Gay Days® Orlando 2012
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May 31 – June 6 Cowboys Presenting Sponsor Contents Gay Days® 2011 Gay Days® Corral . 4 Yee Haw, This is the Center of It All! Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday . 7 Let’s Get This Jamboree Started! Gay Days® Expo . .14 Pony Up to the Marketplace Dining . 22 Rustle Up Some Grub Friday . 29 Grab Your Buckaroo and Join the Shindig! Saturday . 33 Giddy Up and Git Down! The Big Day . 34 Mosey On Over to the Magic Kingdom Map . 40 Blaze a Trail to Gay Days® Sunday . 47 This Rodeo Ain’t Over Yet! Travel . 53 Saddle Up and Ride Out Welcome to Gay Days® 2011! Welcome to our 21st Anniversary of Gay Days® Orlando. Our The calendars will once again follow the flow of the week with theme this year is ‘Cowboys & Cowgirls’ so mosey on down the first one highlighting Tuesday, May 31st through Thursday, to the biggest GLBT vacation event in the U.S. of A. partner! June 2nd. Then we have Friday, Saturday, and Sunday calendar pages positioned around the event ads that fall on those days. We’re proud to have the International Gay Rodeo Association and the Florida Gay Rodeo Association joining us for the Gay Days® Orlando continues to grow and is one of the largest week. Visit their booth in the Gay Days® Orlando Expo at GLBT vacation events in the world. 150,000+ travel from all fifty the Gay Days® Orlando Host Hotel, the Doubletree by Hilton states and many foreign countries. If you are a regular you might Orlando at SeaWorld on International Drive, and find out be asking why do we keep repeating Gay Days® & Orlando, more about the rodeo events they hold around the country. since that is where it has always been held. Our BIG news, if You might even lasso a winner. you haven’t already heard, is starting in September 2012, we will be holding our 1st Annual Gay Days® Las Vegas. This is in ® Gay Days Orlando is a weeklong vacation event so start your addition to continuing Gay Days® Orlando at the beginning planning as soon as possible. A visit to the Magic Kingdom on of the summer. We have an office joke that now Gay Days® Saturday, June 4th will show you how it all started. That is the Orlando is 21 years old and legal, we are going to SIN ® annual tradition for most Gay Days Orlando attendees even if CITY and party. Just a partial joke since you don’t have it isn’t your fist time at the rodeo. And don’t forget to schedule to be BAD to have a GREAT time in Las Vegas. See a visit to all the other great attractions and shows that Central our ad in the magazine and book your room as Florida offers. soon as possible. You can also visit Mya at the Las We’re also proud to have Bud Light, our Gay Days® Vegas Convention & Visitors Authorities booth Presenting Sponsor, and Instinct Magazine, our national in the Expo to find out about all the fun you will media sponsor, back for their 10th year as sponsors. They have in Las Vegas anytime of the year or visit have made Gay Days® Orlando, the best event in the world. GayVegasTravel.com. Make sure to thank them when you get a chance. To our Gay Days® Orlando 2011 visitors, Other sponsors include Discovery Cove, a Gay Days® Orlando we’re happy you’re here! Please vacation Promotional Partner, which will take you a full day, but is worth safely and start planning for Gay Days® the trip. Blue Man Group at Universal Orlando is back once again Orlando 2012. The dates are May 29–June as a Sponsor of Gay Days® Orlando. This year we have Cirque 4, 2012. Remember to book your 2012 du Soleil La Nouba as a first time Gay Days® Orlando Sponsor, hotel room while you’re here to get the and they are offering a very special deal on their Friday, best rooms. Also mark your calendars June 3rd performances and good deals on any of their other and make a date for the first Gay Days® performances during the week. Mr. Sisters, Orlando’s newest Las Vegas September 4 – 10, 2012. ® GLBT nightclub/restaurant is also a first time Gay Days Sponsor Happy Gay Days® To All And To All A Gay Life! and has a full schedule of national entertainment for the week. All the staff & volunteers of ® Visit all of their booths in the Gay Days Orlando Expo, or check Gay Days®, Inc. online to find out more about these great offers. For more info on our Orlando & Las Unless you plan on not sleeping, you’ll find it hard to attend Vegas events please visit www. ® even half of the events during Gay Days Orlando. Check out GayDayS.com & ® our calendars throughout the Gay Days Orlando magazine. www.GirlsAtGayDayS.com Acknowledgements Chris Manley Michael Cartolano & Suchada Priyakorn Cartolano President Design, Illustration, & Production Penny Edgar-Reed Special Thanks to Abbott Printing Office Diva Printed in the USA Beverly Edgar-Reed To advertise in future Gay Production Manager Days® Orlando or Las Vegas magazines, please email: [email protected] 2 Gay Days® 2011 4 GAY DAYS® 2011 Yee Haw, This is the Center of It All! The Doubletree by Hilton Orlando at SeaWorld TROPICAL PARADISE—This is what describes our 1,000 room host hotel where many of the Gay Days® Orlando events happen during the week. It is the largest Doubletree in the world and you’ll see why it is also the BEST one in the world. Don’t forget to pick up THE COOKIE at the hotel’s front desk as you check in. And no RESORT FEE! If you haven’t booked a room here yet, check our website or stop by the Gay Days® Ticket & Merchandise Center in the lobby to see if there were any last minute room cancellations. GAY DAYS® TICKET & MERCHANDISE CENTER— Starting a day earlier than last year, on Wednesday, June 1st we will be opening the Gay Days Orlando Ticket & Merchandise Center for your shopping pleasure. GAY DAYS® POOL PARTIES—Our Gay Days® Orlando Main Pool Parties begin Wednesday, June 1st, a day earlier this year as well, so come with your swimwear. GAY DAYS® WELCOME BAGS—Wednesday you’ll be able to get these from the Gay Days®/Esurance Welcome & Information Booth in the hotel lobby. Thanks to THE CENTER for staffing this booth. GAY DAYS® EXPO—On Thursday, June 2nd, the 13th Annual Gay Days® Orlando Expo begins with more than 100 vendors who will be sampling beer & wine, selling jewelry, clothing, travel, and so much more. Many vendors will be giving away great items to stuff in your Gay Days® Welcome Bags. TASTE OF GAY DAYS®—Thursday evening we’ll be hosting Taste Of Gay Days®, a beer, wine, spirits, and food tasting on property. The Gay Days® Roundup, a 12-step recovery event, is also on property. See their ad on page 21. Remember if you’re going to drink, RESPONSIBILITY MATTERS, so take a designated driver or take a taxi. We want everyone back for Gay Days® Orlando 2012. GIRLS AT GAY DAYS®—Beginning Thursday, June 2nd, saunter on over to the Womyn’s Wing for events all day long. BEARS AT GAY DAYS®—On Friday, June 3rd, check out the Bear Wing of the hotel for three days of great events like pool parties and dances. GAY DAYS® LITERARY FESTIVAL—Friday, June 3rd starts the Gay Days® Literary Festival with authors from around the country promoting and selling their books. Grab a great novel to read while you’re sunning by the pool, resting in your room, or for the trip back home. GAY DAYS® AUTO SHOW—Saturday, June 4th, we will host the 2nd Annual Gay Days® Auto Show with Flamingo Auto Group West. See some sweet rides and head down memory lane with some of these vintage vehicles. GAY DAYS® ORLANDO—Once you decide to head off property to explore the Orlando area, check out some of the local GLBT businesses and clubs listed on the map pages 40-–41. GAY DAYS® PARKING—Free to Gay Days® hotel guests and only $5 per car for non-guests. Non-hotel guest need not fret , you’ll receive a $5 voucher good for food or non-alcoholic beverages at the hotel while you visit. Remember, BOOK EARLY for Gay Days® 2012. You can do it while you’re here! The Gay Days® Host Hotel Doubletree by Hilton Orlando at SeaWorld 10100 International Drive (main entrance is off Westwood Blvd.) Orlando, Florida 32821 407.352.1100 GAY DAYS® 2011 5 • WHAT • • WHERE • • WHEN • TUESDAY May 31, 2011 Gay Days® Kickoff Party Mr. Sisters (See Ad, Page 6) 5:30-9:30 pm Gay Days® – Lucky After Party with Mr. Sisters (See Ad, Page 6) 9:30 pm – 3 am Vernessa Mitchell WEDNESDAY June 1, 2011 Gay Days® Esurance Welcome & Doubletree Lobby 11 am – 6 pm Information Booth Gay Days® Afternoon Pool Party – 18+ Doubletree Center Pool Noon – 6 pm (See Ad, Page 8) Gay Days® Ticket and Doubletree Lobby 11 am – 6 pm Merchandise Center Gay Days® Evening Pool Party – 18+ Doubletree Center Pool 6 pm – 3 am (See Ad, Page 8) THURSDAY June 2, 2011 Gay Days® at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Disney World Regular Park Hours Gay Days® Roundup Doubletree Hotel Okeechobee Ballroom Daily Meetings (See Ad, Page 21) 4 pm – 11 pm Gay Days® Esurance Welcome & Doubletree Lobby 10 am – 9 pm Information Booth Gay Days® Ticket and Doubletree Lobby 11 am – 8 pm Merchandise Center Foreplay Pool Party – 18+ Doubletree Center Pool Noon – 6 pm Sponsored by Masque (See Ad, Page 17) Gay Days® Expo Doubletree Resort Ballrooms Noon – 8 pm Free Admission (See Page 14) Gay Days® Expo Auxiliary Hall Doubletree Resort Ballrooms Noon – 8 pm Free Admission Gay Days® 18+ Expo Doubletree Resort Ballrooms Noon – 10 pm Free Admission ORCO Health Department Bldg 2 - Suite 205 Noon – 6 pm Free HIV Rapid Testing, Hepatitis A & B Vaccines Gay Days® Outdoor Vendors Doubletree Center Pool Florida Patio - Tower, Noon – 10 pm Free Admission, Open to Public Girls at Gay Days® Outdoor Vendors Key Biscayne Pool Patio 5 pm – 10 pm Free Admission, Open to Public Taste of Gay Days® – Beers, Wines, Doubletree Great Lakes Ballroom 6 pm - 9 pm Spirits, and Food (See Ad, Page 23) Foreplay Pool Party – 18+ Doubletree Center Pool 6 pm – 3 am Girls at Gay Days® Women’s Key Biscayne Pool 8 pm-Midnight Welcome Party (See Ad, Page 24) Bears Welcome Reception Bangli Lounge, Meet n Greet – Cash Bar 9 pm Miss Gay Days Pageant Doubletree Great Lakes Ballroom 9:30 pm (See Ad, Page 19) Evolve Mr.