Tricks 'n' Treats: The Best of Gay Halloween 2024

See the boys dressed up as everything from Paul Mescal and Agador Spartacus to a naughty Obi-Wan Kenobi and 15 slutty electoral votes for Kamala BELOW.

Happy Halloween!

Hope you have a starry night.

Trick or Treat?

Happy Halloween from the cat, skeleton and astronaut on Tawas Court in Madison Heights, Michigan!

Morning Wood

Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon

Regular readers know that I went in drag for Halloween when I was 8, with my mom styling me in a way that resembled our eccentric neighbor Karen. On my family's recent trip to Detroit we were driving past our old house when my stepfather blurted out, "You know why Kenny is the way he is?" You could hear a pin drop in the rental van waiting for where this potential barn-burner was going, when Gary continued: "Because Karen Muethel told him about the birds and the bees." When everyone was done exhaling, it all came flooding back to me, this insane detail that had completely slipped my all-too-cluttered memory back when I was writing my memoir. Why this woman -- who was my Son of Sam gossip partner and delightfully hung beads to separate her dining room and kitchen, a la Rhoda Morgenstern -- thought it was her place to tell a boy in the neighborhood about the facts of life is anyone's guess.

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But then again, this is the woman who thought her daughter Laura was a "genius" because she had figured out how to break a Corelle plate -- they were advertising as being "unbreakable," but I don't think throwing it on the cement patio was what the designers had in mind -- and had to be reprimanded by my mother for TAPING the pacifier in her baby son's mouth. I tracked down her middle child, a second daughter she did nothing to disguise her contempt for as she wanted a girl and a boy, on Facebook not too long ago and found out Karen had died in her late 40s of a massive heart attack. It turned out that this daughter, who I always favored over the prodigal child,  had a bizarre connection to the Oakland County Child Killer case, having married a man whose father was once a suspect. (He also wrote a memoir!) When I thought she and I had become close enough to really open up, she handled my unflattering recollections of her mom's behavior toward her (and her Scotch-taped little brother) graciously, explaining that her mother improved with age. It was at that moment I happened upon this old photo of me as her mom while visiting my parents in Arizona, so I got the nerve to send it to her. I've never heard from her since. Happy Halloween, everyone!

P.S. Apparently I wasn't the only gay blogger who did drag a a boy!

Trick or Treat

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Happy Halloween From Booe Spookigny

It's recently come to my attention that Chloe Sevigny has the scariest haunted house.

I Tawt I Taw a Wetarded Puddy Tat

I believe the term now is "flame challenged."

Seen HERE.

Chucky's in Love

Please forgive my tardiness, but I'm just now seeing Debbie Harry's Halloween costume! 

P.S.

Out magazine has a roundup of the best celeb get-ups HERE.

On the Rag, Vol. 379

A weekly look at what's making news in the free gay mags:

Guy (Ft. Lauderdale): Rising model Laith Ashley does it doggy style / Online edition HERE.  

Next: "Drag Race" champ Violet Chachki on surviving Halloween / Read HERE.

Get Out!: This is why people go to Matinee parties! See HERE.

QX (London) is ready for Halloween / Online edition HERE.

Metro Weekly (D.C.): An interview with Denis O'Hare of "American Horror Story: Hotel" / Read HERE.

Frontiers (L.A.): Clifton’s Reborn: A Tour of the City’s New Cabinet of Curiosities / Read HERE.

Lavender (Twin Cities): Introducing the Fine Wine & Dine Issue / Online edition HERE.

Odyssey New York: Trick or treat ... or both? Online edition HERE.

Michael Myers Slept Here

And I thought I was obsessed with the movie "Halloween" ...

SEE?

... meet the North Carolina couple who built an exact replica of the Haddonfield house of horrors! Read HERE.

Did Rachel Dolezal Launch a Line of Halloween Costumes?

It seems we've learned nothing from Mickey Rooney et al.

Where's "China man"?

Trick or Treat?

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Of course, it's hard to top yourself once you've dressed for Halloween as your eccentric neighbor as a little boy ... 

#STFU

Mucho Macho

Cock ring sold separately.

Trick or Treat?

This was why it was so hard to be a child in the '70s: Do you go as Hutch or Sabrina Duncan? No wonder I just went as our neighbor Karen Muethel instead.

And don't even get me started about my obsession with "Jaws"!

On the Rag, Vol. 274

A weekly look at what's making news in the free gay mags:

Next has your Halloween weekend all planned out / Read HERE.

Get Out: Those gays are always trying to such something / Online edition HERE.

Metro Weekly (DC) wants you to keep calm and Carrie on / Read HERE.

Echo (Phoenix): The Sisterzz Twisted drag king group celebrates Halloween / Read HERE.

Frontiers: Michael Menzies is back with a new column, The Boys from Lisbon: An encounter with Portuguese waiters in a West Hollywood bar / Read HERE.

Welcome to Tanya's Hollywood Ghoul House!

Lady reporter Damiana Garcia visits her gal pal Tanya Roberts at Tanya's new business venture, a haunted Hollywood bed & breakfast named "Tanya's Hollywood Ghoul House"! Spooky mysteries and Hollywood spirits abound as Tanya takes Damiana on a tour of the sinister Ghoul House, filled with supernatural danger and impressive Tinseltown anecdotes.

 

WeHo Halloween

The famed Village Halloween Parade may have been canceled -- for now -- but the boys in West Hollywood were out in full force. My friend Danny sent me a dozen hotties ... see 'em all HERE.

And if that's not enough for you, Damiana and her gal pal Barbara Cathy have a report from the All Hallow's Scream parade. Trust me, it's a scream!

The Day After Halloween

I'm not sure when I became such a curmudgeon about adults dressing up for Halloween. With the exception of a party I went to in 2002 with my late friend Larry (above),  I haven't dressed up routinely since I was about 22. 

Still, I probably would have gotten a kick out of hanging out with Debbie Harry and Bette Midler yesterday at the New York Restoration Project party ...

even if they weren't nearly as adorable as my niece and nephew, Ally and AJ ...

who were the scariest trick-or-treaters in all of the Valley of the Sun!