“For one night, Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park becomes entirely yours for the party of the year,” online ads had promised.
Each had spent $100 or more on tickets for a private, adults-only Pride bacchanal called Riptide. Last Friday evening, about 6,000 people - almost all of them gay men - poured into a Walt Disney World water park near Orlando, Florida. Visitors in red shirts, symbolically important - especially in its early years - of what is informally known as Gay Days, at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., June 4, 2022.
