Sorry to hear about Halloween in the Castro, the city should be able to handle it.
Sounds like you were being “punished” for last years events. Hardly a solution. It’s just not right.

Great to hear Curtis today, the splish splash episode with Curtis was one of my favorites.

Nice show guys! Sounds like you had a blast at the Halloween parade. sad though how the Castro is being a dictatorship now? HMMMMMMM…….Curfues and blockades…. I hope they get their Halloween Fun Back for next year!! Talk to you guys soon! Stay safe!

Guest are great but my favorite shows are always just the two of you and the regulars hanging out together and shooting the shit. Nice show.

I cant have enough of SACA LA PRESION! i want it as a ring tone LOL

Loved the show, I had read about those poor clams! DUMB Scientists! I hope next year the Castro District gets their shiz together and has a kick arse Halloween cuz i would LOVE to be there!

Great show!

MUAH!

p.s. marc I love it when i get my insults at 2-3 in the morning!

If a local government can’t provide safety for people during a parade, that meens something is very wrong. This is exactly their job to do that, and if they can’t, their either incompetent or unwilling.

I really liked your costumes! I hope there will be more movies with suspiciously friendly Koreans. Too bad there are no Halloween in my country (Poland). Here it is the time of grief and remembering those, who are gone forever. Like the Autumn wasn’t depressing enough.

The problem with parents telling their children that being gay is ok is that not all of them think it really is OK. There are still some countries (like mine) where many people think that this is a disease and that it should be cured. There are parents that actually rejected their children for this or even humiliated them. I have read a story in a newspaper about a girl which was lesbian and her family somehow found that out. She was attacked by her father and brother on the street. They stripped of her clothes and shouted ’show us how a lesbo does it’. It isn’t common, but still this happened.
So this new approach - tell your kids you’re fine with them being gay before you get killed - could work on imagination of some intolerant parents…

Forced feminization? I’m game.

Oh lord, what am I getting myself into?

Seriously though, I wasn’t in the “Halloween Spirit” much at all this year until about two days before Halloween. I would have loved to have been dressed up in SOMETHING but I just didn’t have any good ideas, and no time to execute anything. Next year will be different.

I had such a great time with Fausto, Marc, Amanda and Ooga (who looked an awful lot like Grimace from the McDonaldland characters if you ask me)! And then there was that cute boy from Circuit that apparently liked me… but didn’t have the guts to tell me so! Arrgh! Just my luck

I wish all these hunky men dressed up like semi-naked Spartan warriors all the time. It was really hot.

I dressed up as the Catholic Superstar ( Molly Shannon) asn went out with my friend who was dressed at the purlpe Tele Tubby during San Francisco Halloween in the Castro a couple years ago. It was great fun to see all of the costumes, but the crowds were enormous. Im sad to hear that they shut it down. Shutting down the public transit was a huge mistake…all of a sudden thousands of people had no way of getting out of there at 11pm. We had to walk for miles in costume, in the cold foggy hilly streets to get home, it was tough.

SF should capitalize on the increased tourist revenues, have lots of police there to keep revelers safe, and have public transit going all night so that that they can clear everyone out of there when its time to go home.

Ill be your 1st lesbian cake sitter if I can find a camera.

Was I at the same Halloween parade as y’all? It was fun hanging out with friends, but it was hardly a subversive, or even very “gay” affair. At least half the adults were costume-less, and there were tons of small children with store-bought costumes and dogs wearing skeleton sweaters. If the event were cancelled, it would be no great gay tragedy.

*glee* you guys said my name(twice) on the show :DDD you are very welcome for the donation~

and the Halloween parade looked fun.( i saw the video first) your costumes were great..and those Koreans… that one guy was all over Fausto XD it was great. fun times.

Persikov, what were you wearing at the Parade?

The truth is out: I was one of those costumeless adults. From my blog-

And for me? I thought about going as “army guy” (wearing camo pants, white t-shirt, leather jacket) but it just looked sad. My roommate said “you look like you’re going as a bum pretending to be a vet to get cash.” Ouch. Actually, that would have been a sort of creative costume, but it wasn’t the idea. Instead, I wore a purple shirt that had a tree with a crow sitting on it. It was a “scary” Halloween gesture, but I honestly don’t think anyone noticed.

Yea, I didn’t do anything for Halloween either I stayed at home. Sigh.. No parties to go to! I LOVED the halloween montage. I figured it might be a little boring, since it was so long, but it was SO funny… I loved the costumes, guys

And if you Ctrl + F5, it will do a forced refresh with makes it download everything new So you can say that next time hehe. That should fix the pictures on people’s profiles.

…but I do wish my profile would say my correct age Not sure why mine won’t change!

I find it horrible that the Halloween festivities were cancelled in the Castro. I think the government has too much power when they start interfering with peoples holidays. Just my opinion though, great show guys!

I think Curtis should run for elected office. He’s so well informed about gay issues. And if that doesn’t work, I support a coup d’état and have Mr. Jensen installed as Queen.

Sadly, I think the gay community has been comodified. We’ve been tricked into giving up our radical revolutionary roots of the sexual revolution and exchanging them for dreams of hetero privilege, like marriage and white suburbia. When they couldn’t keep us in the closet, they turned us into consumerist sheep, so we’d become culturally impotent and irrelevant. Its the new repression. If you can’t beat them, brainwash them. I’m afraid we’ll need another crisis before we’ll unite again.

Thanks for covering this story about the cancellation of Halloween in the Castro. It was good to get more of the facts (for example, that the shooting last year only started after the police started to harass people). I agree and disagree with Curtis Jensen’s assessment that the problems are due to a lack of leadership–it would seem that the gay leadership is in collusion with (i.e., participating in) the gentrification and heterosexualization of the Castro. Gavin Newsom’s actions as mayor of San Francisco are deplorable in this respect. May a thousand Halloweens bloom all over the Bay Area!!!! SACA LA PRESION.

A cake sitting gal. I can’t wait.

Around here (Georgia), it’s not vampire fangs that make the costume, it’s Bubba teeth! And to quote NPR, Singapore Air Lines probably wants you to know that sex can happen if you’re quiet enough. It’s all reverse psychology!

I hope San Francisco learned it’s lesson this year & lets Halloween back in to the Castro! Bad things may happen in a large crowd, period. Especially if liquor is involved. They just need security (ie extra police protection) to ensure it does not get too rowdy.