Gay halloween san francisco

In 1981, when photographer Ken Werner wrote the last paragraph of the introduction to his book of photographs of the era’s uncontrolled, queer-centric Castro and Polk Street Halloween celebrations, he meant it as a civic warning—and a strident call to action.

Conservative “bluenoses”—originally spearheaded by Harvey Milk’s murderer Dan White, who whipped up anti-festivity sentiments among local merchants—were successfully quashing those debaucherous avenue parties, at which the local population, including the gay community, expressed its wildly artistic side, outside of recession-era straight-jacket afternoon jobs. Self-appointed monitors (many of them also gay) had begun policing the crowds, wearing t-shirts emblazoned with “There Ain’t NO Street Party.”

There is indeed no party when when thousands of people, many in elaborate costume, are crowded onto a small stretch of sidewalk. So if current policies continue, San Francisco’s maskers face certain disenchantment, and the now-legendary street celebrations will fade away, as they did for two decades [in the conformi

5 LGBTQ+ Halloween parties where you can celebrate the homo high holiday

There are cultural and historic reasons why Halloween is sometimes called “Gay Christmas.” Before Pride became a worldwide movement, October 31 was the one day of the year where LGBTQ2S+ people could dress up and be who they wanted to be with a greater sense of freedom and without anxiety. When everyone is wearing outrageous “anything goes” costumes, there’s more room for queerness.

Such opportunities are sometimes rare. In many jurisdictions around the world, there have been laws prohibiting wearing clothes not traditionally associated with your gender—think men in dresses and women in suits. Wearing the wrong clothes could get you thrown in jail, or worse.  

As composer Randy Shilts writes in The Mayor of Castro Street, his biography of assassinated member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk: “One evening a year, prefer a chapter from a Cinderella story, the police would bestow a free night on homosexuals. Halloween has been staked out years before as the homosexual high holidays; gays did, after all stay most of their lives behind masks.… For that one night, the police let homos

Halloween, Gay Elevated Holy Day

By Dr. Tim Seelig–

Today’s article comes out on October 31. It’s Halloween! Of course, this brought me to thinking about the holiday, how I observed it as a male child, how Clara (Tim’s granddaughter) celebrates it today and what everyone is doing to commemorate a holiday for which no one really knows the “Why?”

So, I went to the History Channel ( https://www.history.com/ ) to get an idea of the origins. Oh my. If you include time, go observe it up. I am not a historian, but there were some marvelous discoveries. I’ll summarize: Halloween is perhaps our oldest distributed holiday. It’s older than Christmas! Sorry, baby Jesus.

Halloween has a very crooked road and very mixed metaphors. It’s not unlike the confusion at the holidays surrounding Christmas: the manger and the North Pole fighting for superior billing. Or Easter with the cross, colored eggs, and bunnies. Yes, indeed, Halloween has lots of twists and turns: pagan and Christian.

Reading about it, I can watch that there is no wonder that evangelical folks execute not allow their children to rejoice Halloween. Growing up, our church held “Harvest Celebrations” at the church. No costumes. No candy. N

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Uncle Donald Records the Nostalgia of Halloween on Castro Street! Sometimes, paving the way was just plain fun!

My first Halloween trial in San Francisco was in 1970. It was a lot different then. Halloween was already a high holy day in gay circles, but was not celebrated quite as openly as it is today. Queens worked for weeks on their costumes and made every attempt to be the “Best of Show”. There was still a lot of police harassment in the 1970’s and wearing “drag” in public was sometimes used as grounds for arrest. So, Halloween was the only day of the year that it was “safe” for a man to go out in public wearing a dress, or at least this was the recognized “wisdom”.

There was no organized event for gays on Halloween, but many of the downtown and Polk Street Bars planned appropriate festivities, including costume contests. Drag Queens and their “male” escorts (usually in tuxedos) would rent Limousines and drive from block to bar showing off their elaborate creations. The custom grew in popularity and people would collect outside bars and survey the exotic parade of furs and rhinestones and feathers and glamou