Valuetainment - February 18, 2026


“Disney’s ESG Retreat” - Gay Days PAUSED After Pride Sponsors VANISH


Episode Stats

Length

7 minutes

Words per Minute

191.75179

Word Count

1,508

Sentence Count

160

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

18


Summary

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Disney World Gay Days at Walt Disney World has been put on hold for 2026 because they can t find sponsors for the event. Gay Days would have been a 35-year anniversary meetup for Orlando Pride, a multi-day fan-organized event that usually transpires from June through September.

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00:00:00.000 Let's go to this next one.
00:00:01.420 Disney World Gay Days, pause for 2026.
00:00:05.500 Oh, no.
00:00:06.360 Pride event organization says they cannot find Pride sponsors.
00:00:11.600 I wonder why.
00:00:12.540 Okay, they can't find Pride sponsors, Vinny.
00:00:14.740 They're devastated.
00:00:15.580 Unbelievable.
00:00:15.900 That's horrible.
00:00:16.420 Okay, I'm going to pull this up.
00:00:17.780 Okay, which, by the way, how much of this do you think it's they can't find?
00:00:23.360 How much of it do you think is they can't find sponsors?
00:00:27.240 And how much of it do you think it's just we've got to go back to logic and common sense or else, right?
00:00:31.940 Let me read this to you.
00:00:32.880 A little of everything.
00:00:33.660 A long-running Pride Month event known as Gay Days at Disney World has been placed on pause for 2026
00:00:40.000 with event organizers citing a sponsorship loss and other logistic challenges.
00:00:43.920 After careful consideration, we have made a difficult decision to pause the Gay Days Orlando event launch for June 2026.
00:00:52.500 Gay Days events organizers announced on Sunday.
00:00:55.000 Changes to our host hotel agreement and a loss of key sponsorship support and broader challenges
00:01:00.420 currently implicating LGBTQIA and event nationwide made it impossible to deliver the experience our community deserves.
00:01:09.400 Organizer went on to insist in a Chagibiti-esque banalty.
00:01:14.700 Banalty?
00:01:15.380 Banalty?
00:01:15.820 This is a pause, not an ending.
00:01:19.840 Expressing hope for future return to the park for more than 30 years.
00:01:22.860 Gay Days has been built by and for our community.
00:01:26.360 They said our focus now is on remaining the future and returning with a stronger, more measurable event.
00:01:33.420 We will share updates in the coming, et cetera, et cetera.
00:01:35.580 So, Tom, Gay Days would be have been a 35-year anniversary meetup for Orlando,
00:01:40.680 a multi-day fan organized event that usually transpires from June.
00:01:43.960 Why do you think this stopped, Tom?
00:01:45.360 So, a couple things are going on here.
00:01:47.180 First of all, this event organizer is the one that puts it on at Disney World, in Orlando, at all of the properties there.
00:01:59.020 So, this organizer has been doing it.
00:02:01.060 And this was, it kept a little bit of light between Disney and the actual Gay Days.
00:02:06.560 It was organized by somebody else.
00:02:08.300 But Disney refused to fund it.
00:02:10.900 And Disney said, hey, well, look, if you can't find sponsors, we're not going to do it either.
00:02:14.800 Wait, we've been here 30, 35 years.
00:02:17.320 Disney said no.
00:02:18.660 They said, well, you've got to find the people to fund it.
00:02:20.900 So, Disney backed off.
00:02:22.160 This is corporate ESG retreat in real time.
00:02:26.900 Real time.
00:02:27.680 So, if the organizers can't find sponsors, that also says some of the companies are feeling a little bit of backlash on LBGTQIA+.
00:02:38.180 And, you know, ESG, corporate sponsors are pulling back on this.
00:02:44.460 And there was consumer backlash that was at Disneyland.
00:02:47.760 And so, guess what?
00:02:48.960 I call this go woke, go broke.
00:02:51.380 It's not a slogan of the right.
00:02:52.820 It is a market reality that they're seeing right here.
00:02:56.280 And more brands are backing away from Pride Month as a whole while supporting their gay and lesbian employees.
00:03:05.480 And that's what is happening.
00:03:07.920 And Disney now doesn't want to fund it and didn't want to be part of it.
00:03:12.640 And they said, gee, I'm sorry.
00:03:13.340 If you can't get your sponsors, gosh, that's not my fault.
00:03:15.760 We won't do it.
00:03:16.360 Yeah, I wonder how much of that is that and how much of it is just, you know, we're not interested right now.
00:03:24.280 I don't know what the conversations were behind closed doors.
00:03:26.720 The reality of it is that the part that, for me, it's a little bit disturbing isn't about you having your gay crews or gay clubs or gay anything.
00:03:37.100 The only thing that, to me, makes me uncomfortable is when kids are involved.
00:03:40.600 The only thing.
00:03:41.560 I don't care what you do with any of that stuff.
00:03:43.820 What your preference is, you come to me and you tell me you like this, you like men, you like women.
00:03:48.660 No problem.
00:03:49.240 As an adult, go for it.
00:03:50.800 Don't go around kids and talk to kids about it.
00:03:53.520 Have you ever tried it?
00:03:54.880 Yeah.
00:03:55.260 No, Vinny.
00:03:55.900 Then how do you know, Vinny?
00:03:57.520 How do you know?
00:03:58.460 And, Pat, were we there at one of the, like, I...
00:04:00.400 We were there at one of the events.
00:04:01.740 And, again, you're right.
00:04:03.420 Do whatever you want.
00:04:04.080 What do you mean you guys were there?
00:04:05.220 Qualify what that means.
00:04:06.240 You were there with the...
00:04:07.060 What?
00:04:07.780 We weren't there for the gay days.
00:04:08.980 We just...
00:04:09.260 Dylan is like...
00:04:10.600 Oh, you just so happened to go on gay days, Vincent.
00:04:12.940 With the family, and we're there.
00:04:14.500 And I'm like, I saw a couple of guys making out, and one guy's shorts were short shorts.
00:04:21.140 Like, they were...
00:04:22.360 It's not appropriate for kids.
00:04:23.200 Yeah, just kids were there.
00:04:24.180 It's not appropriate for kids.
00:04:25.080 But it's like this, though.
00:04:26.220 If we're all equal, and we're all...
00:04:27.560 Why do you need a day to be there?
00:04:29.180 Just be gay and just go to Disneyland.
00:04:31.760 Why does it have to be this freaking grand old event?
00:04:34.060 With all the events that they already have, 140, what?
00:04:36.600 40 days of recognition day.
00:04:39.440 This is gay day.
00:04:40.220 This is gay shoe day.
00:04:41.560 It's like, just be gay and just go to...
00:04:44.020 Why does it have to be such an event?
00:04:46.220 It's indoctrination.
00:04:47.160 And I agree with Pat.
00:04:48.540 Indoctrination, I don't want anywhere near my kids or anybody else's kids.
00:04:52.420 I don't.
00:04:52.820 Let me do one last thing.
00:04:54.220 You got thoughts on this?
00:04:55.160 Yeah, sure.
00:04:55.740 By the way, what's the reason they canceled gay days?
00:04:59.860 It's a few different factors.
00:05:02.040 Number one, first and foremost, Trump.
00:05:05.240 If Trump didn't get elected and Kamala was there,
00:05:07.900 do you think they're canceling gay day?
00:05:09.220 Nope.
00:05:09.860 It's going to be the gayest day ever, gayest month ever.
00:05:11.980 You know that.
00:05:13.000 So go woke, go broke, Tom said it.
00:05:15.800 You can't find sponsors to fund this operation.
00:05:18.320 Then you're not going to have the money for it.
00:05:20.040 But Pat, you've said this a million times.
00:05:22.540 I'll just repeat it.
00:05:23.800 They're going back to who's their customer.
00:05:26.420 Their customer is the family.
00:05:27.700 So when does school get out every year in June?
00:05:32.140 When is it summer in hot as hell in Florida?
00:05:37.860 So right when school gets out, you're going to have gay days when it's hot, sweaty, disgusting summer.
00:05:43.840 Kids are out of school, so the parents want to take their kids on summer vacation.
00:05:48.400 You're doing it like during gay days.
00:05:50.900 Doesn't make any sense.
00:05:51.960 If you're going to do the gay day thing again and Vinny shows up, we all go in there and hang with him.
00:05:55.860 You do it the week after school starts.
00:06:00.020 No kids there.
00:06:01.240 Go frolic.
00:06:02.240 Be gay.
00:06:02.860 Wear a unicorn outfit.
00:06:04.280 Wear your short shorts.
00:06:05.160 Wear your booty shorts.
00:06:05.920 All good.
00:06:07.040 Stay away from the kids.
00:06:08.520 Disney, remember who your core customer is as family.
00:06:12.360 And then be as gay as you want.
00:06:13.280 Yeah, I'm with it.
00:06:14.340 Okay.
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00:06:26.760 Someone officially crossed 5,000 Menecks.
00:06:28.640 The fastest in the history of Menecks.
00:06:31.040 Even faster than me.
00:06:32.120 She crushes it on Menecks.
00:06:33.740 She keeps winning the super heavyweight champion of Menecks on a monthly basis.
00:06:38.140 Shout out to Lindy Lee.
00:06:39.420 Lindy.
00:06:39.680 She just crossed 5,000.
00:06:41.060 That's crazy.
00:06:41.540 Two weeks ago, and she's already at 5,514 Menecks that she's done.
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00:06:53.200 ask Lindy about the room she's been in with Hillary, Kamala, all these other guys,
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00:06:59.680 Congratulations, Lindy.
00:07:00.500 You officially get the first.
00:07:01.740 Now the next one is the black one, which I just crossed 10,000 Menecks myself.
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00:07:14.040 Also, you know who quietly just passed Menecks yesterday at 5,000?
00:07:17.560 A guy named Adam Sosting just also passed 5,000.
00:07:19.200 Oh, there we go.
00:07:21.420 But yours will come in.
00:07:22.520 He just crossed 5,000 Menecks.
00:07:23.800 I sent it to you yesterday.
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00:07:38.940 Kasperi and Emily, Austin, Cuomo, a bunch of these guys responding to Menecks.
00:07:42.880 But Lindy is officially at 5,000 plus Menecks.
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