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Thursday, June 26, 1997
Gay publication plans day at Six Flags Over
Texas
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - The owner of a gay-oriented publication
will designate a gay-themed day at Six Flags over Texas, partly
as a protest against a Southern Baptist boycott of Walt Disney
Co.
Brian Mellott of The Texas Guardian said he organized "Two
Dads-Two Moms Gay Family Day Out at Six Flags" to call attention
to discrimination against homosexuals.
Mellott said the event also is meant to protest the Southern
Baptist Convention's decision last week to boycott Disney. The
resolution calls on Southern Baptists to withhold their patronage
of Disney and its subsidiaries in protest of "Gay Days"
at Disney theme parks and its offering of health benefits to homosexual
domestic partners.
"There are people who are afraid of gays," said Mellott,
who expects 10,000 gays and lesbians to attend the event with
their families.
"The biggest reason that people treat gays the way they
treat them is ignorance. They need to be educated that gays are
people just like everybody else."
Six Flags spokeswoman Nancy St. Pierre said the theme park,
which promotes itself as being family-oriented, is not sponsoring
the event.
Ms. St. Pierre said she didn't know whether the theme park
had declared Sept. 7 "Two Dads-Two Moms Gay Family Day Out
at Six Flags," but said the park has offered $8 discount
coupons on its $32 admission tickets to the group. Six Flags offers
the same discount to other groups larger than 20.
"We cannot deny access to anybody," she said.
Six Flags is owned by Six Flags Theme Parks Inc. in Parsippany,
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