A llectn of six books featurg queer ghost stori and huantgs, picked om Gay Cy's library to celebrate Halloween.
Contents:
- 5 REAL-LIFE QUEER GHOST STORI PERFECT FOR HALLOWEENGET YOUR SPOOK ON, GIRL!{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY SAM MANZELLAOCTOBER 31, 2018/12:58 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3439PX;WIDTH:3438PX;}BETTMAN/GETTY IMAGLIBERACE SPOOFS A DAY HIS OWN LIFE DURG A TELEVISN SPECIAL, CLUDG A SCENE WHERE HE BATHS HIS $55,000 MARBLE BATHTUB.BY SAM MANZELLAOCTOBER 31, 2018 / 12:58 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"5 REAL-LIFE QUEER GHOST STORI PERFECT FOR HALLOWEEN","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-10-31T16:58:31.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-10-31T16:58:31.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"SAM MANZELLA","KEYWORDS":"BOOKS","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT BETTER WAY TO RG HALLOWEEN WEEK THAN A GAY GHOST STORY? READ ON FOR FIVE AMAZG (AND TOTALLY TE!) TAL OF PARANORMAL ENUNTERS WH LGBTQ APPARNS AND SPIRS, SOURCED OM QUEER HNTGS: TE TAL OF GAY AND LBIAN GHOSTS BY KEN SUMMERS.LETHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KEN SUMMERS, THOR OF QUEER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE AFTERLIFE OF HARVEY MILKBETTMAN/GETTY IMAGHARVEY MILK, A HOMOSEXUAL, WAS RECENTLY ELECTED TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HERE. THE NATN'S MOST NCENTRATED GAY MUNY HAS VELOPED FANCIAL AS WELL AS POLIL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HARVEY MILK, THE OUT-AND-PROUD CIVIL RIGHTS PNEER WHO BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL CALIFORNIA, IS A LEGEND SAN FRANCIS. TURNS OUT, SOME FOLKS THE CASTRO DISTRICT, WHERE MILK LIVED AND SERVED AS A CY SUPERVISOR, BELIEVE HIS SPIR STILL HABS THOSE STREETS: NICK ROMERO, OWNER OF GIVEN, A STOREONT WHAT WAS MILK'S OLD MERA SHOP, CLAIMS HE'S FELT MILK'S PRENCE THE BUILDG. (IN 2011, THAT LOTN BEME AN HRC SHOP.) AND WHILE G VAN SANT, DIRECTOR OF THE 2008 MILK BPIC, WAS FILMG AT THE LOTN, AN UNKNOWN MAN WHO LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE MILK REPORTEDLY WALKED ON SET AND SAT DOWN ON A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ACTORS WERE "EXCED" ABOUT THE MAN AND ULDN'T WA FOR VAN SANT TO SEE HIM—BUT THE MILK LOOKALIKE PURPORTEDLY VANISHED BEFORE THE DIRECTOR EVEN REGISTERED HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE OTHER LIZZIE BORN HOECOURTY FALL RIVER (MASS.) HISTORIL SOCIETY VIA LETHE PRSSH13F234LIZZIEBORDENFATHER JUNE 28, 2013 -- RINCE OF ANDREW JACKSON BORN, 92 SEND ST., FALL RIVER, MASS., 1892. (SHNS PHOTO URTY FALL RIVER (MASS.) HISTORIL SOCIETY) (NEWS TAGID: ) [PHOTO VIA NEWS]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIZBETH "LIZZIE" BORN, A WOMAN OM VICTORIAN-ERA MASSACHETTS, WAS FAMOLY TRIED AND ACQUTED FOR THE GOME MURR OF HER OWN FATHER AND STEPMOTHER. HER STORY EVEN SPIRG A FILM THAT BUTED THIS YEAR, STARRG CHLOë SEVIGNY AS BORN AND KRISTEN STEWART AS HER MORED LOVER, HOEKEEPER BRIDGET {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT WHAT TRANSPIRED AFTER BORN'S ACQUTAL IS JT AS TRIGUG. DPERATE TO PE THE UNFORTUNATE NAME-LLG AND MORS THAT FOLLOWED THE ACCATNS, BORN MOVED TO MAPLECROFT, A NEARBY PROPERTY, WH HER SISTER, EMMA. (SHE WAS ALSO MORED TO HAVE SPARKED UP A LOVE AFFAIR WH ANOTHER WOMAN, ACTRS NANCE O'NEILL, WHO LATER SRNED HER BY ENDG THEIR "PANNSHIP.") DES DOWN THE LE, MULTIPLE ACUNTS OF PARANORMAL ACTIVY AT MAPLECROFT HAVE BEEN REPORTED, CLUDG SIGHTGS OF BORN'S APPARN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIBERACE LIV ONBETTMAN/GETTY IMAGLIBERACE SPOOFS A DAY HIS OWN LIFE DURG A TELEVISN SPECIAL, CLUDG A SCENE WHERE HE BATHS HIS $55,000 MARBLE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE GHOST OF FAMED FLAMBOYANT PIANIST LIBERACE IS SAID TO HNT CARLUCC'S TIVOLI GARNS, THE RTRANT THAT ONCE WAS LIBERACE'S TIVOLI GARNS (AND IS LOTED NEXT TO THE NOW-SHUTTERED LIBERACE MM LAS VEGAS). THE CARLUCC FAY PURCHASED THE PROPERTY AFTER LIBERACE'S TRAGIC ATH OM AIDS-RELATED ILLNS 1987. DES LATER, LIBERACE, WHO PROFSED TO HAVE A SOMEWHAT SPIRUAL NNECTN TO HIS MIL ABILI, HAS APPEARED AS AN APPARN TO WASTAFF AT THE RTRANT. HIS GHOST IS SAID TO HAVE ED MYSTER HAPPENSTANC, CLUDG FLHG TOILETS, LOCKG DOORS, AND WHISPERG PEOPLE'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON ONE MEMORABLE FEBARY 4, LIBERACE'S ATH DAY, THE SPIR REPORTEDLY ED THE POWER TO ABPTLY FAIL. STAFF, WHO RRECTLY BELIEVED WAS HIS BIRTHDAY, HUDDLED TOGETHER TO SG THE SUPERSTAR "HAPPY BIRTHDAY." SENDS AFTER THE FAL REA, THE LIGHTS AT CARLUCC'S FLICKERED BACK TO LIFE. SADLY, CARLUCC'S HAS SCE CLOSED AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WANRG WH WALT WHMANLIBRARY OF CONGRS/CORBIS/VCG VIA GETTY IMAGA PORTRA OF WALT WHMAN (1819-1892), TAKEN THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE. WHMAN'S DISTCTIVE, ANK POETRY MET WH MISUNRSTANDG AND ADVERSE CRICISM FOR MANY YEARS, BUT BY THIS TIME HIS VOLUME LEAV OF GRASS (ORIGALLY PUBLISHED 1855) HAD GAED AN APPRECIATIVE DIENCE. HIS LAST YEARS WERE PLAGUED BY POOR HEALTH, AND HE WROTE LTLE AFTER A STROKE 1873. (PHOTO BY LIBRARY OF CONGRS/CORBIS/VCG VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AMERIN WRER AND POET WALT WHMAN, LONG NSIRED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST FLUENTIAL LERARY VOIC OF THE 19TH CENTURY, LIVED BROOKLYN, NEW JERSEY, AND LONG ISLAND THROUGHOUT THE URSE OF HIS LIFE. HE STCK UP MULTIPLE ROMANC WH OTHER MEN, LIKE IRISH STAGEACH DRIVER FRED VGHAM, WHO WAS THE SUBJECT OF SOME POEMS OM WHMAN'S MAGNUM OP, LEAV OF GRASS. WHMAN ALSO SUFFERED VASTATG PERSONAL TRAGEDI, CLUDG UNREQUED LOVE AND THE LOSS OF TWO OF HIS BROTHERS. BEFORE HIS ATH 1892, HE ASKED THAT HIS TOMB BE LEFT UNSEALED SO THAT HIS SPIR "ULD ROAM EE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND ROAM, HAS: MULTIPLE SIGHTGS OF WHMAN'S APPARN HAVE BEEN REPORTED THE WT HILLS OF LONG ISLAND, WHERE WHMAN WAS BORN AND SPENT THE FIRST FEW YEARS OF HIS LIFE. THE HILLS SPIRED MANY OF HIS POEMS, AND 'S SAID THAT WHMAN'S GHOST N OCSNALLY BE SEEN WANRG THE HIGHLANDS, LOOKG THROUGH THE WOODS TOWARD FIRE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE "PSYCHIC PIANIST" OF SAN DIEGOLETHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VILLA MONTEZUMA, A QUEEN ANNE-STYLE HOME SAN DIEGO, IS THE REPORTED RINCE OF A QUASI-FAMO SPIR: THE GHOST OF JSE SHEPARD, A GLOBE-TROTTG GAY WRER AND "PSYCHIC PIANIST" WHO WAS BELIEVED TO CHANNEL THE SPIRS OF FAMO POSERS DURG HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AFTER SETTLG TO VILLA MONTEZUMA, WHERE HE LIVED FOR JT TWO YEARS AFTER WAS RATED TO HIS OSTENTAT SPECIFITNS, SHEPARD PUBLISHED HIS FIRST SAY UNR THE PEN NAME FRANCIS GRIERSON. HE WENT ON TO BE KNOWN BY THIS ALIAS UNTIL HIS ATH 1927, IMMEDIATELY AFTER PLAYG A PIANO PERFORMANCE TO RAISE FUNDS FOR HIMSELF AND HIS LONGTIME PARTNER, LAWRENCE WALMAR TONNER, WHO WERE DOWN ON THEIR LUCK LOS ANGEL. GRIERSON'S GHOST AND AN APPARN OF HIS FORMER BUTLER ARE BOTH SAID TO HNT THE VILLA, KNOWN LOLLY AS "THE SPOOK HOE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- BT GAY PARANORMALS
- GAY GHOSTS: QUEERG STORI OF SPIRS & DIRE
- GAYGHOST STORI
5 REAL-LIFE QUEER GHOST STORI PERFECT FOR HALLOWEENGET YOUR SPOOK ON, GIRL!{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY SAM MANZELLAOCTOBER 31, 2018/12:58 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3439PX;WIDTH:3438PX;}BETTMAN/GETTY IMAGLIBERACE SPOOFS A DAY HIS OWN LIFE DURG A TELEVISN SPECIAL, CLUDG A SCENE WHERE HE BATHS HIS $55,000 MARBLE BATHTUB.BY SAM MANZELLAOCTOBER 31, 2018 / 12:58 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"5 REAL-LIFE QUEER GHOST STORI PERFECT FOR HALLOWEEN","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-10-31T16:58:31.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-10-31T16:58:31.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"SAM MANZELLA","KEYWORDS":"BOOKS","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT BETTER WAY TO RG HALLOWEEN WEEK THAN A GAY GHOST STORY? READ ON FOR FIVE AMAZG (AND TOTALLY TE!) TAL OF PARANORMAL ENUNTERS WH LGBTQ APPARNS AND SPIRS, SOURCED OM QUEER HNTGS: TE TAL OF GAY AND LBIAN GHOSTS BY KEN SUMMERS.LETHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KEN SUMMERS, THOR OF QUEER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE AFTERLIFE OF HARVEY MILKBETTMAN/GETTY IMAGHARVEY MILK, A HOMOSEXUAL, WAS RECENTLY ELECTED TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HERE. THE NATN'S MOST NCENTRATED GAY MUNY HAS VELOPED FANCIAL AS WELL AS POLIL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HARVEY MILK, THE OUT-AND-PROUD CIVIL RIGHTS PNEER WHO BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL CALIFORNIA, IS A LEGEND SAN FRANCIS. TURNS OUT, SOME FOLKS THE CASTRO DISTRICT, WHERE MILK LIVED AND SERVED AS A CY SUPERVISOR, BELIEVE HIS SPIR STILL HABS THOSE STREETS: NICK ROMERO, OWNER OF GIVEN, A STOREONT WHAT WAS MILK'S OLD MERA SHOP, CLAIMS HE'S FELT MILK'S PRENCE THE BUILDG. (IN 2011, THAT LOTN BEME AN HRC SHOP.) AND WHILE G VAN SANT, DIRECTOR OF THE 2008 MILK BPIC, WAS FILMG AT THE LOTN, AN UNKNOWN MAN WHO LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE MILK REPORTEDLY WALKED ON SET AND SAT DOWN ON A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ACTORS WERE "EXCED" ABOUT THE MAN AND ULDN'T WA FOR VAN SANT TO SEE HIM—BUT THE MILK LOOKALIKE PURPORTEDLY VANISHED BEFORE THE DIRECTOR EVEN REGISTERED HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE OTHER LIZZIE BORN HOECOURTY FALL RIVER (MASS.) HISTORIL SOCIETY VIA LETHE PRSSH13F234LIZZIEBORDENFATHER JUNE 28, 2013 -- RINCE OF ANDREW JACKSON BORN, 92 SEND ST., FALL RIVER, MASS., 1892. (SHNS PHOTO URTY FALL RIVER (MASS.) HISTORIL SOCIETY) (NEWS TAGID: ) [PHOTO VIA NEWS]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIZBETH "LIZZIE" BORN, A WOMAN OM VICTORIAN-ERA MASSACHETTS, WAS FAMOLY TRIED AND ACQUTED FOR THE GOME MURR OF HER OWN FATHER AND STEPMOTHER. HER STORY EVEN SPIRG A FILM THAT BUTED THIS YEAR, STARRG CHLOë SEVIGNY AS BORN AND KRISTEN STEWART AS HER MORED LOVER, HOEKEEPER BRIDGET {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT WHAT TRANSPIRED AFTER BORN'S ACQUTAL IS JT AS TRIGUG. DPERATE TO PE THE UNFORTUNATE NAME-LLG AND MORS THAT FOLLOWED THE ACCATNS, BORN MOVED TO MAPLECROFT, A NEARBY PROPERTY, WH HER SISTER, EMMA. (SHE WAS ALSO MORED TO HAVE SPARKED UP A LOVE AFFAIR WH ANOTHER WOMAN, ACTRS NANCE O'NEILL, WHO LATER SRNED HER BY ENDG THEIR "PANNSHIP.") DES DOWN THE LE, MULTIPLE ACUNTS OF PARANORMAL ACTIVY AT MAPLECROFT HAVE BEEN REPORTED, CLUDG SIGHTGS OF BORN'S APPARN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIBERACE LIV ONBETTMAN/GETTY IMAGLIBERACE SPOOFS A DAY HIS OWN LIFE DURG A TELEVISN SPECIAL, CLUDG A SCENE WHERE HE BATHS HIS $55,000 MARBLE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE GHOST OF FAMED FLAMBOYANT PIANIST LIBERACE IS SAID TO HNT CARLUCC'S TIVOLI GARNS, THE RTRANT THAT ONCE WAS LIBERACE'S TIVOLI GARNS (AND IS LOTED NEXT TO THE NOW-SHUTTERED LIBERACE MM LAS VEGAS). THE CARLUCC FAY PURCHASED THE PROPERTY AFTER LIBERACE'S TRAGIC ATH OM AIDS-RELATED ILLNS 1987. DES LATER, LIBERACE, WHO PROFSED TO HAVE A SOMEWHAT SPIRUAL NNECTN TO HIS MIL ABILI, HAS APPEARED AS AN APPARN TO WASTAFF AT THE RTRANT. HIS GHOST IS SAID TO HAVE ED MYSTER HAPPENSTANC, CLUDG FLHG TOILETS, LOCKG DOORS, AND WHISPERG PEOPLE'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON ONE MEMORABLE FEBARY 4, LIBERACE'S ATH DAY, THE SPIR REPORTEDLY ED THE POWER TO ABPTLY FAIL. STAFF, WHO RRECTLY BELIEVED WAS HIS BIRTHDAY, HUDDLED TOGETHER TO SG THE SUPERSTAR "HAPPY BIRTHDAY." SENDS AFTER THE FAL REA, THE LIGHTS AT CARLUCC'S FLICKERED BACK TO LIFE. SADLY, CARLUCC'S HAS SCE CLOSED AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WANRG WH WALT WHMANLIBRARY OF CONGRS/CORBIS/VCG VIA GETTY IMAGA PORTRA OF WALT WHMAN (1819-1892), TAKEN THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE. WHMAN'S DISTCTIVE, ANK POETRY MET WH MISUNRSTANDG AND ADVERSE CRICISM FOR MANY YEARS, BUT BY THIS TIME HIS VOLUME LEAV OF GRASS (ORIGALLY PUBLISHED 1855) HAD GAED AN APPRECIATIVE DIENCE. HIS LAST YEARS WERE PLAGUED BY POOR HEALTH, AND HE WROTE LTLE AFTER A STROKE 1873. (PHOTO BY LIBRARY OF CONGRS/CORBIS/VCG VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AMERIN WRER AND POET WALT WHMAN, LONG NSIRED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST FLUENTIAL LERARY VOIC OF THE 19TH CENTURY, LIVED BROOKLYN, NEW JERSEY, AND LONG ISLAND THROUGHOUT THE URSE OF HIS LIFE. HE STCK UP MULTIPLE ROMANC WH OTHER MEN, LIKE IRISH STAGEACH DRIVER FRED VGHAM, WHO WAS THE SUBJECT OF SOME POEMS OM WHMAN'S MAGNUM OP, LEAV OF GRASS. WHMAN ALSO SUFFERED VASTATG PERSONAL TRAGEDI, CLUDG UNREQUED LOVE AND THE LOSS OF TWO OF HIS BROTHERS. BEFORE HIS ATH 1892, HE ASKED THAT HIS TOMB BE LEFT UNSEALED SO THAT HIS SPIR "ULD ROAM EE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND ROAM, HAS: MULTIPLE SIGHTGS OF WHMAN'S APPARN HAVE BEEN REPORTED THE WT HILLS OF LONG ISLAND, WHERE WHMAN WAS BORN AND SPENT THE FIRST FEW YEARS OF HIS LIFE. THE HILLS SPIRED MANY OF HIS POEMS, AND 'S SAID THAT WHMAN'S GHOST N OCSNALLY BE SEEN WANRG THE HIGHLANDS, LOOKG THROUGH THE WOODS TOWARD FIRE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE "PSYCHIC PIANIST" OF SAN DIEGOLETHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VILLA MONTEZUMA, A QUEEN ANNE-STYLE HOME SAN DIEGO, IS THE REPORTED RINCE OF A QUASI-FAMO SPIR: THE GHOST OF JSE SHEPARD, A GLOBE-TROTTG GAY WRER AND "PSYCHIC PIANIST" WHO WAS BELIEVED TO CHANNEL THE SPIRS OF FAMO POSERS DURG HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AFTER SETTLG TO VILLA MONTEZUMA, WHERE HE LIVED FOR JT TWO YEARS AFTER WAS RATED TO HIS OSTENTAT SPECIFITNS, SHEPARD PUBLISHED HIS FIRST SAY UNR THE PEN NAME FRANCIS GRIERSON. HE WENT ON TO BE KNOWN BY THIS ALIAS UNTIL HIS ATH 1927, IMMEDIATELY AFTER PLAYG A PIANO PERFORMANCE TO RAISE FUNDS FOR HIMSELF AND HIS LONGTIME PARTNER, LAWRENCE WALMAR TONNER, WHO WERE DOWN ON THEIR LUCK LOS ANGEL. GRIERSON'S GHOST AND AN APPARN OF HIS FORMER BUTLER ARE BOTH SAID TO HNT THE VILLA, KNOWN LOLLY AS "THE SPOOK HOE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
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What better way to rg Halloween week than a gay ghost story?
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Queer ghosts - spirs and spectr are explored this area of queer horror. Have a gay ghost? Has your lbian lover returned to hnt you? Interted and want to read books on the subject, here's the place. * gay ghost stories *
The hills spired many of his poems, and 's said that Whman's ghost n ocsnally be seen wanrg the highlands, lookg through the woods toward Fire "Psychic Pianist" of San DiegoVilla Montezuma, a Queen Anne-style home San Diego, is the reported rince of a quasi-famo spir: the ghost of Jse Shepard, a globe-trottg gay wrer and "psychic pianist" who was believed to channel the spirs of famo posers durg his settlg to Villa Montezuma, where he lived for jt two years after was rated to his ostentat specifitns, Shepard published his first say unr the pen name Francis Grierson. I grew up unr the Sectn 28 law the Uned Kgdom, which forba tnal settgs om “promotg homosexualy” or promotg “the teachg... Of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship.
” And, last June, Kristen Stewart—whose journey om beg Robert Pattson’s reticent girliend durg her “Twilight” years to announcg, “I’m, like, so gay, du! ” has been a source of great light to me—released a stg ll for her new venture, “the most gayt, most funnt, most tillatg queer ghost-huntg show ever.
GAY GHOSTS: QUEERG STORI OF SPIRS & DIRE
In Nigeria, where homosexualy remas illegal, Osun’s queer characters live fully, often jubilantly, but also, by necsy, secretively: “We’re ghosts bee we have to be, ” a queer character imag sayg, “bee our liv pend on passg and beg passed by. Around gay marriage and gay parentg not changed.
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I am hugely ashamed of this, when I thk of the urage of the many, many queer people who live thentilly societi stcturally and enthiastilly hostile to own steppg out of the shadows followed a seri of legal chang England and Wal: the end of Sectn 28 2003, and laws g to effect that ma legal for gay people to adopt children, 2005, and, fally, to marry, 2014. Homophobic beliefs rema fervently held by powerful people, and a younger generatn of queer people may fd that they are forced to feel like ghosts aga—although, culturally if not legally, I spect that the ti nnot be turned back.