Spooky October is here, thus it comes as no surprise that gay Halloween memes have flooded social media sites, X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok. The I Hate Gay Halloween Parties meme has gone viral and invited a lot of discussions around it.
This new internet craze entails someone claiming that they detest gay Halloween events, and then asking the person being responded to, "I hate gay Halloween parties, what do you mean you’re..." afterward. It is followed by an absurd or a very vivid reference to pop culture. It’s cheesy, it’s hilarious, and it’s right in line with the spirit of the LGBTQ+ community and the season when all bets are off.
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If you don’t get the joke, it’s a viral trend through which you dress up in ridiculously specific costumes referring to queer culture, reality shows, and movies. You could arrive as RuPaul on The Weakest Link or a look from the sports comedy, Bottoms. Some creative spirits have even liked Halloween for Ladygaga and her advertisement with migraine medicine. One user summed up the essence of gay Halloween parties:
"I hate gay Halloween parties like what do you mean you're hungover Jax Taylor right before he shoplifts at an airport Sunglass Hut from the Season 4 episode 13 cast trip to Hawaii?"
Internet Humor and Queer Identity
The meme pays homage to the sphere of “chronically online” humor, the inside jokes where a name or a plot can be concocted from either a familiar reality show scene or a 2000s meme of mediocrity. It is the sort of comedy that only those so heavily versed in online culture and exceptionally good at the game of ironic posting can effectively execute.
Gay Halloween parties, for all their glamour, are quite arguably the best of their kind. Many outfits are daring, and many characters’ attitudes are playful, more specifically, it is quite campy in its approach to humor. This meme trend can be taken both as a good-natured roast and as an enthusiastic affirmation of queer culture’s way of approaching Halloween.
Halloween is, therefore, the gay Christmas, the one night during which the starving artist can dress up as the ballerina she wishes to become, in front of friends who won’t sneer and ask her to stick to painting.
Origins of Gay Halloween
Perhaps for many people in the LGBTQIA+, it is a celebration that frees people and allows them to be genuine, unlike many other occasions. Queer Halloween parties can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century when people wore costumes subversive of social traditions as a form of social protest. This changed from rebellion to celebration, from a way to express individuality through creativity to have fun with one another and provoke the system.
The transformation of Halloween into a queer space has made this holiday to become one of the most valued ones. People can relax and goof off as well as come out dressed up to the nines as themselves or as some kind of random meme that was made up on the internet.
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