The towel runs a generous 5 feet by 4 feet but to be honest, is a little on the thin side. The collection includes a pretty, but somewhat thin beach towel. Next up on the interesting item list is this Mickey Mouse rainbow beach towel. The Pride collection includes a standard size Loungefly backpack. The main body of the backpack is black, and it has a large rainbow heart in the front and Mickey ears at the top. It also has a pride label with the colletion logo at the bottom right. It's well made and runs, as all Loungefly bags of this size do, for $75.
One of the ever-popular Loungefly bags is part of the collection. These smallish backpacks and similar bags are all the rage with the teen (and adult) set. So now let's get to the merch! First up, we've seen an explosion of Loungefly bags all over the Disney empire in the last few years. These may seem like odd subjects for Pride merch, but these employees got creative and made some interesting and fun items. The Disney Pride Collection has everything from clothing, accessories and pins to plush and tumblers. It's broken down into four categories: Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars. For the first time, however, Disney has come out with a line of merchandise specifially designed to celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride, and even better, are donating all the profits to related charities.Īs per Disney, "The Disney Pride Collection was created by LGBTQIA+ employees and allies at The Walt Disney Company and is a reflection of their incredible contributions and place at the heart of the company". Unofficial "gay days" have taken place at Disney Parks for some time and Disney has produced "rainbow" collection merchandise for quite some time. Now Pride month happens each June as a celebration of this community. Since then, celebrations of Gay Pride (Pride as opposed to shame) have sprung up all over the world. The concept of "Pride" began in New York City back in June 1969, when the Stonewall Riots occurred. I'm oversimplifying, but Stonewall is where gay patrons at a local bar pushed back when being harrassed by police. This event is considered the birth of the modern LGBTQIA+ movement. On a semi-related note, however, Disney Parks have just come out with a brand new collection of merchandise that is designed to both bring a positive message and support a good cause. These MousePlanet pages are meant to be a safe space to share our mutual love of all things Disney, so I'm not going to get into the sordid political details. "I'm going to be concentrating in government so I can try and fix the same problems I'm trying to fix now," he said.There's been a lot in the news lately about Walt Disney World and the state of Florida.
Moricz said he plans on advocating for the LGBTQ+ community and is studying government at Harvard University in the fall. "That's horrifying because what you then have is so many children being forced to make the choice between coming out unsafely or not coming out at all." "What this law does is, it effectively takes away the only guaranteed safe space from the majority of the entire LGBTQ population here," he said. Moricz credits one of his teachers for helping him come out as a young teenager and said the law would prevent other young people from feeling safe and protected to do so. We saw that just yesterday, and it applies in many, many other circumstances." So what you get is what you saw with Zander and obviously applies to commencement.
The law itself was deliberately written to be as vague and as broad as possible. "Zander was censored and he shouldn't have had to censor himself and not be able to talk about who he really is at his commencement speech," Kaplan told "GMA." "This is just the tip of the iceberg.