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Looking to cause mayhem and hate in the Castro this Halloween, teenagers? Look elsewhere. (SFist's official stance on Halloween in the Castro's ruination is this: scary, scary teenagers are to blame. They always are.) The Castro is, once again, not having a massive bash on Halloween night. SFGate has the police department's official press release. Ahem:
There will be no City-sponsored venue in the Castro district for Halloween, Saturday, October 31. There will be no official entertainment provided and no street closures are planned.The San Francisco Police Department will be enforcing a zero-tolerance policy regarding public drinking and any other criminal activity. Those violating laws prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in public will be subject to arrest.
Check out Home for Halloween for more details.
In related Halloween news, slutty black cats or devils, pimp/ho outfits, and Frank Chu costumes have been banned this year. Well, not really. But they should be.
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Frank Chu costumes are only appropriate when there is a good chance that you will run into Frank Chu
There is probably a good chance that the universe would implode if that happened, so yet another reason to ban the costume.
I'm gonna dress up as that Chinese Muni bus ass kickin' lady...
Ha. Can't stop my Slutty Feline Frank Chu costume, bastards!
All the cool kids are going to Polk Gulch for Halloween. The Castro will have way too many cops.
Look for me dressed up as Balloon Boy.
Aaahhhhh, and here I was looking forward to riding my bicycle thru the Castro swinging my bike chain around yelling anti-gangbanger slurs.
Good; go pee, puke, poop and scream at the top of your lungs in your own neighborhoods.
Sucks, because Halloween is one of the reasons I *moved* to the Castro. I specifically moved here because of Pink Saturday and Halloween. =P Well, that and all the nice people, 24 hour convenience, and the sense of acceptance.
That said, I find it sad that the Castro has only been reduced to one awesome street party a year. =( (No, Castro Street Fair does not count -- it's fun but more in a take-your-Grandma sorta way).
Can't we have Halloween back and just not talk about it? Pink Saturday works very well that way. Keep it an open secret, and the right people come.
A big Halloween party that is *NOT* at a bar would be nice. =( And the Disney-fied thing the city tried to do last year does not count.
A couple Pink Saturdays ago, I remember seeing a mass of naked dykes all crammed into an Office Depot shopping cart, rolling down Castro. THIS is why I moved here. (Well, not the dykes, I mean, but the fact that it's a fun place like that).
This? Is why I can't wait to move out of the Castro. I like my acceptance without a side of trashy street fair, thank you.
...but part of acceptance is accepting the street fair. =)
It also means accepting the guy here that donated a bunch of money to Prop 8, although god knows why he lives here. o.O;
It also means accepting dudes by the station holding signs that tell us we're all going to hell for putting it in the poophole.
Now the gay bashers that used to come on Halloween? Actually hurting people? That's where the line gets drawn. The whole fist-swinging rights ending at another's face principle.
Freedom means you take the (subjective) bad with the (subjective) good.
11pm curfew for anyone under 18 in select neighborhoods. Castro, Polk and North Beach - Halloween hot spots. Other major metro areas do it, why can't we?
Let the adults do their thing and get the kids back home where they belong at that time of night. There is no reason for a 16 yr old to be hanging around in the Castro at 12am. It's amazing that between dopey smurf Newsom and the new police chief that they cannot figure this out.
Canceling Halloween is like banning adults from buying beer because one of the kids might sneak one out of the fridge.
It's great that the City and other would-be "organizers" have exited the Halloween business. That's how the whole mess got started: focus everyone on an organized event in a single neighborhood. Let holiday celebrations be spontaneous and individual, and let our already-adequate public order laws be enforced.
I don't enjoy any of the overcrowded, smoke-choked Castro street events with their "charity" sentries. Leave them to the tourists.
Uh, yeah, this is bogus. Halloween has been "canceled" in the past. I'm still planning on going to ANY gay bar in Castro, costumed and inebriated.
Also, the Friday before will probably be an excellent night to go out.