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https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/113402434868018343 MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social - Ever wonder what happened to the “Trick” in “Trick or Treat?”

It all started when Halloween was brought to the U.S. by Irish immigrants who were fleeing the Great Famine of 1845-1852. Back then, the holiday was celebrated quite differently than how most Americans celebrate it today. Early Irish-American Halloween celebrations usually began with a big meal, with foods and rituals to divine the future. A traditional Halloween entree was colcannon, a casserole of mashed potatoes, milk, onion and kale, served with lots of butter, if one could afford it. The cook would hide prizes in the colcannon. Finding a ring meant you were the next to get married. A coin indicated you’d have good luck for the rest of the year. Alternatively, they might scoop the first and last spoonful of colcannon into a girl’s stocking and hang that from a nail in the door. The next person to enter through that door supposedly would be her future husband.

Another Halloween treat was barmbrack, a sweetbread filled with fruit, and sometimes hidden prizes. In this case, finding a ring foretold of an impending romance, whereas a thimble meant you would never get married. A piece of rag meant bad luck or poverty. If a girl ate an apple while combing her hair in front of a mirror at midnight on All Hallows Eve, she would see her future husband gazing back at her. If she walked out into the night, blindfolded, and was led to a cabbage patch, she could predict the size and shape of her future husband by the size and shape of the first cabbage she picked. And if she peeled an apple and let the shavings fall to the ground, she might be able to discern her sweetheart’s initials.

The traditional Halloween supper was followed by bonfires, games, and Mumming, a ritual in which people in costumes (often in drag) marched door-to-door, performing rhyming plays, usually humorous, and often in exchange for food, treats, or even booze. Mumming was practiced in Ireland, Scotland, Mann and Wales, as well as several other European countries, going back at least as far as the Middle Ages. And it is still practiced in parts of the U.S., particularly in Pennsylvania, most likely as a result of the Irish and Welsh who immigrated there in the mid-1800s, many to work in the coal mines. Tolstoy portrayed mumming in War and Peace. For a fascinating history of Irish mumming, check out Henry Glassie’s, All Silver and No Brass (1975).

Mumming was likely the origin of trick-or-treating, as mummers sometimes threatened mischief if treats weren’t provided. Some of the pranks and mischief people did back then included removing the hinges from people’s gates; placing farmers’ wagons or livestock on top of their rooves; stringing ropes across walkways to trip people in the dark; mowing down their shrubs; knocking over swill barrels and outhouses; and even detonating small bombs. By the late 1800s and early 20th century, however, Halloween pranking had taken on a much more anti-authoritarian edge. Kids would vandalize their principal’s home, set off fire alarms, throw bricks through shop windows, attack well-dressed pedestrians and streetcar passengers with bags of flour, and strike out against authority, in general. Sometimes, homeowners would fight back, shooting kids with buckshot or saltpeter. By World War II, the authorities were so alarmed that they started to claim that these pranks were threatening the war effort by wasting scarce resources and disrupting the sleep of weary war workers.

Efforts to sanitize the holiday began in the 1930s, when “The American Home” magazine, and radio shows, like the Jack Benny Show, began promoting the idea of parents taking younger kids out trick-or-treating responsibly and politely. In 1950, the Senate Judiciary Committee, under President Truman, tried to transform Halloween into a more family-friendly holiday, renaming it “Youth Honor Day.” It was around this time that costumes started to become cuter and less scary, and that parents started organizing neighborhood haunted houses and parties to keep the kids out of mischief. In the 1952 Donald Duck cartoon, “Trick or Treat,” Huey, Dewey, and Louie tried to convince mean old Uncle Donald to give them candy instead of the explosives he wanted to give them. But the biggest changes came when food, tobacco, and toy companies saw the huge profits to be made from this new trend and began massively marketing candy and costumes in the weeks leading up to Halloween. By 1965, corporations were making $300 million per year in profits from Halloween costumes and candy.

Of course, the mischief never completely disappeared. Teenagers and some adults continue to light fireworks, and commit pranks, like leaving burning bags of poop on doorsteps, or blowing up jack-o’-lanterns. In 1994, MIT students dismantled a cop car and reassembled it on top of the Great Dome on the Cambridge campus. There’s an annual naked pumpkin run in Boulder, Colorado. And the parties can get pretty raucous, particularly San Francisco’s Castro Street Halloween (at least it was until the city authorities took it over, moved it downtown, and sanitized it). I remember one Night-Before Halloween Castro Street Party back in the 1990s, where people had lined up shoes down the length of the street, with the lost shoe of current mayor, and former police chief, Frank Jordan, at the very end, all doused in lighter fluid and ignited in a fiery celebration of disdain for the homophobic, pro-business police and mayor.

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Attached: 1 image Ever wonder what happened to the “Trick” in “Trick or Treat?” It all started when Halloween was brought to the U.S. by Irish immigrants who were fleeing the Great Famine of 1845-1852. Back then, the holiday was celebrated quite...

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La première édition du festival This is Drag annulée.

Pour la première fois, un festival dédié à l’art des drag-queens devait se tenir le week-end des 6 et 7 juillet à l’Elysée Montmartre et au Trianon, à Paris.

Finalement, cette édition de lancement a été annulée.

Dans un communiqué publié sur le site du festival, les organisateurs écrivent qu’il est «crucial de penser à la sécurité de tous et d’avoir conscience du contexte politique incertain» pour expliquer leur choix.

«Cette décision difficile a été prise après avoir pris en compte que ce week-end coïncide avec une des élections les plus importantes de ces 30 dernières années. Nous attendions cet événement avec impatience, y avons mis du temps, des moyens et tout notre cœur.»

https://www.konbini.com/popculture/cet-ete-paris-celebrera-toute-la-fabulosite-du-drag-avec-le-festival-this-is-drag/

#lgbtqia #lgbt #dragqueen #drag #haine #rn #fhaine #homophobie #extremedroite

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Let me tell you a #story.. It starts with me and myself, having a .... very colourful childhood and youth. Not always in positive manners, but in a lot of sexual manners too..

I grew up to be a cis-bi/pansexual male, liking the "passive role" a lot but having no problem being the male part. ;)

Years, a few decades later actually, i'm in a hetero relationship and got to work in the night shift in a hotel right near the Reeperbahn in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg.

And late at night, like really late about 3 to 4 a.m. or so ... a pair stumbles into the entrance way which turn out to be some nice femme, holding someone else on the leash.

I was a tiny bit stumbled to be honest, but i recognized the person on the leash as the one leaving earlier and leaving the correct room number key to me to put in the safekeeping spot for that room.

So i actually didn't hesitate at all. Visual inspection checks out, the person i have seen is present. Somebody else requests the key, while said person is there and aware whats going on and does not seem distressed.

So ... what do you do?

Give the mistress the fscking key...... i don't care about however this constellation came about ... and i wont ever.

But .. i got a nice knowing heads up and a thank you from a random male who was just getting his breakfast at the buffet, hours later.

Sorry for this long story but.

That's how you fucking deal with $any $person you encounter.

#NotJustAlly ;)
#cis #trans #drag #pan #bi #whateverthefuck #RandomShit ;)

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Scott Maxwell, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, argued this week that #DeSantis' obsession with punishing #Disney had become so destructive that "the wheels have come off" the entire venture.

The problem, as Maxwell sees it, is that DeSantis simply doesn't know how to handle improving his national profile in a way that doesn't involve nonstop culture warring that will grow off-putting to non-Republican voters.

"See, your average #American doesn’t believe #Mickey and #Minnie are trying to turn #preschoolers #gay or that the Main Street Electrical Parade is a covert #Pride operation," he writes. "They’re not obsessed with #drag queens. And they’re not keen on #book #bans." #LGBTQ #Florida #GOP #GOPLiars #Disneyworld
https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-2659878726/

'The wheels have come off': Florida editorial blasts DeSantis for threatening Disney with prison

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continued his crusade against his state's largest tourist attraction when he threatened to build a prison right next to Walt Disney World.Scott Maxwell, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, argued this week that...

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