Alas, it no longer exists, but for many many years the OKC AIDS foundation held a Halloween fundraiser that was truly the event of the year. Food, drinks, decor, and the Ls Gs Bs and Ts in their very very finest costumes. I saw some truly great works over the years: a drag queen dressed as the entire film of The Wizard of Oz, in a half black and white/half color ensemble complete with a top hat that was Emerald City with the witch on her broomstick actually flying in a circle above it. Every time I passed her in the crowd I said “You’re going to win the big prize” and when she did, she came and found me and hugged me and said “You believed in me!!” I saw a bunch of lesbians dressed as the Partridge Family, and when they’d walk around the room they all held cardboard panels that came together to form the bus, and they’d wave out the windows at us. A woman with dwarfism dressed as JonBenet Ramsey in her cowgirl pageant gear. My best year, I found a set of pink silk slippers and built a 30s movie star peignoir around it— I got so many compliments from the drag gals!
When I was in high school I was known for having a girlfriend and got some shit about it sometimes. One guy used to hassle me a lot, telling me being gay was a sin and I was gross and going to hell. Like a lot of outspoken homophobes, he set off my gaydar and one day when he wouldn’t lay off I told him so. “The only people obsessed with gay people are other gay people.” He was big mad, no surprise. Then one year at the Halloween ball, I was checking my makeup in the bathroom next to this gorgeous drag queen when she suddenly stopped and turned to me. “Mandy!?! Oh god honey, you were so right!”
So you can keep your Pride parades and your music festivals, I’ll even take a pass on an Oscar party if you make sure I never miss Halloween.
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Back in the day, Waaay back in the day. There were a lot of comics based on television shows. In the 50s, pretty much every Western series except for just one or two had at least one Four-Color comic dedicated to it.
Moving forward to the late 60s, and early 70s, there was a different type of series with its own ambiance. They, too, had comics based on them. But which were the most popular?
The Partridge Family is the winner with 22 issues, plus as a side item David Cassidy also had a comic that made it to 14 issues.
The Monkees with 17 issues.
Yeah, the kids with their hair and their clothes and their bee-bop jazz music!
Happy Days with 6 issues.
Use to know someone sure that Happy Days was set not in the 50s but in 1962 and based on American Graffiti. When I pointed out that in the first season, they had an episode dealing with Eisenhower and Stevenson's presidential election in 1952. "Where were you in 62?" "Where were you in 62!" he shouted as if that was anything other than the tagline for a film that had nothing to do with the series other than one actor who was in both. "You know he was also in Eat My Dust? Is Happy Days set in the 30s, then?" "WHERE WERE YOU IN SIXTY-TWO!!!"
He kept repeating until he was satisfied he had proved his point.
I think he works at FOX News now.
Family Affair 4 issues
The Flying Nun 4 issues
The Brady Bunch. 2 Issues.
Ouch!
And showing, that (sub-genre) is not dead, which can eternal slumber.
Saved By the Bell from 1993. 5 issues. From Harvey of all companies!
The first five comics should have had cross-overs, that would have been fun, but they didn't do that sort of thing back then.
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why do we feel like shirley partridge and reuben kinckaid would have made an amazing couple
of course were also aware that david cassidy and susan dey tried the same thing offscreen and it ended up into a dumpster tornado
but honestly offscreen david and susan did look perfect as fuck together
also off topic but maybe not off topic, how do we become a partridge- idk its js in the pic and stands out lmao
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