Halloween gay

A lack of widespread queer press prior to the midth century makes it hard to pinpoint the exact origins of queer Halloween celebrations, but as early as , Alfred Finnie, a gay Black man in Chicago, was throwing glamorous Halloween balls on the city’s South Side.

An extravaganza of the supernatural, all things sweet and larger-than-life costumes, many LGBTQ Americans like Roberts hail Halloween as "gay Christmas.".