Most people who know me know that I'm moderately anti-Disney. Without getting into a lengthy explanation, it's due mostly to a shift in focus in the 90's from making entertainment to making money.
However, this post is not a diatribe against Disney but rather about my cousin and I taking our children to Disneyland for the first time. Yesterday, we went to Disneyland.
Every parent and child needs to experience the rite of passage known as "Disneyland" at least once. For the child because it really is a children-oriented place, designed for entertaining them and, the parents, for the experience of trying to keep a child happy while you are progressively becoming less so and of paying $3.75 for a bottle of water.
We'd made plans to go over a month ago but none of us thought to check the park schedule of events because yesterday was their 10th annual gay day celebration. On that day, gay & lesbian persons are invited to attend and show their pride by wearing red shirts. This is, apparently, a very popular occasion because it seemed like, at least, a third of the people there were wearing red shirts.
I'm not going to criticize anyone - what people do with their lives is their own business. However, for a strait person, attending with their family, arriving in the middle of this event was very surprising.
The funny thing was that this particular weekend was also the middle of baseball playoffs and football games. The USC Trojans (football) and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (baseball) had games yesterday and their colors are predominately red. Those being Southern California teams, it was inevitable that some people would be showing their team spirit by wearing team shirts.
Red team shirts + gay day = some embarrassed people. I'm glad no one in our party had worn red.
Normally, I wouldn't have gone to Disneyland but I wanted to take the kids. And I had a surprisingly good time. The lines were ridiculously long and the kids were fidgety but it turned out alright. Score half a point for Disney.
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