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By Matthew Belak, GOHI Intern
Picture this: October 25, 1981.
You and your friends are preparing for the biggest event of the year. The theme is “A Black & White Affair.” You don your top suit, accessorize it with your most expensive cufflinks, complement it with your largest statement rings. You are dressed more extravagantly than you ever could have hoped. After looking yourself over one, two, three, five, ten times in the mirror, you think to yourself: “Perfect.” Your party makes its way to the venue, where an usher leads you to your table and offers each of you a program detailing the lavish night that awaits. The program lists special appearances by your hostess, Miss Dolly Divine, and... Nancy Sinatra!?
You’ve done it; you’ve made it to the illustrious Halloween Berwick Ball.
The Berwick Ball was a Columbus-based Halloween event, first held in 1964. The event began as a formal costume party and provided a safe space for Diverse people to gather and enjoy drag shows during a time when police routinely raided gay bars and parties. Over three decades, the Berwick Ball gained local renown to become an annual Halloween tradition.
As alluded to earlier, the host of t
Gay Halloween Tip Sheet
Costume ready? Party planned? What, you don't have plans yet for Halloween? With just six days left until the gayest holiday of the year, moment is ticking to fetch your ghoul on – especially as its organism on a Monday brings a whole weekend of frights beforehand. Let us be your guide with this crib sheet of the coolest gay events from coast to coast. As for costumes, just try to avoid one of these.
CHICAGO: The city's biggest bash is in Boystown with a pride from Belmont to Bradley on Halsted Street with plenty of boozing, main stage entertainment (Musical of the Living Dead, Chicago Fire Tribe, and more) and after-hours action in the bars and clubs. Visit NorthHalsted.com for more info.
COLUMBUS, OHIO: Held prior, on Friday the 28th, The Short North Highball Halloween combines both a general costume contest and a couture contest fashion reveal with plenty of gay creativity, pulling in crowds of over 20,000 from throughout the Midwest; from 5pm to 1am outdoors, under and around the area's iconic arches.
DALLAS: On Friday, October 29, the Cedar Springs gay strip in Oak Lawn becomes one big free avenue party from 7pm to 2am. There will be DJs, laser
I went to Columbus, Ohio for a Halloween party! As you do when you love both traveling and that holiday. Plus this event is famous to be very LGBTQ-friendly (with kingly queen Nina West as a headliner) and you understand I especially devotion to go anywhere that’s good for the gays!
The places and experiences featured in this video include Le Meridien Columbus The Joseph, North Market, Stonewall Columbus, Fireproof Restaurant & Lounge, Service Ba, Robyn at Express Live, Union Cafe, Columbus Town Adventures, Slammers, Columbus Museum of Art, Antiques on Lofty, Barcelona, Club Diversity, Boscoe’s, Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Columbus Italian Festival, National Veterans Memorial & Museum, The Guild Residence, and HighBall Halloween.
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If Halloween is Homosexual Christmas, and we celebrate it firm, it’s always excellent to change it up once in a while so it does not get monotonous, but still a hell of a nice time. This year I decided not to partake in Wilton Manor’s Wicked Manors Halloween celebration, as have done for the past 10 years. It was a tough holiday celebration to miss, always renowned on the actual holiday, as it’s full of, I don’t want to say eye candy, but eye cocaine. I wish relate people that the most common costume is a jockstrap and glitter. It’s truly a sight to see with 30,000+ people in attendance on ‘The Drive’. When I told friends that I was not going to be here for this Halloween, I had to juggle friends and guest rooms and my main bedroom as my house became an Airbnb for that holiday week/weekend.
But where was I to go? What other cities could I visit for Halloween? I set my sights on Fresh Orleans, Louisiana and Columbus, Ohio. But one thing I didn’t dig for were uber male lover celebrations, but just fun-filled experiences.
New Orleans, Louisiana and Krewe of Boo –
I’ve been going to New Orleans at least once or twice a year since 1997 as I have a brother that lives there. I grasp the gay stuff that