Halloween is a day that has held a special significance for San Francisco's LGBTQ community going back decades; but this year's is likely to be more noteworthy.
Not only does the holiday fall during a weekend, it is expected to draw the most Halloween revelers since the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the Bay Area Reporter reported last October, community leaders asked people to stay home for Halloween. In a joint statement, gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and Masood Samereie, a straight ally who is the president of the Castro Merchants Association, wrote that while "celebrating Halloween in the Castro is a tradition that dates to the 1940s ...