their presence for about 5 mintues, and then go have lunch and cocktails.
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