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Contents:
- THE BT LGBT AND GAY HALLOWEEN EVENTS NYC
- WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
- A TALE OF TWO PARAS: HALLOWEEN AND GAY PRI
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- GAY MUNICH
THE BT LGBT AND GAY HALLOWEEN EVENTS NYC
Here are the bt LGBT and gay Halloween events NYC to celebrate the spookit holiday. Get your stume and head to the parti and hnted ho. * gay halloween parade *
There’s no shortage of LGBT and gay Halloween events NYC this time of year.
WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
* gay halloween parade *
Rivalg NYC’s Gay Pri Para enthiasm, stum and all around queerns is the annual Village Halloween Para down Sixth Avenue. "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.
A TALE OF TWO PARAS: HALLOWEEN AND GAY PRI
New Orleans holds ftivals for Southern Dence, Mardi Gras, Pri Ft, Halloween and more, brgg everyone together: gay, lbian, bisexual transgenr and tersex. * gay halloween parade *
"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.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
"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. " 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.
Cy's rnival started as a gay event wh 150 people.
GAY MUNICH
and wgs flood gay bars Chelsea, the Village, Wt. evolved om one gay eveng to an event swarmg wh. Gay bars are packed;.