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t’s a long way from where we used to be as a community, but here in the afterglow of the silver anniversary of all things GayDayS and Magical (and everything else!), the wait was obviously worth it. The history of protest against the community’s signature event is not that far off in the sepiatoned distance; and it’s probably not completely gone, but who cares? We are ourselves in a new phase of our collective identity; we are in charge of our futures; we continue to make a difference.

Also, we continue to enjoy a good time when a good time is due.

Though some of the principals involved have changed over the years – not to mention the fact that one “Day” has grown into virtually a full week – the mission remains the same: visibility. It’s gone beyond red shirts and rainbow flags, beyond marriage and into the realm of common decency bedazzled by uncommon talent.

If you’ve never experienced the big gay experience at Orlando’s attractions, clubs and watering holes, then you’re in for a treat. Within these pages, you’ll find an enormous list of things to do at the parks and in the surrounding areas. From pool parties to all-nighters, foodie events to pageants, drag shows to full-on performances, we’ve got you covered. Well, we’re kind of counting on you to keep yourself covered, but that’s a topic for the windmills of your mind.

So we implore you to lose yourself for just one (long) weekend and run amok with all of the entertainment options in your immediate grasp. For this annual nightcap to spring, it’s best to take it all in, live a little, breathe deeply and, likely, swim a lot. It’s going to be hot!

Grab your guide, make your lists, turn on your smartphone people-finders and make a go of it. You’ll be glad that you did. Welcome to the greatest show on earth.

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TUESDAY, MAY 31 GayDayS Kick-Off Party 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM ARTEGON MARKETPLACE, 5250 INTERNATIONAL DRIVE

Hosted by Coco Montrese from RuPaul’s Drag Race and GayDayS director of entertainment Steve Erics. Music, special appearances and more from the official GayDayS team are promised. So is the excitement of Artegon’s eclectic shoparound.

Oh, and it’s just the beginning. $20 advance, $30 door $50 advance, $70 door for VIP

Twisted Sisters Bingo

6:30 - 10:30 PM HAMBURGER MARY’S ORLANDO 110 W CHURCH ST

Miss Sammy and Carol Lee call the balls as only Miss Sammy and Carol Lee can. It may be no shuffleboard on the lido deck, but the acerbic and oddly generous comedy of this power duo will turn all of your powerballs into winners. It’s not about the game. It’s about the players (and the hosts). No cover

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 Trivia with Doug Ba’aser

7 - 9:30 PM HAMBURGER MARY’S ORLANDO 110 W CHURCH ST

A table vs. table trivia competition with half-off cocktails. What could possibly go right?

A: You remember things that you thought you never knew (or did).

Also, Doug Ba’aser will make you laugh out a rib. It’s bathing suit season! No cover

Taylor’s Funhouse

6 - 9 PM STONEWALL SKY BAR, 400 W. CHURCH STREET

Hosted by Orlando City Bear Club with DJ Captain Kirk. Half-off drinks! Half-off drinks!

Half-off drinks! Don’t miss the annual Beer Olympics hosted by your favorite bears.

Also, don’t forget that you were in the annual Beer Olympics.

That would be a shame. No cover

Karaoke

6:30 PM - 9:30 PM STONEWALL, 400 W. CHURCH STREET

Tommy and Scott host karaoke in the main bar, while you read the words to Garth Brooks’ “The Dance” on the screen and cry about that time you dated a straight guy in college.

No cover

GayDayS Main Pool Party (18+) NOON TO 5 PM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD

Nancy Starr and Chris Adams DJ the official GayDayS pool party.

Before you get super sloppy, bathe in the glory that is a pool party among hot people. Everyone will smell like chlorine, so body odor should absolutely not be an issue. $10 advance, $15 at the door

Pink Collar Comedy Show 8 PM ORLANDO IMPROV, POINTE ORLANDO, 9101 INTERNATIONAL DRIVE.

The worlds of stand up comedy and drag collide.

Featuring Jeff Jones, Carol Lee, Trixie Deluxxe and more. $5 (or free if

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Gah, it’s what you’re here for! Wait, though it is indeed a small world, Orlando’s distraction midway is bigger than you might think. Kick your Thursday off with visits to the peripheral attractions, Sea World and Animal Kingdom. Go wild. Rinse.

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GayDayS Expo

11 AM - 7 PM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD

Over 100 vendors will be present, each with things to throw in your swag bag.

The Expo is a great place to Nancy Starr and Chris Adams get your bearings in check DJ the official GayDayS pool for the weekend looming before you. Everything party. OK, here’s where from pet adoption kiosks things start getting dicey, but in a good way. You’re at to philanthropy to leisure will be there with a table a hotel, it’s getting darker and something to say. It’s and darker, the drinks are also a particularly fine area kicking in and you LOVE to do handstands in the water to make side eyes at future when your equilibrium is in paramours. Free and question. That’s right. You’re open to all ages going to find your husband and get married underwater.

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GayDayS Art Auction

10 AM -7 PM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD LOBBY BALLROOM

Should you tire of the billions of options being thrown at your face at the Expo, you can raise your bruised brow and wander the GayDayS Art Auction, firmly placing one finger to your mouth as if you’re telling everyone to shut up.

Free admission

GayDayS Thursday Main Pool Party (18+) 10 AM - 5 PM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD MAIN LAGOON POOL

The theme is Thirst Thursday with DJ Miss M, DJ Chomper, and DJ Amy Alderman.

The party is soaking wet, naturally. Expect shirtless shenanigans and blissful canoodling as Thursday meets its denouement. $25 advance, $35 at the door

GayDayS Bear Thursday Pool Party (18+) 5 PM - 2 AM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD BEAR CAVE LAGOON

With DJ Luke Hampel, DJ AJ Reddy and DJ Chris Adams at the helm, the thirst will turn into a hunger, the sun will set and you will have a pretty good idea of just why you came. $35 advance,

$40 at the door

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In Girls In Wonderland’s Traffic Jam, the ladies of the night are color coded, at least in terms of dress. Red means she’s taken. Yellow means proceed with caution. Green means go for it. $10 in advance $15 at the door

Taste of GayDayS

6 PM - 10 PM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD GREAT LAKES BALLROOM

What do you mean, you haven’t eaten anything yet! Listen, we get that you wanted to squeeze ever-so-tightly into those boxer-briefs you call a bathing suit, but you still need nutrients.

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GIRLS IN WONDERLAND 5 - 7 PM SHERATON LAKE BUENA VISTA RESORT, 12205 S APOPKA VINELAND ROAD

Mingling mixer by a poolside cabana, you say?

Well, we all know that Girls In Wonderland is the ladies hub of GayDayS, so expect exactly what you think you’d expect: Hot ladies letting their hair down and their voices up. No cover for hotel guests

PI@PH

8 PM - 3 AM PARLIAMENT HOUSE ORLANDO, 410 NORTH ORANGE BLOSSOM TRAIL

Ring in Friday with the PH Explosion dancers and a Latin Diva Revue Show, chica. PI@PH is one of our favorite events of the weekend, because, if only for one fleeting moment, Disney’s old nightlife friend Pleasure Island is resuscitated and allowed out of the house (and into the House).

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SUGGESTED THEME PARKS: UNIVERSAL ISLANDS OF ADVENTURE AND WALT DISNEY WORLD’S HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS

Traditionally, the turnout is huge for Universal’s Friday stroll through Islands of Adventure in crimson (sans clover). Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios will likewise feel the red.

You have so much to do!

Regular park hours and prices

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Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon goes gay for one night out of the year, and that can only mean that you absolutely have to be there without a shirt or any personal limits.

It’s likely that among the 6,000 expected revelers, your Mr. Right will be there, in a Speedo. You can’t fight fate. $114

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10 AM - 7 PM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD

It’s still happening! Over 100 vendors will be present for your personal perusal, and you’re at a hotel, so you can probably grab a drink or a date while you’re there. This, dear readers, is the throbbing heart of the syntax-challenging GayDayS experience, so you’ll find yourself wandering whether you know it or not.

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Wet Pool Party

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8 PM DRIP, 8747 INTERNATIONAL DRIVE, SUITE 102

DJs JB Burgos and Tony Ruggiero host a pool party you’ll never forget, but you’re just kidding yourself if you think you won’t forget some of it. These are the kind of parties therapy was made for. And this is only session one! $32

GayDayS Friday Main Pool Party (18+)

10 AM - 3 AM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD MAIN LAGOON POOL

The theme is Trade Friday with DJs J Warren, Chris Tavi and Drew G., which basically means you know what you’re in for: trade. If you don’t know what trade is, meet us in the ladies room. $25-$40

GayDayS Bears Friday Pool Party (18+)

An all-female love triangle gets splattered in art and DJs, drinking and dancing paint and circumstance 10 AM - 3 AM with the ladies who lunch! as one of Orlando’s most DOUBLETREE BY HILTON The Wet Pool Party is in no notable troupes puts ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD way implying that it’s the the damage on. There BEAR CAVE LAGOON opposite of a “dry” pool will be “rain” (you know, party, as there is a ticket water) and sand, creating A night of fun with cost, and it is our big gay what the troupe calls an “party activators” DJs weekend. It’s a party, see? “all-new definition of [a] Sean M, Miss M and It’s at a pool. ‘splash zone.’” There will Daniel Borrero. $15 advance, also be shirt cutting and $25-$40 $20 at door colored spirits. Your true colors are shining through!

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Miss GayDayS Pageant DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD 6 PM

Contestants vie for the crown, the cash and the opportunity to represent GayDayS for a year. There will be tears. $25 in advance, $30 at the door Runway seating is $40 in advance, $45 at the door.

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Ginger Minj, The Minx and Aysia Black host an interactive drag show, and you do not want to miss this. Ginger Minj, of course, is the stellar Adele-er from RuPaul’s Drag Race. She’s also Josh, and is about to become an international pop star. $1.99

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Network with the ladies from the National Center for Lesbian Rights over cocktails and live music.

Should be a great year for it, considering what a larger role NCLR played in achieving marriage equality last year. Free for hotel guests

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Out for Laughs Comedy Show GIRLS IN WONDERLAND 7:30 - 9:30 PM SHERATON LAKE BUENA VISTA RESORT, 12205 S APOPKA VINELAND ROAD

Comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer comes to town to let you know whether she’s a bottom or a top (oh, shut up. It’s a reference to one of her comedy specials).

She’s a bit of a maverick in the lesbian world, because she doesn’t believe what stereotypes you want to apply to lesbians. Respect. $25 in advance, $30 at door

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SATURDAY, JUNE 4 GayDayS Expo

10 AM - 7 PM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD

Before you hightail it to the big parks, take some time to take in the international offerings of the expo that you may or may not have already visited. Who cares?

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Splash Pool Party

GIRLS IN WONDERLAND 11 AM - 5 PM SHERATON LAKE BUENA VISTA RESORT, 12205 S APOPKA VINELAND ROAD

Sip tropical cocktails and listen to the “sexy sounds” of guest DJs and pool games. Wait, you’re not Shut up!!! Taryn Manning at Cinderella’s Castle? from Orange is the New For shame, hangoverBlack is going to be ess. Just the same, you performing a “celebrity set” can have all necessary at downtown’s Cheyenne frivolity with the Girls In Saloon? Prison is dead to us. Wonderland crew while Manning, who is gorgeous, sitting by the pool. $20 will be joined by DJ Citizen Jane (geddit?) and DJ Whitney Day for some Top DRIP 40 choons played out of the 8 PM old console stereo. Actually, DRIP, 8747 this event looks fantastic.

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Guest DJs play house and indie hits at this late night social. $10

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11 AM - 6 PM B RESORT & SPA 1905 HOTEL PLAZA BLVD

On Saturday, Edil and Brazil’s Gustavo Scorpio bump it up a few notches, with powerful but playful House, tribal and circuit beats. At this point, you’ve already removed your shirt and grabbed your water bottle, so don’t pretend. You’re therapy is working out marvelously.

Soon you’ll be perfectly well-adjusted. $32

Leigh Shannon’s Cabaret Dinner Show

7:30 - 10:30 PM HAMBURGER MARY’S ORLANDO 110 W CHURCH ST

Hamburger Mary’s promises the finest in female impersonation and comedy with special guests, but it’s much, much more than that. Local legend Leigh Shannon will pick her wig (and probably some other wigs on other heads) in a showstopping spectacular. $1.99

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$26 in advance, $31 at the door, $69 VIP

DON'TMISS... #RedShirtDay SUGGESTED THEME PARK:

WALT DISNEY WORLD’S MAGIC KINGDOM

THIS IS THE BIG DAY. Twenty-six years ago, LGBT folk puffed their chests and donned their red shirts to let the world know that we do indeed exist. Show your support in these (semi-) enlightened times by walking past Snow White in a red blouse with all the shimmy you’ve got. Expect to see airplanes dragging signs saying that you’re going to hell.

Also expect to laugh at how much money some people waste on bigotry.

Regular park hours and prices

Main Event Disney’s Hollywood Studios

ONE MAGICAL WEEKEND 9 PM - 3 AM

DJs Twisted Dee, Nina flowers and Kidd Madonny follow an opening performance by international house artist Beth Sacks. Price

of park admission

Sexy Superhero Saturday

9 PM - 2 AM STONEWALL, 741 W CHURCH ST

We’re not supposed to discuss themes here, but if spandex is a theme, then we’re totally in. Stonewall is celebrating its recent, superhuman expansion with a party celebrating the tight pants that show all of your business. Free

GayDayS Saturday Main Pool Party (18+)

10 AM - 5 PM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD MAIN LAGOON POOL

Featuring DJ Neon the Glowgobear, DJ Bret Law, and headliner Chi Chi LaRue, who, as you know, is a sort of porn icon. Chi Chi will be owning the whole scene at the Doubletree on Saturday, so you likely won’t miss the madness. $25 advance, $35 at door

GayDayS Saturday Main Pool Party (18+) 5 PM – 3 AM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD MAIN LAGOON POOL

Featuring DJ Neon the Glowgobear, DJ Bret Law, and headliner Chi Chi LaRue. It’s like an extended dance mix, really.

You won’t even know when 3 a.m. rolls around.

Oh, wait. Yes you will! $35 advance, $40 at door

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10 AM - 3 AM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD BEAR CAVE LAGOON

Featuring DJs Sinna G, Chomper and J Warren bare it all. Actually, they “bear” it all, though Sinna G doesn’t seem to have a beard. Shenanigans! $25 - $40

Porn Bingo with Chi Chi Larue

6 - 7 PM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD, GREAT LAKES BALLROOM

Chi Chi LaRue is going to take a break for Bingo.

We’re all getting a little older. But is “porn bingo” a thing? Are sexual organs used to blot boxes? Are we living in a world where sex and horror are the new gods? $20 advance,

$30 at door

Rocky Horror Picture Show Experience: LIVE at GayDayS

8 PM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD GREAT LAKES BALLROOM

Take a journey into the 1975 cross-dressing cult classic, realize that your whole life has been a drag show wrapped in horror bacon, laugh and then run as fast as you can. $15 advance, $25 at door

Sandra Bernhard SUNDAY, JUNE 5 & Deborah Cox #RedShirtDay 8 PM - 3 AM PARLIAMENT HOUSE ORLANDO, 410 NORTH ORANGE BLOSSOM TRAIL

SUGGESTED THEME PARKS: I-DRIVE 360: HOME OF THE ORLANDO EYE AND WALT DISNEY WORLD’S EPCOT

In a double bill that only On Sunday, everything the Parliament could looks round, so it helps pull off on this long that the iconic Epcot golfweekend, the amazing ball thing and the new Sandra Bernhard (she of Orlando Eye on I-Drive are numerous hit comedy your circle-backs to end albums, a Madonna your GayDayS experience. scandal and, presently, Regular park a spot on Bravo’s Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM network) hours and prices will be joined by “Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here” Broadway diva Deborah Cox for one of the weekend’s Brunch biggest highlights. You 11 AM - 1:30 PM can read our interview HAMBURGER MARY’S ORLANDO with Bernhard in our 110 W CHURCH ST June 2 issue; Prepare The Minx and Ginger yourselves, people. This Minj present song and is huge! Parliament dance from your favorite House $10 Broadway shows, because even if you weren’t eating, they’d be presenting After Hours, song and dance from your Rabbit Hole favorite Broadway shows.

GIRLS IN WONDERLAND 2 AM - 5 AM SHERATON LAKE BUENA VISTA RESORT, 12205 S APOPKA VINELAND ROAD

Girls In Wonderland continues the party back at the Sheraton, because you’re not here to sleep. $10

Cadabra After Hours

2 AM - 8 AM MANGO’S TROPICAL CAFE 8126, INTERNATIONAL DRIVE

DJs Alyson Calagna and Eddie Elias will relieve your sunburn and your summer-camp feeling with an after-hours party in Touristan. Did you lose your friends? They might be here. $49-$147

$1.99 entertainment fee

SATURDAY TO SUNDAY

GayDayS Bears Saturday Pool Party

GayDayS Sunday Main Pool Party (18+) 5 PM – 3 AM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD MAIN LAGOON POOL

Sanctuary Sunday closes with DJ Chris Cox. The insanity has now set in.

You’re dog-paddling in the pool, making a right mess of yourself. Still, it’s soundtracked, so you don’t have anything to worry about… except maybe that flight in the morning? $25 advance,

GayDayS $30 at door Sunday Main Pool Party (18+) GayDayS Bears 10 AM - 5 PM Pool Party DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD MAIN LAGOON POOL

Sanctuary Sunday kicks off with DJs Nancy Starr, Chris Adams, and Chris Cox. And Sanctuary is exactly what you need at this point: that, and a tall glass of water. Think of this as the Sunday Funday you’ve totally earned by standing in the sun (and rain) of an extended gay weekend.

Better still, don’t think. $25 advance, $30 at door

10 AM - 5 PM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD BEAR CAVE LAGOON

DJs Barney Philly, Sergio V, and C-Rail aim to charm the hirsute among us with the kind of beats that allow big arms to flail while hair clogs the drain.

These bears won’t tip over your trashcan. That is unless you ask them to. $25 advance, $35 at door

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5 PM – 2 AM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD BEAR CAVE LAGOON

DJs Barney Philly, Sergio V, and C-Rail aim to charm the hirsute among us with the kind of beats that allow big arms to flail while hair clogs the drain. These bears won’t tip over your trashcan. That is unless you ask them to. $35 advance, $40 at door

11 AM - 6 PM B RESORT & SPA

On Sunday, DJ Deanne and Cindel will mellow you out with romantic beats, because if anyone needs a chill pill right now, it’s that man or woman in the mirror. Looks like you made it! $32

Drag Bingo Extravaganza NOON - 2 PM DOUBLETREE BY HILTON ORLANDO AT SEAWORLD GREAT LAKES BALLROOM

Hosted by Harmoney Breeze and Imani Valentino, Miss GayDayS 2014 & 2015. $10 advance, $20 at door

DEEP

ONE MAGICAL WEEKEND 7 PM - 2 AM EPCOT AND EPCOT WORLD SHOWPLACE

SUNDAY

GayDayS Bears Pool Party

Therapy Session Three

Rides and a fireworks show. Music by Abel and Ralphi Rosario. $220

Betty Who & Estelle

3 PM - 3 AM PARLIAMENT HOUSE ORLANDO, 410 NORTH ORANGE BLOSSOM TRAIL

“American Boy” singer Estelle performs her hits, including “One Love” and “No Substitute for Love,” while Betty Who pops in with her “Heartbreak Dream” to let you know that “Somebody Loves You.”You’re going to need that somebody after this weekend! $10 before 6PM, $30 after 6PM

Cadabra After Hours

ONE MAGICAL WEEKEND 2 AM - 8 AM MANGO’S TROPICAL CAFE, 8126 INTERNATIONAL DRIVE

DJs Alex Acosta and Paulo wrap the whole shebang up with an all-nighter. Until next year, then! $49-$147

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