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Queer Power Hour

History of Halloween in the Castro

Created by David Boyer with an assist from Canva AI

Halloween — aka Gay Christmas — is upon us. So fix yourself a goblet of witch's brew and crank up the fog machine for a spooky, scary edition of the Queer Power Hour.

On tonight’s show, we hear all about the history of Halloween in the Castro from a most peculiar duo — the Southern-inflected hosts of Beers with Queers, a true crime podcast that we stumbled upon in the darkness of Spotify. This story first aired in 2024.

David Boyer is KALW's Director of Programming and former Managing Editor of KALW News. He is also the producer/host of the Murrow Award winning podcast THE INTERSECTION, which looks at our changing cities, one street corner at a time.