Gay Day has been cancelled.

LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG announced on Thursday that it had nixed the eight-year-old annual event at Canada’s Wonderland, after a park employee told a gay couple to stop hugging while they waited in line for the Lazy River last month.

A statement on the group’s Facebook page accused the amusement park’s management of being unwilling to “commit” to more robust sensitivity training for staff.

Bev Belanger, president of PFLAG Canada, said she couldn’t in clear conscience agree to continue Gay Day at the park without assurances of strong sensitivity training.

“I felt that if this could happen then the training wasn’t adequate or trickling down to staff,” she said in interview. “It was pretty disappointing.”

Park spokesperson Soulla Lindo did not respond to multiple requests for comment on Thursday. Earlier in the week, Lindo called the no-hugging request an “isolated incident,” and said discrimination is not tolerated at Canada’s Wonderland. She said all 4,000 park employees receive “human rights training,” but she did not answer questions on Thursday asking for more details.

Barrett Morrison told the Star this week that he went to the park with his partner Brandon Hamilton as part of this year’s PFLAG group for “Gay Day,” which was organized to coincide with Pride Month in Toronto this year. Morrison said he and Hamilton hugged, and then were approached by a park staffer. The employee told them to stop touching “because this is a family park,” Morrison said.

Canada’s Wonderland general manager Norm Pirtovshek has since apologized to Morrison and Hamilton.

“Discrimination is not tolerated here at the park, and our staff have undergone extensive training on this subject, which is why I’m surprised to hear about this incident,” Pirtovshek wrote in an June 21 email to the couple that Morrison provided to the Star. “This behaviour will not be accepted by any of our employees or guests.”

Belanger said that she emailed Pirtovshek that same day — June 21 — to ask for details on the park’s existing sensitivity training and offer further workshops by PFLAG staff. He never responded, Belanger said.

“We had been contemplating as we didn’t hear back from him. Our board discussed it and we came to a decision that if we didn’t hear back from him favourably we would not move forward with Gay Day,” she said.

“We can’t offer a safe space, so how can we continue?”