The Long History of How Halloween Became “Gay Christmas”
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As early as 1935, Alfred Finnie, a gay Black man in Chicago, was throwing glamorous Halloween balls on the city’s South Side.

The phrase “gay Christmas” itself goes back to the mid-20th century as well. According to Stein, it’s thought to be an evolution of “removed Christmas,” a costumed celebration that originated in Philadelphia in the 1950s and ’60s.