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Halloween in the Castro was an annual Halloween celebration held in The Castro district of San Francisco, first held in the 1940s as a neighborhood costume contest. By the late 1970s, it had shifted from a children's event to a gay pride celebration that continued to grow into a massive annual street party in the 2000s.
Crowd at a 2006 Exotic Erotic Ball stage. The Exotic Erotic Ball (often referred to as The Ball or Perry Mann's Exotic Erotic Ball [1]) was held annually from 1979 to 2009 on a weekend, usually before Halloween night, in the San Francisco Bay Area, California and was a public, adult-themed event.
On October 31, 1989, two weeks after San Francisco was devastated by the 6.9 MW Loma Prieta earthquake, the Sisters used donation buckets to collect thousands of dollars for the mayor's Earthquake Relief Fund from the Halloween crowds that poured into the Castro neighborhood for the massive street party.
The San Francisco Bay Area attraction has been around for 29 years. This year, some places — like Pirates of Emerson Haunted Theme Park — are opting for drive-thru haunted houses.
By 1971, Polk Street was advertised as "one of the gayest streets in San Francisco". [6] In 1972, Polk Street was the location of the first official San Francisco Gay Pride Parade. [5] In the 1950s through the 1970s Halloween on Polk Street became a major attraction for tourists and locals. A migration from Polk Street to the Castro District ...
The Acid Tests were a series of parties held by author Ken Kesey primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area during the mid-1960s, centered on the use of and advocacy for the psychedelic drug LSD, commonly known as "acid". LSD was not made illegal in California until October 6, 1966, under Governor Ronald Reagan's administration.
The first big Halloween parties began on Friday, October 25. From Anne Hathaway’s Boo York City costume to TK-celeb’s TK, take in the most impressive ensembles the stars have put together.
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