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Halloween is ‘gay Christmas’ for many in the LGBTQ community. This year, it has been canceled. (WaPo)
The Washington Post ^ | October 15, 2020 | Samantha Schmidt

Posted on 10/18/2020 8:55:44 AM PDT by Salman

This was going to be the year that Halloween fell on a Saturday.

For the weeks leading up to it, Chanel Devereaux, a drag queen and longtime host at Nellie’s Sports Bar in Washington, would have lined up performances across town. She would have sewn more than a dozen extravagant costumes for other drag queens and painted scores of friends’ faces for the long-running High Heel Race on 17th Street in Dupont Circle and the Miss Adams Morgan Pageant. The month of October alone would have brought in about a quarter of Devereaux’s annual income.

“Halloween is what I affectionately call the High Holy Days of drag,” Devereaux said.

But almost all of those plans have been called off because of the coronavirus pandemic. Devereaux had already lost more than 90 percent of her annual income, ever since the District halted live performances in restaurants and clubs. Now, the most important time of the year for drag performers is effectively canceled.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: halloween; homosexualagenda
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To: dfwgator
“I’ve grown to loathe Halloween over the years.”

It is no longer a fantasy day for children. The movies about it are demonic and so violent they are disgusting. Adults have taken the day and turned it into a Bacchanalia worthy of of that namesake.

21 posted on 10/18/2020 9:52:32 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Salman

“Because everything is all about sodomites.”

Endlessly so. If there’s anything still wholesome or even just reasonably innocent the faggots and their Romans 1:18-32 supporters rush to make it all about the sin they so adore. And Halloween wasn’t all that innocent to begin with.


22 posted on 10/18/2020 9:57:58 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I do think Elvira is a nice lady....


23 posted on 10/18/2020 9:58:30 AM PDT by Shark24
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To: Shark24
I do think Elvira is a nice lady....

Giddy up oom poppa omm poppa mow mow
Giddy up oom poppa omm poppa mow mow

24 posted on 10/18/2020 10:03:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Is it just me? This Covid hoax has “ erased” or “ blotted out” many, many activities that is not pleasing to God. That said, I can say the year 2020 has been a very blessed year for me and my family. ...and I do thank the Lord every morning and night for having been able to keep working 40 hrs a week, and being able to attend Church, life has been very good to me during the entire fear campaign....I will even take the liberty of saying my wife’s Cancer has been eradicated, I received much paid time off, was able to visit my out of state elderly mother many times, even found checks in the mail.... and many more blessings. Much Praise and Thanks to the Lord is in order, he keeps me strong and secure. Stay focused on the Lord, nothing else really matters.


25 posted on 10/18/2020 10:06:46 AM PDT by delta7
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To: Salman

But the larger point is that the liberal fascists trying to cancel Hallowe’en are anti-gay and all the rest of the lgbtqisx...whatever.


26 posted on 10/18/2020 10:10:07 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: tbw2

The head witch of the Church of Satan has been quoted saying “ Halloween has been a gift to us”. Make no mistake, Halloween celebration is evil.


27 posted on 10/18/2020 10:11:48 AM PDT by delta7
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To: Salman
Halloween's just not the same ever since Zacherley aka The Cool Ghoul passed away

28 posted on 10/18/2020 10:13:02 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Salman

Democrats want to make DC a State?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-takes-over-annual-high-heel-race-on-the-eve-of-halloween/2018/10/09/04758ae8-cbf8-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_21

D.C. takes over annual High Heel Race on the eve of Halloween

Drag queens in pumps, platforms and stilettos will race down a Dupont Circle street this month as they have for the past 32 years, with one marked change: The District’s annual High Heel Race has been taken over by the mayor’s office.


29 posted on 10/18/2020 10:19:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's base: Why doesn't Biden have rallies in black communities?)
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To: Salman

Well the gays are upset! On Walpurgis night and Halloween they are supposed to kiss the anus of the devil. TASTY to them! Now it’s being cancelled.

https://www.jrbooksonline.com/images/PDVD_028.jpg


30 posted on 10/18/2020 10:43:22 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Cowboy Bob

Will they will be wearing masks?


31 posted on 10/18/2020 10:47:22 AM PDT by Do_Tar (Do I really need a /sarc?)
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To: Salman

I know it’s the WaPo, but sheesh - restaurants are going broke, small businesses need loans to make payroll, people are missing rent payments, schools are closed - and what they’ve decided is worthy of national news is a drag dress designer missing his busy season?


32 posted on 10/18/2020 10:53:12 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: dfwgator
"One good thing about the Rona, I’ve grown to loathe Halloween over the years."

I'll give you another good thing, just the parade of non-stop bs about Bruce, or Madonna, or KUWTK (cancelled), or Taylor -- every float on that garbage-scow parade has no engine pulling them along.

33 posted on 10/18/2020 10:55:39 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (I've got your Third Rail of Politics right here.)
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To: Billthedrill
"I know it’s the WaPo, but sheesh - restaurants are going broke"

This is maybe the most mind-blowing part of the bug, Democrat Governors going after Democrat Restaurant Owners. I mean, maybe 1 in 10 in the midde- to high-end restaurant biz is pro-Trump. Maybe.

And yet Cuomo and deBlasio have just been unrepentantly merciless in driving them out.

Also, Chanel is no doubt still going to find a way to worship Moloch on Oct.31.

34 posted on 10/18/2020 11:18:33 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (I've got your Third Rail of Politics right here.)
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To: Salman
“Chanel Devereaux, a drag queen and longtime host at Nellie’s Sports Bar in Washington, ... would have sewn more than a dozen extravagant costumes for other drag queens and painted scores of friends’ faces for the long-running High Heel Race on 17th Street in Dupont Circle and the Miss Adams Morgan Pageant.”

What is wrong with these people?!

35 posted on 10/18/2020 11:24:51 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

The moved the “pride” month to October in my Texas city because of the June heat. How convenient.


36 posted on 10/18/2020 11:25:45 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: Salman
From the WaPo article:
“... D.C.'s ban on live performances in most restaurants and bars, and a requirement that all music remain at a conversational level...”
What the hell is that about? “Conversational level” means no music other than maybe low-level background elevator-style Musak of absolutely no interest to anyone in the room.

As a performing musician, I’m already out of luck at playing live, but to then prohibit me from even listening to enjoyable music at a level where you can hear it OVER OTHER PEOPLE’S INANE CONVERSATION is just a bridge too far.

I bet if it’s some Communist Anthem they’d turn the volume up, though.

**SPIT**

37 posted on 10/18/2020 11:27:05 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: dfwgator

I love kids. On Halloween I like to sit on my stoop for a few hours and hand out all the candy myself.

For various reasons I ended up not having children but I do have nephews and nieces.

But I am very naive. God knows what the neighbors must think of a 52-year-old man sitting outside handing out candy.

with my luck one of the mothers will mace me for handing out a Snickers.


38 posted on 10/18/2020 11:30:00 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: OpusatFR
Adults have taken the day and turned it into a Bacchanalia worthy of of that namesake.

So; we've come full circle.

39 posted on 10/18/2020 4:58:36 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Salman

I wonder if they had ‘screamed’ about this earlier, if anyone would have had the guts to ‘cancel’ or ‘deter’ it.


40 posted on 10/18/2020 5:02:01 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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