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Contents:
- WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
- CEMA FORCED TO STOP FILM AS BIGOTS HURL HOMOPHOBIC ABE AT GAY UPLE
- ‘HALLOWEEN KILLS’: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FRANCHISE’S FIRST GAY CHARACTERS
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.
CEMA FORCED TO STOP FILM AS BIGOTS HURL HOMOPHOBIC ABE AT GAY UPLE
" 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 KILLS’: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FRANCHISE’S FIRST GAY CHARACTERS
" 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. The character sketch—of a sardonic gay uple havg their own Halloween party; a middle-aged Black uple amg themselv wh a drone; some folks out at a bar briefly clashg and then rencilg—are drawn wh Green’s love for the quirks of human behavr.