The Castro Halloween festivities resurrected two years ago will be changing tact this year, hoping to revive the spirit of the long-dormant street parties. This year, plans call for a celebration of the holiday with an expanded version of the neighborhood’s popular night market on Friday, October 31.

Halloween has had a long, tortured history in San Francisco’s LGBTQ neighborhood and was eventually shut down following violent incidents. In recent years community leaders have attempted a Halloween comeback but at a fraction of the size and shorter duration than the original unofficial street party.

“For the third year running the Civic Joy Fund, in partnership with many Castro neighborhood stakeholders, has worked to reimagine Halloween in the Castro in a way that both nods to what this h

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