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Results for the following question: Do you feel that straights spoil the gay Halloween experience?

Yes
 40.5%

No
 52.5%

Undecided
 7%

Total Votes: 661

Comments:
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steve rosentahl
Halloween is for everyone. Gays just know how to enjoy it more.

wilbur
It's cool if they come to the event as long as they are there with an open mind and to have fun, not to act stupid or make fun of us like a few of them do. I think when you have an event of that magnitude one should expect some of those small minded idiots to show up. It's not a private party and after all we have to remember it is still a free country.

John
Last night I went out to the West Hollywood street festival. It seemed like the crowd was overwhelmingly straight, and not many people, straight or gay, were in costume. I miss the old days when the crowd was almost all gay, and the costumes were really inventive and outrageous. I'm not sure I'll go back next year.

Toby G
Not straights who join in the spirit of it, but "yahoos" who just want to ruin it, yes. As is mentioned somewhere, laughing WITH us is great; laughing AT us is the problem.

anonymous coward
Those who just come to party don't spoil anything. But the ones who come to rant and rave about the "abominations" going on spoil everything and should be removed, by force if necessary.

terry
I guess spoil might be a strong word but it seems straights come in just to gawk and taunt us. Maybe next time, when gays find something that we can celebrate, we keep that secret to ourselves. As much as we love our straight friends, especially "girlfriends", it might be best to keep it quiet. That way, the dogs that follow the straight girls (read straight young guys) won't follow her into our parties.

Austin Letts
I feel that we as a community just keep wanting and wanting and wanting. We ask for acceptance, and when we do have straight people attending our parties or events, we complain because we think the straight people have ruined our parties. I wonder that if we were given the right to get married, if that would satisfy us!!

Anonymous
I don't think the gay halloween expirience needs to be any different than any one elses, so I don't think any one is ruining it.

Anonymous
I believe that historically heterosexuals have yielded Halloween and the use of disguises to commit acts of discrimination, hate and violence on sexual and gender minorities. ~DA

C. Bryan King
I think it really depends on the intent of the straights. If they're dressed up &/or participating then no, they don't spoil it. If they're just gawking, then yes they do spoil it. But then again, no more than Christians spoil it for us Pagans.

Juan
Such a daft question.

Enrique
I think the answer for the most part is "yes." I lived in the Castro for 15 years and I saw the celebration become larger, less "gay" oriented, and down right dangerous. The group that coordinated it was more concerned with gathering donations for other projects than effectively managing the event, and being respectful of the local residents. Many options were discussed in several neighborhood meetings, but nothing was ever implemented. The Halloween in the Castro is no longer a Gay or Halloween event, it's about 5% in costume and 85% watching, drinking, and 10% harassing LGBT people. Not any fun, as some of us Gay people define that word.

Anonymous
If you use the word "spoil" -- who'd be in favor of that. But should we discriminate? They're just coming to enjoy the fun we set up.

Bruce J. Cronin
Cancelling Halloween festivities in the name of safety is similar to what happened in New York City in 1943. Rather than protect its tax-paying African-American citizens from marauding southern service personnel intent on violence, the city shut down the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Just as in the Halloween cancellations, the intent is the same: Blame the victim, and tighten the net.

BIG TONY
Why can't straight people leave us alone?

Anonymous
I don't really understand the point of view of straights runing Halloween... but whatev...

Steve McWilliams
Straights love to hate gays, even while they are 'invading' gay events. We have worked very hard, under very trying conditions, to make a place for ourselves, somewhere we can be ourselves and celebrate who we are. This does not mean that we want to insulate ourselves from the rest of society, only that we, as anyone else, need times when only we gather together for things that are important to us. Imagine a group of people interloping and disrupting an ethnic or religious or other cultural festival. No doubt, the uproar would be deafening. But we are "only" gays and so it doesn't matter. What is worse, is that, from reading the article, the police and civic authorities are blaming us for the trouble. We've come some distance from the "bad old days", but events such as these only show how very much further we have to go.

Tommy
Ridiculous poll. I'm offended on a human level.

Jim Guinnessey
I remember from many years ago when the Halloween Parade in New York City was strictly a family and residents-only gentle parade inf New York's Greenwich Village. It would wind its way through colorful streets of the Village-Gays and Straights alike, baby carriages and Gay-themed floats or groups. Later it grew outside the Village and became primarily a Gay extravaganza. I liked the old Halloween parade more. It was a fusion of all folks regardless of orientation, race or religion. No one group owns Halloween and the media should know that by now.

Anonymous
YES! They've ruined it LONG before now!

Anonymous
a truly stupid holiday

Anonymous
Few things are more fun than flocking with the birds of a feather. HK

Anonymous
I have had a great time with straight friends on Halloween. It is a very, very small minority bent on causing trouble that ruin the experience for everyone. Essentially the same thing happened 35 years ago when the celebration was on Polk Street.

Chris
Oh boo hoo! Straight people have come to the party. Poor gay partiers. What happened to the tolerance that this community is supposed to be known for. This is just intolerance. If you can't welcome everyone to the party, don't attend.

Anonymous
What kind of question is this? Turn it around and you'll see it's just as discriminatory as saying "do you think the gays spoil the straight halloween experience. I'm gay and I have two children. I plan to dress them up and take them trick or treating. That's the experience. It's just as bad to be heterophobic...shame on you.

Michael
Yes! Though the Greenwich Village Parade actually started as a straight event. It was a small parade of children of artist's who lived in the Westbeth complex. They created elaborate costumes and walked up West 11th Street thirty plus years ago. In those years, gay men in costumes would wander from bar to bar in the village. And there were so many bars then! So maybe we ruined the kids' parade! It truly was more of a neighborhood event but eventually got so big it had to be coralled onto Sixth Avenue over twenty years ago. It's fun for all and everyone should go at least once.

Brendan in Montreal
Since when did halloween become a gay holiday? Its for everyone, I am all about being inclusive.

Scotty
The non-gays that have come to the "partys" say that we know how to party and have fun. Why not share it?

Anonymous
I didn't know it was a gay experience

Roland Dekker-van Ghyl
It would be better surpervised if it was held in a stadium.

Anonymous
To an extent, though the drunks (gay or straight) do a much better job of spoiling the fun.

Joe Laux
Next to Pride, Halloween is our 'High Holy Day', and it DEFINATLY is not a time for us to discriminate. We should welcome our straight friends to OUR party, as long as they obey our rules and treat everyone with dignity and respect. Just like any other event, if someone wants to get rowdy, they're out; that's why there are police at these functions.

halfchicory
I hate it!

Anonymous
Of course. I love licking chocolate off Bruce's phuck stick. Au natural.

Anonymous
The most telling quote is that "these people who come out now are not there to laugh with us. They are there to laugh at us". It has gotten to this situation where it is no longer a gay festival for us but rather a cheap "gay minstrel " show for some heteros. "The solution would be to make it a "private paid entrance" street festival where "gay" is emphasized and gawkers, minors,gangbanger, and troublemakers are not welcome. We do not want to be furthur "used" to amuse straight people, we do that often enough in our everyday lives!!

Jay Esby
Just went to Halloween parade in Dallas-at least 75% of the people there were straights with kids. It made an already bad parking situation worse and I doubt that the majority of them support the LGBT community.

Anonymous
Of course not...As a parent, isn't Halloween for kids? I think a lot of people (straight and gay) get their panties or jockies in bunch over stupid things, this being one of them. Talk about a non-issue. ???

L Ashton
Our community could stand to be classier than our straight brothers and sisters. How on earth can we claim they spoil our events? We do that well enough on our own by acting like sluts.

Anonymous
I'm gay, and my Halloween experience hasn't been altered by anything straight people do. To me, Halloween is just an annoying holiday.

Mike Andrews
It wasn't the straights that caused the downfall of the Halloween Parade. It was the businesses. When they started lining the street with concession stands (you could by anything from beer to popcorn) that ruined the 'neighborhood' feel to our parade. They turned it into a 'special party'. I'm surprised the city didn't charge for admission. This, along with publicity attraced the undesirables to attend. In Hollywood they shut down the straight Halloween parade so they all come over to join our party, bringing the real freaks with them.

Anonymous
Straight America amazes me. They constantly complain about gay people destroying our "god-fearing" American culture (including marriage), but then they want to belly in and party with us at our events. Apparently they are too stupid/uptight to make their own fun.

Anonymous
Straights tend to spoil other gay experiences too. NYC piano bars, in the late 80s/early 90s, were a nice place for our community to meet and greet without being too cruisey. Then the straights heard about how much fun it was to drink, sing and laugh turning the scene into drunken, hetero, shouting matches. Also, I've noticed in Rehoboth Beach, DE, the happy hours at local gay bars are overrun with str8 girls drinking too much and trying to flirt with shirtless gay guys because "they feel safe" in our company. They rationalize their actions claiming, "This doesn't mean anything because you're gay and I'm a girl." Not cool.

john
dum poll ?

Anonymous
YES! I feel that they've ALREADY ruined a LOT of our venues. What's even more sickening is seeing how members of our OWN community just LOVE to kiss hetero ass!

Keith Andrews
I really don't understand this question. WTF?

Scott
Year after year, Halloween in the Castro district of San Francisco has grown larger and become violent. Businesses that depend on Halloween as one of it's big money makers are being asked to close early by the city politicians do to their incompetence and inability to control the event. The businesses are not being forced to close but choosing to do so to save the neighborhood from a night of violence and vandalism. My straight friends always come with me to Halloween and on other nights out in the Castro, participating in the festivities and celebrating the openness and diversity. So to say that straights spoil the fun is not conducive to the conversation. Gay Pride and the Folsom Street Fair have a great number of straight participants and have not become violent events. The underlying issue is, as a society, we still have rampant problems with homophobia and politicians that tip toe around the subject unless their hand is forced to address gay rights and equality. Why are people coming to a known gay neighborhood and yelling derogatory comments and inciting violence is the question that should be asked?

Max Evans
That's the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Don't we have bigger issues to address? If Newsweek asked "Do you feel that gays spoil the stright Halloween experience?", the editors of The Advocate would have a collective hissy fit.

Anonymous
What a stupid question.

Anonymous
I went to the Castro's Halloween street party in 1989 and a huge straight man hit on my girlfriend in a hostile manner. I never went back. Plus there were too many people.

Lee
South Beach's former most amazing place to spen Halloween has become the place for straight people to attend and make fun of gays. I just don't want to be part of it anymore. I prefer to go to private parties.

Nick
It wouldn't be so bad if most of the straights kept with the spirit of the occasion and wore costumes themselves rather than simply showing up in busloads only to gawk at what they consider to be "freaks", trash our neighborhoods, and saying how glad they're not us. Halloween used to be fun but now I wait indoors, at home, with the lights out for it to pass.

Anonymous
Hopefully mainstream culture will benefit from exposure to the LGBT community.

Jen
Forget it! Halloween is for kids! LGBT people have more important issues to deal with like the denial of our basic Human & Civil Rights by a bigoted society.

Richard
Been going to W.H. Halloween for 20 some yrs., but NOT anymore, tooooooo many straights and tooooo much big business. It's NO fun anymore! The "art" has been taken out of the "party!" Too bad for W.H., SFO, D.C. and the village.

Steve
I think anyone who shows up at a costume bash in everyday street clothes is a 'spoiler.' It's just tawdry, and sexual orientation has nothing to do with it.

Anonymous
Move along heteros! Back to the grunge pits of rural Shitmerica for you and your kind! LOL!

Randall Shirley, Vancouver B.C.
I've never understood what the "gay Halloween experience" is. I'm gay, and I hate Halloween. Always have.

Anonymous
Just like they've spoiled everything else, and so now what's to stop the breeders from shooting up OUR gay pride parades and Folsom Street celebrations?!?

Anonymous
In San Francisco the Castro St party was overtaken by straight allies. Then they invite their less than open friends and pretty soon there is friction. Having straight allies is great for our movement, but we needs some alone time - just the GLBTs.

Anonymous
They also spoil Gay Pride in SF, the last Gay Pride event I went to was over 70 per cent straight, all the gay people stay home. It's not fun for the us anymore.

Jim
As a former resident of San Francisco's Castro District I would say yes. When I lived there I, and most of everyone I knew, avoided Castro Street altogether on Halloween night - same was true for New Years Eve. Often we'd drive up to the Russian River and simply get out of town altogether; even though we lived there. It was a madhouse and the vast majority of folks going there were not from San Francisco and were not gay. There was always some sort of violence and as each year went by it just became worse. Let's face it, we gay folks KNOW how to throw a great party. It's too bad it can't be kept a secret.

Jonathan
Straights ruin Halloween? Where did this come from? The religious right attempts to ruin the holiday, but only if you allow them.

Christopher
It's frickin Hallowe'en for crikes sake. It was never really ours to begin with. In truth, it was always meant for kids, and the young at heart. That's where we kick ass!!!

Anonymous
This is the silliest question in the history of the Advocate poll.

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Linda
Excuse me! How in the world can heterosexuals spoil the halloween experience for homosexuals? Stop blaming hetersexuals for everything!

Anonymous
Name one of OUR celebrations which the breeders DON'T fuck up!

Dave
We all kind of live in our own little world anyway. So, no, I don't think or see how Str8s ruin the gay-Halloween experience. Besides Christmas I don't know of a gayer Holiday. Friends: join me at (.r.yuwie.com/xyanth)

Ann Marie Knittel
I feel they strengthen it for the whole GLBTIQ community, but mostly the transgender community.

Laszlo
Breeders spoil everything. All they want to do is be killjoys. I really hate 'straight ' people.

A.J.
I don't socialize with strights.

dev.
there's a "gay Halloween experience"? I've been missing out, apparently!

Paul Liehr
Yes, but it's the natural evolution of any spontaneous street celebration to morph over the years into an unmanageable mob situation combined with retail hell .

Anonymous
Freakin' breeders RUIN it for EVERYONE!! Get them OUT of OUR bars and OUT of the Castro!!

J. Gardner
A few straights joining our party was great, but now with the largest majority being straight, spoils the fun.

Robert Nunez
Straight are spoiling so much in West Hollywood. They are moving in and trying to de-gay the city. Don't they already have the rest of the world? We need our gay events and our gay spaces!

Anonymous
I've lived in San Francisco for two decades, and the Halloween Party in The Castro is no longer a party or celebration within the gayborhood. It's become a straight, gang ridden mob crammed into a few blocks with little protection for the actual residents of the area. The shift really started accelerating in 2000 when the dot.com boom hit its peak, and it's gotten worse every year. Like the annual parade, most of my gay friends skip the event for much more enjoyable private parties and unadvertised events.

piglet
Is this the silliest question that has ever, ever been asked on an Advocate poll, and there are certainly plenty of previous contenders?!

J
Don't gays get to keep anything for ourselves anymore? I don't mind including straights in our gay activities but they are beginning to over run our clubs, our events, our neighborhoods... Half of them don't even respect us our fight for our rights and then many complain when they see us making out or showing affection. Then they talk behind our backs!

Anonymous
Over the years, they've spoiled a LOT of experiences. Let's just hope that they can help to heal some of that in the future.

Anonymous
heteros don't belong in OUR community. KEEP THEM OUT!!

Anonymous
No just all the gay bars in America.

Roger,New BedfordMA
Isn't Halloween for everyone? The young at heart? Since when did it become a gay holy day?

Buzz
Why are you singeling gays out as spoilers as of Halloween? People will generally find any excuse to party. People, not the least bit interested in football, have Super Bowl parties. Each year Mardi Grau is celebrated not only in New Orleans, but in gay and straight bars throughout the country. It is not only gay adults that get dressed up and party on Halloween, straights do it too. On Oct. 31 office staff frequently come to work in costume. Gays are not and have never been out to destroy the "experience" of any holiday. When celebrating, however, all adults should guard against the temptation to drink and drive!! Irresponsible people can ruin any experience. The fact of who they are has no bearing!!

Anonymous
they are starting to Ruin West Hollywood Hallowen Carnival... i hate that they bring their Strollers and talk smack

Anonymous
Some of your questions are stupid.

Anonymous
Some Gay's also spoil it for other Gay's. We need to stand together, not fight each other. Halloween is meant to be fun, especially to the Gay community, enjoy it, don't talk down on it. It's our day, let's not let other's destroy it because they don't like Gay people anyway. Also, it's a harvest festival celebration to many other types of people, but their are those that want to destroy it for those people as well, perhaps the same groups that hate Gay people.

Jp
No more than gays spoil straight events, most attend events to celebrate the event and build community and , sure, some to disrupt and call attention to there little selves, like anywhere.

Kevin Olomon
Good Lord- I would be OUTRAGED if anyone asked straights: "Do you feel gays spoil the straight Halloween experience?" Why such a silly, divisive question? Sometimes when I read these poll questions I feel as if they are posed by a group of liquored-up goofballs seeking to roll back the hands of time to a day ages before the progress we've made took place! Will you please STOP making the Bill O'Reillys of the media seem truthful and legitimate?

Bob
Straights, per se, are not necessarily the problem here in the (San Francisco) Castro where I live. The problem is the ignorant and thoughtless people that come to our neighborhood from out of the area to cause trouble. I have no problem with straight people as long as they can behave. We are a culture of diversity and acceptance and tend to accept everyone. If only everyone could accept us ...

Anonymous
That has always been the way. We start a fad or make something fashionable and eventually the straights claim it as their own. Then they proceed to ruin it. It will happen more and more quickly as we assimilate and become more accepted by mainstream society. Such a pity we lose our own uniqueness !

Adam
I think gays spoil it just as much. I know more gays that will think less of you if you dress like a woman than gays that will actually consider dressing like a woman. What happened to no judgement?

Daryl
Growing up, Halloween is about 2 things, pranks and treats. As we grow older though, that perception doesn't really change much... unless your gay. When I saw my first gay Halloween, it wasn't like the straight parties I had gone to at all, it was.. well.. over the top, and highly social. I felt a connection to it that made me a part of it, not just a participant. But that's what was so insanely fun about it! The explosions of creativity and color around me were intense. No dull-store bought outfits there! Straight people going to these events love the outlandishness of the costumes, but they don't feel that inner connection to the event like I did. To me, it was a kindof freedom from everyday life in a straight world... To them, its more of an event.. put on for them to observe, but remain at distance from.

Bob
This may come as a shock, but sexual orientation has nothing to do with whether one celebrates Halloween or not.

Anonymous
I'm not even sure what this question means. Were you to be more specific, like asking about the fights on Castro Street in San Francisco, then the question would make sense. But what you're implying is that straights can't enjoy Hallowe'en, too.

Ash
What does that even mean? Halloween is for everyone. When did it become a gay experience?

My name is Optional?
What the hell? I thought Halloween was for kids. Why should gays have a monopoly on dressing up in idiotic costumes and acting like infantile jerks? Shouldn't children have that prerogative as well? Besides, we have all year to dress up in idiotic costumes and act like infantile jerks and many gays do just that. In fact, I know a lot of queens who live their entire lives that way.

Anonymous
Where I live, some (but not all) do.

Shane
Is there a gay Halloween experience? I never noticed it.

Mario
Hell yes, they ruin our bars and clubs, they exploit and mock our culture, they assume to know more about us than they really do, they pretend to care when they dont give a damn, and they think we have it better than we really do---they dont really care about us, we're not really human to them, just an exotic occassionally amusing "other".

Tim
Absolutley. I remember the street parade in Dallas in the early '80s. It was so much more fun than the store purchased costumes of today. Staight poeple are so conservative and take all the fun out of such a festive time.

Louisa
How ridiculous! Did we invent Halloween? Last I checked, it was a holiday aimed mostly for children, which some adults still enjoy partaking in. While sure, there should be adult Halloween parties, including gay ones, nobody owns the holiday.

ab1007
I used to live in the Castro. What a joy Halloween was: fun, drag queens, parties, and hot guys. As soon as straights traveled in from shitholes like Hayward, Antioch and Redwood City, the violence soared and they ruined the party atmosphere. Frankly, I have little need for straight people. I know, I know, this makes me a separatist but, I prefer to spend my life with members of the LGBT community. Straight people are a bore and trouble. I would be very happy if I never had to interact with another straight person again.

Anonymous
It's a compliment they copy a lot of the gay Halloween experience.

Anonymous
This topic does nothing but perpetuate the stereotype that we are once again being victimized. If we want the inclusion of marriage, then sharing events like Halloween shouldn't be an issue.

Rick
It's not so much that straights have spoiled the Halloween experience as it is that success has spoiled it. The gay Halloween festivals have become so successful that they now attract thousands of people to join in on the fun. Unfortunately, whenever you have large numbers of people at an event, the chances of trouble goes up.

Anonymous
What a stupid question. We don't own the holiday.

bruce
Yes, I generally think straights are a drag.

Green Gay
Wow, this question sure reflects all the important things going n in the gay community.

Anonymous
Straights spoil every aspect of gay life. Why is it a surprise they destroy the gay Halloween life too?

Rod Polte
Whether you are gay or straight is not the issue. What spoils the Halloween experience is when the "Halloween Tourists" outnumber the partiers. Over the years the lookie-loos have begun to out number the participants. No one minds a few uninvited wallflowers, but when that becomes the majority of those present, the sense of reckless revelry, the gay mardi gras attitude is lost. Please, come one, come all! However, it's not a museum exhibit! It's a party! Come dressed to amuse or impress and ready to get it on!

Anonymous
Yes, they do. In San Francisco, a bunch of straight people come just to gay bash. Others come to leer and gawk. Even those straight people who come peacefully completely change the character of the neighborhood while they are there. All of the LGBT people I know refuse to spend Halloween in the Castro. It's awful that we get kicked out of our own neighborhood.

Casper
No, because Halloween is the time of year I begin to get that warm fuzzy feeling about Fall. Whatever takes place in my mind - superior to that of heterosexuals- they cannot take away unless they finally kill me. Halloween to me is a warm fuzzy feeling that will remain in my heart forever, which implies that I become a ghost that exists forever on earth just to taunt and scare straight people. Boo!

Anonymous
I still think of Halloween primarily as a children's holiday. I still like to dress up to pass out candy and maybe go to a costume party. I've never understood how it came be be a "gay holiday." Too many gays (and straights) want to take any holiday and turn it into one more excuse to get drunk and act like idiots. If anything, it's adults -- especially religious fundamentalists, overprotective parents and the creeps who make parents overprotective -- that have spoiled it for kids. I see fewer trick-or-treaters every year, and that's really sad.

Ryan
Straights (Religious ones) try to ruin fun for EVERYONE! No celebrating halloween for anyone just stay in and pray. No candy. And those gay nieghbors better keep those cars off my lawn for this godforsaken whores party next door or i'll call the police! Sound Familiar? Everyone who is gay or straight but open minded go have one hell of a fun halloween and lets scare the crap outta these party-poopers!

terry
Yes because they're just there to gawk and taunt instead of participating with us. They're there for the spectacle and unfortunately we let ourselves become that spectacle. I saw we move these parties and keep it amongst ourselves. It may sound extreme but who wants rampant gang members and drunk frat guys harassing us?

Anonymous
This is a ridiculous question.

Anonymous
What a silly question.

Anonymous
this is the stupidest poll!

Anonymous
I dont know where you spend your holloween but since coming out in 1980, I spent most of my holloweens at gay bars and gay parties...and of course dressed in drag(the only time you'll catch me in a dress). It has nothing to do with straights spoiling the gay hollween experience. I dont have the foggiest idea where you came up with that question.

Anonymous
Come on! How ridiculous of a poll question is this? Who came up with this? Not that everything has to be life-or-death serious, but come on! The "halloween experience"?

Anonymous
I'm not sure if it is a straight thing or a gay thing, I think the problem is that the wrong people are showing up to these events for the wrong reasons. I think that the wrong type of presumed straight people (gangs etc.) have the tendency to spoil such events like Halloween in the Castro and even Pride festivals. Look at the example in the Bay Area last year, those gangs have no idea what the 'party' is for or who the party is for. I was also at SF Pride this last June and I was diappointed at the massive amounts of drug use, passing-out and vomiting to the point where the whole thing was disappointing.

Anonymous
Is this even a serious question?

Steve
Absolutely not. My straight friends get into Halloween way more than my gay ones do. Chicago has a major halloween parade that has been growing and growing over the past few years and there are probably more straights there than gays. Who comes up with these questions & how much are you paid?

Anonymous
Halloween is a holiday for everyone- and everyone can celebrate in their own way!

Travis Colten Yocom
The Halloween experience should not be gender-oriented, but rather a holiday that anyone can enjoy. Since I am a Wiccan it is a holy day for me. Halloween is all wrapped up in Autumn and the slowing down and death of Nature in preparation for Winter. I have been into Halloween since I was a little 'mo. I agree that some Christians try to ruin it by saying it is a Satanic holiday and other such lies and misconceptions. One year I had a mom and her kids first take my candy at my door and then hand me a Christian anti-Halloween pamphlet!!! I know their goal was to dissuade me from giving out candy or otherwise celebrating it and they failed. I have also found at a different time my mailbox stuffed with religious literature. Again, they failed to move me their way. You know, the Christians bellow that we gays are "recruiting" their kids....hmmm, but aren't they the ones in the business of recruiting for their sects??? And trying to force us to be straight? Anyway, don't let anyone of any orientation keep you from celebrating Halloween, whether as a holy day or just for fun!!! (We all know that the Christians stole all of the holidays from the pagans, we want them back!!!)

Anonymous
Since when is Halloween a gay holiday? Gays can be "outlandish and outrageous" any old day of the year, and straights really only get that on Halloween. But honestly, don't you think there's plenty of Halloween to go around for all? If you want to complain, how about when we were kids and could celebrate Halloween at school and all over the neighborhood for hours and hours? Now there's no parades or parties at school for our kids, and all that excitement (and store hype) for them leads up to perhaps an hour of trick-or-treating on their own block, or worse, at the freaking MALL. Why does everything have to be a yours/mine fight? Everyone party....

Anonymous
YES!!!!!!!

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Who is the next great female sex symbol?

July 9, 2007
Severing ties
Does it matter if the Anglican Communion severs ties with the Episcopal Church?