Queer Halloween Post

Filed Under Holidays | October 30th, 2009 

Hallowe’en 2009 Post — A collection of gay news articles, blog posts, and links to all sorts of Queer Halloween Strangeness.

Queer Halloween Post 2009Halloween History:

~ What’s With Jack-O-lanterns? (Video – at one of my sites)

~ A Royal Halloween Tale (Article – at one of my sites)

~ All-hallow Even (Early customs of Halloween – at one of my sites)

~ Halloween: the Great Gay Holiday (from Gay Wisdom)

~ John Lauritsen’s The Frankenstein Pages.

~ Halloween in the Castro 1990 — Queer Nation & The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence vs Prayer Warriors.

~ CBC Video Oct. 30, 1973: Drag queens on Halloween — Exuberant cross-dressers, gay-baiting hecklers and glamorous female impersonators: they’re all part of the scene at Toronto’s Club Manatee on Halloween night in the early 1970s.

Halloween News, Viewpoints, Opininion:

~ Child witches’ and LGBTQ youth by Rev. Irene Monroe.

~ Dressed to Kill — Doing drag once taught me I should never, ever do it again. (Feature Story at Metro Weekly magazine)

~ A Royal Outing — A family that dresses up together is silly, happy and queer together. (Feature Story at Metro Weekly magazine)

~ EBAR News in brief: No Official Castro Halloween street party this year

~ SFBG: Taking back Halloween in SF.

~ Dallas Voice: The really scary thing — Have the straights co-opted the gay Halloween celebration on Cedar Springs?

~ Atlanta Gay Pride 2009 and Halloween (via The Atlanta Lesbian Relationship Examiner)

Halloween Drinks: ~ I’ve got some Halloween Cocktail Recipes at my drinks site.