Seventeen years after a mass shooting injured nine people, Halloween in the Castro is officially back.
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"I think there’s no better place in America to celebrate Halloween than the Castro," Poueymirou told KTVU.Halloween has never completely gone away from San Francisco’s LGBTQ district, but this is the first big event in 17 years."I was about a block or so away. I heard it, the commotion. The streets were cleared," Hart recalled. "We lost our fun. Hopefully tonight we get it back full force.
"This really was a project of unity that brought together so many organizations that are interested in making the Castro the greatest place it can be," he said."People are out in full force, and we’re jumping, and it's very good," Cliff’s Variety owner Martha Asten said. At the heart of it all was the century-old Castro Theater, showing Halloween blockbuster classics like "Hocus Pocus."There is no magic spell to pull off their look."And that’s what Halloween really is about: candy, going door to door, having that fun with your kids," drag performer Melanie Sparks said.Organizers said the Civic Joy Fund is planning to donate more than $100,000 back to those businesses for their time and support.
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