The Long History of How Halloween Became “Gay Christmas”

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The Long History of How Halloween Became “Gay Christmas”

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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

As early as 1935, Alfred Finnie, a gay Black man in Chicago, was throwing glamorous Halloween balls on the city’s South Side.

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