Hello, Darlings! 🌈 October is here, which means Gay Christmas has officially begun. It’s time to bring out your most fabulous costumes and we’ve rounded up some incredible events to show them off.

Paranormal Activity is currently haunting Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre, with mind-bending illusions from the director of Sleep No More. Enter to win a pair of tickets for one of the after Halloween showings.

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• Dan Savage’s delightfully dirty HUMP! Film Festival returns to Cinema Village Friday, 10/16 through Thursday, 10/22 with an entirely new collection of short films exploring sex, kink, queer intimacy, bodies, friendship and more.*

• Broadway’s giant gay Halloween fundraiser is coming back. Jay Armstrong Johnson’s I Put a Spell on You returns to Webster Hall Monday, 10/12 as A Sanderson Sister Act, its 11th annual Hocus Pocus-inspired Halloween spectacle. It benefits the Ali Forney Center.

• Grateful Dead, but make it drag. BERTHA: Grateful Drag brings its Dead tribute to Brooklyn Bowl on Saturday, 10/10, complete with the full two-set jam-band treatment and local drag and burlesque performers and you can win tickets.

• NewFest just dropped the lineup for its 38th annual LGBTQ+ film festival, taking over NYC Thursday, 10/15 to Tuesday, 10/25. This year’s centerpieces include Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid, Andrew Scott in Elsinore and Ira Sachs’ The Man I Love starring Rami Malek, plus enough screenings, premieres and parties to make “I’ll just see one” an obvious lie.

NYC’S BEST LGBTQ HALLOWEEN EVENTS

We can't wait to get into spooky season. This Halloween season is gonna be iconic from creepy drags shows to costume filled parades and underground dance parties… get into it ghouls!

• 10/30 - ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW ORIGINAL CAST @ THE TOWN HALL

• 10/31 - FANGS AND FOLLIES @ 3 DOLLAR BILL

• 10/31 - HOUSE OF HALLUCINATIONS @ HOUSE OF YES

• 10/31 - THE BOWERY BOYS: GHOST STORIES OF OLD NEW YORK @ JOES PUB

• 10/31 - HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR @ THE SLIPPER ROOM

THIS WEEKEND

LOCALS ONLY

• The Center’s annual Queer in Every Career LGBTQ+ Career Fair returns Wednesday, 10/14, connecting LGBTQ+ job seekers with affirming employers.

• Brooklyn’s Someday Bar gets a month-long goth makeover starting October 1, when cult Halloween cocktail pop-up Black Lagoon takes over through November 1 with macabre cocktails, eerie lighting, creepy décor and unsettling soundscapes.

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