Tag Archives: Halloween

Halloweiner

According to Halloween superstore Ricky’s, this year’s best-selling costume may be Anthony Weiner.

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Halloween Is Satan’s Night

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Parents Of Cross-Dressing Children Appear On The Today Show

A blog post written by a mother about her son dressing in drag for Halloween has spawned a national discussion about gender identity in children.

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Mom Of The Year

In a blogpost titled My Son Is Gay, a mom talks about letting her five year-old boy dress in drag for Halloween. You should read the entire beautiful story for background and context. An excerpt: So a few weeks before Halloween, Boo decides he wants to be Daphne from Scooby Doo, along with his best friend E. He had dressed …

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Quote Of The Day – David Frum

“Halloween is overwhelmingly an adult holiday. This year, for example, Americans spent an estimated $800 million on costumes for children, $1 billion on costumes for adults. Where did that adult dress-up party begin? As best we can tell: in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. In the 1970s, that neighborhood emerged as the heart of a new home-owning, bourgeois, coupled gay community. …

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Open Thread Thursday

What are your favorite scary movies, classic and recent? I always loved the dystopian stuff like Omega Man and more recently, 28 Days Later. Could never get into the campy slasher flicks like Freddy Krueger and Halloween.

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Elvira For Scissor Sisters

“Ew, I wouldn’t touch them with a ten-foot pole. Luckily they’d only touch me if I had a ten-foot pole.”

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Photo Of The Day – Antoine Dogson

Yesterday was NYC’s Halloween Dog Parade in Tompkins Square Park. Hit the link for more hilarious/humiliating photos. (I’m guessing the Breakfast At Tiffany’s entry is owned by a gay man.)

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Open Thread Thursday

Are you dressing up for Halloween this year? Snooki, Steven Slater, Lady Gaga, Chilean miner? Bad boy angel with wings? Naughty nurse? Or something from the Village People milieu?

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Elvira Is Not A Witch

(Tipped by JMG reader Josh)

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Teabagger Halloween

Featuring Andrew Shirvell, Carl Paladino, Michele Bachmann, Christine O’Donnell, and Sharron Angle. Created by JMG reader Centexman.

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Jersey Shore Halloween

This year’s hot costumes? I’m betting on Steven Slater and that super-annoying Progressive Insurance woman. The Walgreens on my block is already all Halloween. Boo.

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HomoQuotable – Dan Savage

“This boy has been out to his family since age 12 and when he wanted to go out in drag on Halloween and his mother made his costume and his dad took him to West Hollywood. There’s just one comment on the post at YouTube right now and it’s from Elliott: ‘Dad let me upload this :D’ His dad let …

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Bette Midler At Her Hulaween Ball

Broadway Speaks OUT’s Marti Gould Cummings interviews Bette Midler at her Hulaween Ball at midtown’s Waldorf-Astoria. Also interviewed: Martha Stewart, Michael Kors, Judy Gold, Gloria Gaynor.

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Open Thread Thursday

Have you ever done drag? Even just for Halloween?

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Key West Bound

Blogging will be relatively light for the next six days as the Key West Business Guild is bringing me down on a press junket to cover Fantasy Fest. I’ll get some posts up tomorrow morning before I leave and probably a couple more during my layover at MIA. After that, it’ll be intermittent poolside vacation blogging as the Guild has …

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The WeHo Effigy Guys Are Back

You may recall the gay couple from West Hollywood who last Halloween raised the ire of the right wing with an effigy of Sarah Palin, which they later took down after complaints from neighbors. Well, they’re back – this time with a nude Maggie Gallagher with her arm raised in a Hitler salute. Via Curbed LA: More about what’s on …

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Carrie Prejean, Halloween Model

Before she was a modest, chaste, virtue-spouting, God-speaks-through-me hero of Christian-only opposite marriage, Carrie Prejean modeled trampy low-cut Halloween costumes. Which, of course, are now on sale. Photos of former Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean, posing in skimpy Halloween costumes have surfaced on a Web site, according to TMZ.com. The photos on Disguise.com, which show the notoriously conservative and self-proclaimed …

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The Scariest House On The Block

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Swag Tuesday

Today’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to Salem, the Saint-At-Large’s Halloween megaparty featuring superstar DJs Peter Rauhofer and Junior Vasquez. Salem takes place on Saturday night at the massive and historic Roseland Ballroom. THE SAINT AT LARGE, gaydom’s premier party for close to 30 years, in association with WORK is proud to present the historic pairing of two of …

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