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Contents:
- WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
- THE BT LGBT AND GAY HALLOWEEN EVENTS NYC
- SF GAY MEN'S CHOS 'HELLO YELLOW BRICK ROAD' 2023: SAN FRANCIS
WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
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Police were often openly homophobic while, the meantime, more and more young LGBT people were movg to the cy, seekg the opportuny to be themselv.
THE BT LGBT AND GAY HALLOWEEN EVENTS NYC
It “had been staked out years before as the homosexual high holiday, ” Shilts explas: “gays did, after all, live most of their liv behd masks.
”’ And for the rt of the eveng, at a time when was illegal even for gay people to “peaceably assemble, ” the San Francisns were ee to celebrate and roe a tremendo street party—until the clock stck midnight.
SF GAY MEN'S CHOS 'HELLO YELLOW BRICK ROAD' 2023: SAN FRANCIS
“When the hours shifted om October 31 to November 1, the iron fist of Lilly Law, ” the then-current gay slang for a policeman, “would fall aga. For the next six s, that night would be a highlight of San Francis’s gay lendars—until, 2007, when the Halloween party was ncelled by cy officials, due to overcrowdg and repeated cints of vlence. But homophob began g trouble, settg fire to gay-owned bs or lurkg at the edge of the crowd, wag to attack people they believed to be gay or lbian.