Man told to cover up at Disneyland ‘Gay Day’ after wearing incredibly short shorts
By Will Stroude
A short shorts-wearing man has complained after being told to cover up during a recent trip to Disneyland, arguing that women were allowed to enter the park showing a similar amount of leg.
Anthony Gilét, the editor of Cocktails & Cocktalk, attended an unofficial ‘Gay Day’ at a Disneyland resort in California last weekend wearing an oversized t-shirt and workout shorts when he says was told to cover up by a staff member or risk being removed.
Gilet claims that just a few minutes after entering the park, he was chased down by a member of staff who asked him to change his outfit or risk being asked to leave by security on the grounds that it was a “family park”.
“I didn’t want any drama – and certainly didn’t wanna get kicked outta Disney after paying $99 entry – so put on the longer shorts I had in my bag,” Gilet wrote. “But the more I thought about it, I began to question. What exactly was the issue? Was it the fact that there was so much leg on show? Because there were countless girls walking around in booty shorts.
“How is it any different from a girl in those? Or even a dress? Was she asking women if they had anything on under their short skirts too?”
He continued: “Would she have approached a girl wearing just an oversized jersey? Would it have been OK if the jersey had been tucked into the shorts? The fact that she stated it was a “family park” suggests that there was something offensive about the outfit; so are men’s legs different from women’s? I was certainly wearing more than [The Little Mermaid’s] Ariel.”
He concluded by saying: “I fully understand that my outfit was a bit unusual and apparently not conservative enough for Disney – but I’m struggling to see the issue. I wasn’t wearing an offensive slogan, and I had shorts on underneath that weren’t going to expose anything when I sat down.
“What was the line that had been crossed?”
Meanwhile, US country star Steve Grand was forced to defend a similarly skimpy pair of swimwear earlier this summer, after social media users labelled them “stereotypically gay” – click here to find out more.
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