A gay man visiting Disneyland during its “Unofficial Gay Days” event was nearly ejected from the park over the outfit he was wearing.
Anthony Gilét, revealed on his Web site that soon after entering the park he was chased down by a park employee who told him to change his shorts or risk expulsion.
“I was certainly wearing more than Ariel,” the gay Web site manager wrote in a post on his site describing the experience.
The Advocate reported that Gilét was at the park for the Unofficial ‘Gay Days,’ when thousands of gay and lesbian patrons visit the park and identify themselves by wearing a red t-shirt or football jersey. He didn’t have a red T-shirt that he liked so he wore an oversized red and white jersey with the number 13, which covered up his shorts.
“Within a few minutes of being inside the park, a member of staff chased us down, before asking ‘do you have anything on under that top?’ So I told her yes, and showed her the shorts I had on underneath. To which she replied, ‘OK… Because it gives the impression that you have nothing on underneath. Do you have a change of outfit, because if not, security may remove you from the park.’ Really? Why?
“She continued, ‘It’s just that it’s a family park.’”
Not wanting any drama, Gilét changed into a longer pair of shorts. “I fully understand that my outfit was a bit unusual and apparently not conservative enough for Disney — but I’m struggling to see the issue,” Gilét wrote. “I wasn’t wearing an offensive slogan, and I had shorts on underneath that weren’t going to expose anything when I sat down. What was the line that had been crossed?”
non issue-he looked dumb with the shorter shorts..