Gaydays 2003 -
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This was my 3rd consecutive year. When
you’re invited back to be the event photographer by the biggest pool party promoters
it’s impossible to say no. Especially when you are given one of the best rooms in
the complex. It was slap-bang in the middle of the action. Open your curtains
in the morning, and in front of you was the best sight any gay boy could dream
of, a pool full of gay speedo-clad, muscle boys.
Six years
from the first Gayday, Jeffery
Sanker saw the potential and organised an official after party at Disney’s
MGM Studio’s, called One
Mighty Party. Now when a party promoter like Sanker, a Disney theme park
and the hot
Mark Baker pulled
out all the stops and seemed to take over the weekend from start to finish this
year. You’ve got to hand it to him; he did a fantastic job. He must have
invested a huge amount of money to get it all together, and seen a good profit
too. This year he had 6 parties to look over in 3 days and all were a massive
success, apart from the first night. 1,500 people (including us) were left
stranded outside of the venue. Tickets were over-sold and fire chiefs
threatened to shut it down if more people entered the building. Picture it…
spend $65 on your ticket, get dolled up in your best gear that you’ve bought
especially for the occasion, Taxi up the motorway for ¾ hour and get to the
gates to be told that the events been over sold, “no one else is being allowed
in”. It was a real blow with people getting fearfully angry outside. Some were
shouting, some almost in tears. The ticket oversell wasn’t really any one
person’s fault. The event has always been a sell out each year because it’s limited
to the buildings size, rather than an open-air theme park as other parties. The
problem came this year when someone came up with the idea of expanding the
party into the Hard Rock Café next door. Both venues hold a certain amount of
people but the café area part didn’t get very busy. This meant the main arena
was overcrowded, which lead to the fire hazard risk. Many people were blaming
Mark for being greedy with ticket sales but it wasn’t his fault. You can’t
oversell tickets, that side of things is computer controlled by the venue
owners-- Universal. It’s just unfortunate that both areas didn’t function as
organisers first thought they would. We tried bluffing our way in but didn’t
succeed. A couple of friends got in by telling door staff they were the gogo
boys and supposed to be onstage in 10 minutes. Damn, we should have thought of
that one!
The biggest party of the weekend was Mark Bakers Dino-Stars Party at one
of the Universal Studio’s theme parks. Last year it was the first one and was
massive. This year it returned and was
bigger than massive. It was one of the largest parties I think I’ve ever been
to, 1000’s of sweaty topless circuit boys, DJ Manny Lehman, and gigantic
three-dimensional Dinosaurs. What a spectacular finally to a truly magical weekend.
One quite big factor to the Gaydays weekend is where
to stay. There are many nominated hotels listed on the Gaydays.com web site. The
one I’d most recommend for the party boys is the Wyndham Palace Resort & Spa with-in the Disney World Resort.
It’s book able via GayDayEvents.com.
This is where the biggest pool party of the weekend takes place. If you stay at
the hotel you get free access to the pool parties.
If you ever get out to
Anyway pop Gaydays in your diary for
next year, remember it’s the first Saturday of June. For further info log onto
either of the following:
Special thanks to my sponsors and supporters of this
event:
QX Magazine, GayDayEvents.com, Mark Baker, Jeffery Sanker, Now UK Magazine, Deon Magazine, Manner
