As Seen on TV
This actress broke major ground in 1997 when she came out both in real-life and on TV, making her character the first leading character on TV to be openly gay?
Ellen DeGeneres
This openly-trans German pop artist released her Halloween-themed EP "Turn Off the Light" in 2019.
Kim Petras
As famously stated on Rupaul's Drag Race, a _____ face means that one's makeup is done perfectly.
beat
The 1993 film follows a villainous comedic trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night.
Hocus Pocus
This celebrity child has made a name for herself over the course of the last decade and a half as an actress, singer, and talk show co-host alongside her mother and grandmother.
Willow Smith
This show starred the first openly trans person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy award.
Orange is the New Black
An annual children's Halloween festival, founded in 1948, was morphed over the latter half of the 20th century into a street party for this neighborhood's gay population.
The Castro District
This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s Black and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene.
Paris is Burning
The television musical comedy, Glee, showcased this cult classic, about a trans scientist in their season 2 Halloween episode.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
This New Zealand native is best known for directing a film trilogy, set in the fictional Middle-earth.
Peter Jackson
This NYT bestselling author made history as the first trans woman of color to write and direct an episode of television for the Ryan Murphy FX series, Pose.
Janet Mock
On Halloween 1913 in Pittsburgh, PA, several women were arrested for this when trying to enter a pub.
cross-dressing
This 1995 cult classic stars Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo as three New York City drag queens who embark on a road trip.
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
“Whenever someone says the _______ isn’t openly gay it’s like?? Did you even watch the movie???” - 2017 Tumblr post about this "gay icon"
Babadook
This rapper's best known hit became the first hip-hop track to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990.
Vanilla Ice
After "Will & Grace" tackled gay issues humorously, it was time to take it a little more seriously. Which show in 1999 in the UK, and the American version in 2000, is considered the first hour long drama to feature gay lead characters?
Queer as Folk
These haunted house alternatives, were first popularized in the 1970s by evangelical churches to depict sinful acts and their consequences, including homosexuality.
Hell Houses
Conchita Wurst is the Austrian singer and drag queen who won this international song contest in 2014.
Eurovision
This franchise horror sequel is known as the 'gayest slasher film ever made' because of its homoerotic undertones.
Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
This American journalist became a national name after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in September 1961.
Dan Rather
This TV show was the first to feature a recurring lesbian character when Sandra Bernhard's character Nancy Bartlett came out to the show's title character and her sister?
Roseanne
This American poet and scholar famously declared Halloween as "the great gay holiday".
Judy Grahn
This dance move popularized by Ru Paul's Drag race as either the "Shablam" or "death drop", has long been referred to by the Ballroom community as this.
A dip
This openly gay screenwriter revitalized the slasher genre in the 90's with modern meta-classic SCREAM.
Kevin Williamson
Among this actress' credits is a reoccurring role in the supernatural television series, Ghost Whisperer. She was also a main character on the Freeform television series Switched at Birth.
Vanessa Marano