Halloween is "the great gay holiday." And this weekend of lavish stumed theatrily will attract everyone, but pecially LGBT revelers.
Contents:
- HOTON ANNUAL GAY EVENTS CALENDAR
- 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
- GAY PRI CALENDAR
HOTON ANNUAL GAY EVENTS CALENDAR
New Orleans holds ftivals for Southern Dence, Mardi Gras, Pri Ft, Halloween and more, brgg everyone together: gay, lbian, bisexual transgenr and tersex. * lgbt halloween festival *
Altogether, ’s the perfect settg for the livelit of gay cultur.
The LGBTQ muny tak the spotlight at ftivals all year long, wh Southern Dence over Labor Day weekend attractg more than 125, 000 revelers to what’s e to be known as Gay Mardi Gras. Paras, stum, drag shows and themed parti abound durg Dence, then aga they’re a part of the cy’s Pri Ft, Mardi Gras, Halloween ftivi and even Easter, where the Gay Easter Para is one of three the French Quarter. The Sats and Sners Lerary Ftival tak a more studied approach, brgg the gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and tersex lerati together for three days of spired mgs.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, this took the form of “Hell Ho”, where nservative Christian mistri, terrified of the impact of Halloween on young mds, took children around guid trips of the cy, warng them of var ss, cludg the great sta of homosexualy. This Halloween at Manchter's Gay Nightclub we get. "They're g me to get ved to gay Halloween so they n meet hot girls!
'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
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Well, you don't have to wa to sre an ve to South Florida's gayt Halloween event, SAVE's Halloween Ball. Halloween is Ameri’s gay holiday. In the words of the lbian poet and scholar Judy Grahn, Halloween is “the great gay holiday.
Long before June officially beme Gay Pri Month, and October “Comg Out Month” for the LGBT muny, Halloween was unofficially our yearly celebrated holiday. By the 1980s, gay enclav like Key Wt, Wt Hollywood, and Greenwich Village were holdg their annual Halloween street parti.
And the paras the night of Halloween did, and still do, draw straights and gay spectators out to watch. Gay cultural fluence on Halloween is unstoppable. Gay cultural fluence on Halloween has bee such an unstoppable phenomenon here and abroad that anthropologist Jerry Kugelmass of the Universy of Florida published a book 1994 on the new trend, tled Masked Culture, scribg Halloween as an emergg gay “high holiday.
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“The ’masked culture’ first veloped by the gays of San Francis has reached across the l of orientatn — and now jumped across the boundari between natns and languag. It is an ial that los none of s power when tak the form of a sexy nurse’s outf, ” CNN ntributor David Fm wrote last year “Halloween craze started gay culture. Nicholas Rogers, thor of Halloween: From Pagan Rual to Party Night, pots out that while Halloween is enjoyed by everyone, “ has been the Gay muny that has most flamboyantly exploed Halloween’s potential as a transgrsive ftival, as one that operat outsi or on the margs of orthodox time, space, and hierarchy.
Ined, is the Gay muny that has been arguably most rponsible for Halloween’s adult rejuvenatn. As Halloween flourish as a gay cultural phenomenon, so too flourished a backlash by the fundamentalist Christians wh their “Hell Ho. Hell Ho were a ntemporary form of both anti-gay bullyg and wch-huntg.
And one of those ss is homosexualy. In 2006 the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force put out a report tled Homophobia at ’Hell Hoe’: Lerally Demonizg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Youth explag how hell ho specifilly targeted youth.
Denver has grown populary as a travel statn for LGBTQ visors. Fd out what the Denver gay scene has to offer & what LGBTQ events are happeng. * lgbt halloween festival *
The clud scen where a teenage lbian is brought to hell after mtg suici and a gay man dyg of AIDS is tnted by a mon who screams that the man will be separated om God forever hell, ” the NGLTF report stated. However, the msage that homosexuals are gog to hell n have a leter impact on our youth. But wh Halloween flourishg as a gay cultural phenomenon our children, too, n joyfully go door-to-door trick-or-treatg.
Patrick’s Day is an Irish holiday, maybe someday — soon — Halloween will be officially acknowledged as a gay holiday. “Florida is excement, ’s sunshe, happs, relaxatn … and all really hot-lookg people, ” said Carrie Wt, Print of the GaYBOR District Coaln Tampa’s Ybor Cy. Year-round, gay tourists om all over the world e to Florida to enjoy everythg om paras to film ftivals to roo events terg to the LGBTQ muny.
While the foc of this ftival is the dozens of documentari and short films chroniclg the liv of gay, lbian, bisexual and transsexual people, some e jt for the fancy soire. Gay Memorial Day Weekend, Pensala (late May). Gay Days Orlando (first weekend June).