For those who don’t know Henri (pronounced Henry not onree) David owns a jewelry store. Each Halloween, he throws one heck of a party. The location varies, and I don’t know where it will be this year. Admission is $15 for people in costumes and IIRC 30 for any one dressed in ordinary clothes.
I went for the first time last year. Since Henri is gay and proud, and Philadelphia has a sizable GLBT community, the party included male strippers(Several of whom flirted with my ex. Quite an ego boost) and a female-impersonator with a magnificent voice singing the old standard "It's Raining Men". Several local papers have noted that part of the fun is trying to guess(not out loud) the sexual orientation and gender of the guests. Quite a few costumes, however, expose more than enough skin to provide a definitive answer on at least one of those questions. Costume competitions are held in 8 categories-most decadent, best couple, most horrifying, most spectacularly amazing, (memory rusty could be wrong on rest) best comedic costume, most beautiful female impersonator, most believable female impersonator, and ? . 3-feet-tall trophies are awarded along with other prizes.
I can’t wait to go this year. I’ll be the techno-knight with the LED studded pole-axe. I’m going for spectacularly amazing this year.
So, who else is going and as what? And were any other Dopers in attendance last year? If so, as what?