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Contents:
- WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
- GAY HALLOWEEN COSTUME GIFTS
- HOTON ANNUAL GAY EVENTS CALENDAR
WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
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"Merrie cherryAn extravaganza of the supernatural, all thgs sweet and larger-than-life stum, many LGBTQ Amerins like Roberts hail Halloween as "gay Christmas. " But the ntemporary excement around the supernatural holiday has a long history wh the LGBTQ morn phrase "gay Christmas" actually stems om an earlier queer nickname for the holiday, "bch Christmas, " acrdg to Marc Ste, a profsor of history at San Francis State Universy, and thor of "Cy of Sisterly and Brotherly Lov. "Durg the 1950s and '60s, Philalphia's LGBTQ muny celebrated "bch Christmas" by drsg up drag and partyg the cy's gay bars, Ste said.
"Followg the wave of LGBTQ activism and visibily sparked by the 1969 Stonewall rts, more formal versns of queer Halloween celebratns began poppg up "gayborhoods" around the untry. " As a gay man, he scribed Halloween as one of the only tim a year growg up when he was not "ostracized or punished or cricized for havg the flamboyant, creative tennci. As holidays go, Halloween is undoubtedly the gayt.
GAY HALLOWEEN COSTUME GIFTS
It's the one time of year where homos n pretend they're hetero, straight boys step out short skirts, and grown-ass women turn every rpectable profsn they n thk of to slutty versns of their former urse you n head to your lol stume shop and pick up a played-out, plastic-wrapped outf, but we know you better than that.
That's why we've piled this prehensive list of the most topil, hte, and hilar gay-iendly Halloween stum of 2012.
HOTON ANNUAL GAY EVENTS CALENDAR
From du-lov' superhero to one of hip-hop's groundbreakg gaybi, this year's hottt TV shows, news stori, and pop-culture juggernts are now the mt-wear, one-night disguis of the season. The X-Men's NorthstarOrigally a member of Alpha Flight, a fictnal team of Canadian superhumans the Marvel Comics universe, Northstar is now an openly gay member of the X-Men -- and, one n hope, the XXX-Men after dark.