Disneyland, based in California, announced it will be hosting the first-ever Pride Nite during Pride Month.
On Monday, Disney posted about the two-night event on its official Twitter page.
“The first-ever Disneyland After Dark: Pride Nite is coming to [Disneyland] during Pride Month in June! This separately ticketed event celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community & allies will have themed entertainment, Disney characters, specialty menu items & more,” officials wrote.
Users on Twitter slammed Disney for implementing the idea.
“Thank you for vindicating our family’s decision to drop our Disneyland season passes…,” media personality John Zeigler wrote.
Another user supported Disney but did not agree with the theme park singling out the LGBT community.
The first-ever Disneyland After Dark: Pride Nite is coming to @Disneyland during Pride Month in June! This separately ticketed event celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community & allies will have themed entertainment, Disney characters, specialty menu items & more: https://t.co/Y6vOJ3QXms pic.twitter.com/j97sB1kHod
— Disney (@Disney) April 17, 2023
“I was in the Disney corner but why do we need to highlight any group. I care less if you are gay, straight or any color. Wear what you like but to highlight a 1% minority and push this in our faces is a problem,” the user wrote.
The user added, “The silent majority is tired of this narrative of oppression.”
Another user wrote, “Ok, groomers.”
According to Disneyparks.com, Disneyland After Dark: Pride Nite will take place on June 13 and June 15.
The “pre-party mix-in” will last for three hours from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Each night followed by a “private party” from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The announcement came after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis revealed that “the state legislature is introducing a bill to revoke a quiet last-minute deal that a Disney-controlled special district board made with the company shortly before a new state-controlled board was set to take over,” per the Daily Wire.
“They [Disney] are not superior to the laws that are enacted by the state of Florida. They thought they could create a development agreement that would render everything we did null and void. That’s not going to work, that’s not going to fly,” DeSantis stated during a press conference.
He added, “Whatever rationale there was 60 years ago to do that, clearly, now, we’re in a much different era as a state, we’ve got a lot of competitors that are treated differently, a lot of businesses and individuals treated differently. We don’t want to do that. We want to make sure that Disney lives under the same laws as everybody else.”
