Why Halloween is ‘Gay Christmas’ to Many LGBTQ Amerins – NBC New York

Contents:

• WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
• HALLOWEEN IS THE GAYT HOLIDAY — AND EVERYONE IS FALLY CATCHG UP
• HALLOWEEN IS THE GAYT HOLIDAY - AND EVERYONE IS FALLY CATCHG UP
• HALLOWEEN IS AMERI’S GAY HOLIDAY
• HALLOWEEN, AKA GAY CHRISTMAS: A SPECIAL HOLIDAY FOR LGBTIQ+
• HALLOWEEN: GENR DECEIVERS’ FAVORE HOLIDAY (AMERI’S “GAY” HOLIDAY)
• IS HALLOWEEN A TRADNAL GAY HOLIDAY?
• WHY HALLOWEEN IS ‘GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
• WHY HALLOWEEN IS A.K.A. “GAY CHRISTMAS”
• HALLOWEEN AS A GAY HOLIDAY
• HOW HALLOWEEN BEME A GAY HOLIDAY
• HALLOWEEN: AMERI'S GAY HOLIDAY
• THE BT PLAC TO CELEBRATE GAY HALLOWEEN

WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS

"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.

HALLOWEEN IS THE GAYT HOLIDAY — AND EVERYONE IS FALLY CATCHG UP

" 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. I was dog my typil TikTok scroll one day, and the sound of Jsi Lange's famo voice sayg, "That's what gays do!

Even though Dty isn't known to speak tths about the "gays, " the latter part of her statement do rg te for a lot of people the LGBTQ+ muny. But, for a lot of queer people, there's fely some accuracy to the notn that "Halloween is for the gays.

HALLOWEEN IS THE GAYT HOLIDAY - AND EVERYONE IS FALLY CATCHG UP

In fact, 's known as "Gay Christmas" bee of how popular is for queer people. A holiday wh no nnectn to relign is very attractive; mak sense to dub Halloween "the great gay holiday, " as lbian poet and thor Judy Grahn once lled .

Halloween Drag Balls and queer Halloween bash make up more of the gay history surroundg Halloween, but that didn't always translate to the greater narrative, nor did ntribute much reprentatn of queer people horror movi. And of urse, clud l that had to do wh "sexual perversns, " which heavily applied to homosexualy on screen. Jt like a lot of movi and TV did, horror implemented the e of the "Bury Your Gays" trope whenever there was a queer character on screen.

HALLOWEEN IS AMERI’S GAY HOLIDAY

Sexualy was often a reason behd the aths and a major parallel to an outsi world that already vilified homosexualy. You've got your gay ins like The Babadook — whose "fiant" act of terrorizg an Atralian fay stuted him as a queer meme — or the homoerotic relatnship between Billy and Stu Scream. Then there's Ltat and Louis Interview Wh a Vampire, who not only uld be terpreted as gay if the viewer sired but also troduced a fay un ma up of two men and a child.

HALLOWEEN, AKA GAY CHRISTMAS: A SPECIAL HOLIDAY FOR LGBTIQ+

Wh the uple spendg 13 years together and Dani sacrificg herself for the betterment of others, she don't fall to the "Bury Your Gays" trope. When this holiday around, "the most wonrful time of year" tak on a whole new meang for the gays. In the words of lbian poet and scholar Judy Grahn, Halloween is “the great gay holiday.

Long before June officially beme Gay Pri Month and October beme Comg Out Month for the LGBTQ+ muny, Halloween was unofficially our yearly celebrated “holiday. By the 1980s, gay enclav such as Key Wt, Wt Hollywood and Greenwich Village held annual Halloween street parti.

HALLOWEEN: GENR DECEIVERS’ FAVORE HOLIDAY (AMERI’S “GAY” HOLIDAY)

Gay cultural fluence on Halloween has bee such an unstoppable phenomenon here and abroad that Universy of Florida anthropology profsor Jack Kugelmass scribed Halloween as an emergg gay “high holiday” his 1994 book Masked Culture: The Greenwich Village Halloween Para:. 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 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. But as Halloween flourished as a gay cultural phenomenon, so too grew a backlash by fundamentalist Christians wh their “Hell Ho. 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 the Hell Ho specifilly targeted youth:.

IS HALLOWEEN A TRADNAL GAY HOLIDAY?

Instead of spookg youth wh ghosts and monsters, Hell Hoe tour guis direct them through rooms where vlent scen of damnatn for a variety of “ss” are performed, cludg 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. Maybe someday soon, Halloween will be officially acknowledged as a gay holiday. EIKE SCHROTER/NETFLIX 2020I was dog my typil TikTok scroll one day, and the sound of Jsi Lange's famo voice sayg, "That's what gays do!

Halloween Drag Balls and queer Halloween bash make up more of the gay history surroundg Halloween, but that didn't always translate to the greater narrative, nor did ntribute much reprentatn of queer people horror quell perceived bchery, Hollywood began to enforce what was known as the Hays Co the 1930s. Related: Year In, Year Out: Celebratg LGBTQ+ History MonthJt like a lot of movi and TV did, horror implemented the e of the "Bury Your Gays" trope whenever there was a queer character on screen. You've got your gay ins like The Babadook - whose "fiant" act of terrorizg an Atralian fay stuted him as a queer meme - or the homoerotic relatnship between Billy and Stu Scream.

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 LGBTQ muny, Halloween was unofficially our yearly celebrated “holiday. By the 1980s, gay enclav like Key Wt, Wt Hollywood, and Greenwich Village held annual Halloween street parti.

WHY HALLOWEEN IS ‘GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS

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. “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.

Nicholas Rogers, thor of Halloween: From Pagan Rual to Party Night, pots out that while everyone enjoys Halloween, “ 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.

As Halloween flourished as a gay cultural phenomenon, so too grew a backlash by the fundamentalist Christians wh their “Hell Ho. In 2006 the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force (NGLTF) put out a report tled Homophobia at ‘Hell Hoe’: Lerally Demonizg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Youth, explag how the Hell Ho specifilly targeted youth. “Instead of spookg youth wh ghosts and monsters, Hell Hoe tour guis direct them through rooms where vlent scen of damnatn for a variety of’ ss’ are performed, cludg 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 stated.

WHY HALLOWEEN IS A.K.A. “GAY CHRISTMAS”

It reprents an important pot: the transn om Gay Christmas to Regular Christmas. This is for those who have ever stopped to wonr why ’s lled Gay Christmas.

HALLOWEEN AS A 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 LGBTQ muny, Halloween was our unofficial annual ‘holiday, ’ datg as far back at the 1970s when was a massive annual street party San Francis’s Castro district. By the 1980s, gay enclav like Key Wt, Wt Hollywood, and Greenwich Village were holdg their annual Halloween street parti.

Y, Ameri’s recent exaltatn of Halloween as a ftival send only to Christmas ow a lot to promotn by homosexuals and their new favore ras– genr-nfed mal and femal. This month Tony addrs the annual Halloween Celebratn and whether is a tradnal gay holiday.

BUT … when the street lights e on, and the kids go home, that is when the gays will e out and play their own tight-ftg, sk-showg, cross-drsg stum of their favore superhero, Disney characters, televisn personas, horror monsters, or somethg ma by their own two hands. Over time, the gay world, Halloween has bee an event that par to our morn-day Pri ftivals. “Gay” Halloween dat as far back as the 1970s when was a massive annual street party San Francis’s Castro district.

HOW HALLOWEEN BEME A GAY HOLIDAY

Of urse, while Halloween flourish amongst gays, the holiday also rri a backlash om Christians who still believe as the “Devil’s Holiday. The plac volved tours given by evangelil church to children across the untry, hirg actors to create ighteng plays to sre and bully them away om God’s adly ss, cludg homosexualy. As society chang, the gay muny ntu to take on a ltle more of the holiday.

HALLOWEEN: AMERI'S GAY HOLIDAY

And this weekend of lavish stumed theatrily will attract everyone, but pecially lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) revelers. Long before June officially beme Gay Pri Month, and October “Comg Out Month” for the LGBTQ muny, Halloween was unofficially our yearly celebrated “holiday, ” datg as far back at the 1970s when was a massive annual street party San Francis’s Castro district.

THE BT PLAC TO CELEBRATE GAY HALLOWEEN

And the paras the night of Halloween did and still do draw straights and gay spectators out to watch. Gay cultural fluence on Halloween has bee such an unstoppable phenomenon here and abroad that anthropologist Jerry Kugelmass of Universy of Florida published a book 1994 on the new trend, tled “Masked Culture, ” scribg Halloween as an emergg gay “high holiday.

“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’s an ial of personal emancipatn, self-exprsn and self-fulfillment — 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.