Gay Day at Cedar Point

I don't want to get into an argument about weather it's a good idea or not., but here's an idea.
Since today is the unofficial Gay Day at Cedar Point, and some people are against the fact that it is the same day as Father's Day, I wonder if the park made it official and held it, say, next Sunday would the people attending actually move their visits or would it just stay where it is? Or even expand to two Sunday's?

By making it official I believe it would put a bad light on cedar point for singleing out the gay community. I believe Cedar Point should just let it go. Its just like a group of us going.

I think it's a great idea for Gay Day. No, I'm not gay, but I'm sick of all the hate they get. So get over yourselves!

Cedar Point will never make it official, just aint gonna happen.

From my understanding, Fathers Day was chosen because it is usually a pretty slow day in the park anyway.

I usually aim for gay day to be honest, because everyone is scared away from the park, and everything is a 2 minute wait, and gays don't bother me that much so I win.

I'm all for moving CP's unofficial Gay Day back a week. It's not Cedar Point's doing anyway, (and we get it, guys, probably never will be) so it would be up to the participating communities to "officially" move the unofficial day and let everyone know. That's all that it would take, and nobody cares what Cedar Point or their other customers think about it. Father's Day was traditionally a good choice, if for no other reason than it's kind of a slow day. But...

Both Cleveland and Columbus are having their Pride Celebrations this weekend. Columbus' weekend (with 185,000 attending yesterday, police est.) was moved up a week and relocated to Goodale Park due to re-construction of the downtown park where the festival is usually held. (Columbus' huge Com Fest is next weekend and it would be impossible to hold both events at Goodale Park.) This has turned out to be a smart move, it's the first year that the festival could be held Friday night and all day Saturday, (like Cleveland's), plus the new location is in the heart of the Short North neighborhood where a lot of the restaurants and clubs are.

So the Cleveland folks might be able to cap off their weekend with a Sunday trip to Cedar Point, but in Columbus there's a huge third-day event, the Bat-n-Rouge softball game. (with the players dressed as comical character drag queens, always hilarious and a big money-raiser) So I would imagine Gay attendance from Columbus, at least, is low at Cedar Point today. If it was moved to a different weekend, the next one would be fine, then they'd get a much better turn out.

It seems very weird to hold gay day on Father's Day considering most males who are fathers come from a generation that really was unaccepting of gays when they were young. Why celebrate it on Father's Day when gays can't be "real" parents anyway, i.e. procreation.

OMG, Morte'615, why oh why did you have to start this up? I actually was thinking just the other day that we might get by this year without this topic rearing it's ugly head. So, thanks, and here we go.

First to OKSIRYDOC - "Everyone" is not scared away from the park because a handful of gay people are planning on showing up. As far as I know, no regional warning is broadcasted to let everyone know just in case. In fact, it's a pretty regular day and the gay people and the straight people all stand in those short lines together and everything is fine. As it should be. I'm glad that gay people don't bother you "that much", and you are able to endure our presence so you can enjoy those 2 minute wait times. On the days that I've attended, really, nobody seemed bothered at all. I'm surprised I wasn't able to pick you out. You don't sound like a winner to me.

And DumaKey12122 - I'm not sure exactly where to begin with you. Lets start by explaining that gay people can be parents. We are parents. And in the "real" sense. Our reproductive systems work just fine, and if we want to become parents in the traditional sense we can and do. I know plenty of gay men who are fathers and plenty of lesbians who are mothers. Real parents with real children, and they did not go to the cabbage patch to pick them up. Please strive to become less short sighted. And I'm really not understanding your first statement - no one is trying to establish a connection, or a disconnection, by holding this casual event on Fathers Day. It doesn't matter what a previous generation's impressions of homosexuality is. I'm not sure, but perhaps that day was chosen years ago because it's percieved as a free day to most of us. And true, most gay guys I know are not dads. But all men and women have fathers, and we might like to spend the day with them rather than visit Cedar Point.

Like I said in my previous post, I'm all for a change in Cedar Point's Unofficial Gay Day, but not for any of the ridiculous reasons above. But I'm mostly for a change in attitude that will allow gay people to happily co-exist at the amusement park without anyone giving it a second thought.

DumaKey12122 said:
Why celebrate it on Father's Day when gays can't be "real" parents anyway, i.e. procreation.

Wow, just wow! Wake up and smell the coffee would ya?

Gay day is the Sunday before Pride weekend for most parks. Pride celebrations are the last weekend of June in most cities to commemorate the Stonewall rebellion, a major milestone in the LGBT rights movement. There is nothing sinister or subversive about having gay day at most amusement parks on Fathers' Day. Move Fathers' Day to a different calendar date and gay day will still be the second to last Sunday in June.

What is wrong with this world. Why are gays so wrong? I mean seriously!

Hey it's free PR. What difference does it make. Make tommorrow swine flu day, that is what should cause a stir, not gay people coming to the park, spending their money, and having fun.

Well I know as a fat person that I just HATE having to stand in line with all you skinny people, with all your taking up 25-50% less space.

Awww, I wondered when this topic would come up. I thought we had finally matured past the point of it coming up this year. Doh!

I know this topic oh so well. My wife and I are part of what I will call an alternative lifestyle. We generally keep it pretty quite because of what thick heads say and do not want to deal with it.

wow, All i can say is WOW! Who gives a $h!t if your Bi, Gay, or Straight! I mean we are all people! I have a few gay friends and guess what i don't give a rats @$$ if they kiss or hold hands or whatever, If they cant then us Straight people cant ether. Some people just need to get a grip of reality and get on with there lives GOOD GRIEF!

It will be fun, 5 or 8 or 15 years from now, to look back over this thread and have a good laugh. Do you understand how ridiculous and dated homophobia is going to seem? It's like opening a newspaper from 50 years ago and reading letters to the editor raging about how Jackie Robinson shouldn't play in the majors because he's colored.

I speak from firsthand experience, of course. As Ensign, I've been to the future already numerous times. ;)

But you never survived any of the trips, so how do you know how it'll be? ;)

Not every red shirt buys it on every away expedition! You may not believe it, but most of the time we lower ranking types spend our time at the mess, getting trashed on Rigellian brandy and telling bad tribble limericks, or skulking around the holodeck for the off chance to feel up Troi...

I'm lost...