Halloween

Halloween is often referred to as “Gay Christmas.” It’s a night when we queer people get to shed our realities and turn into any thing we want. Some of us flex our creativity by designing elaborate, fantastical looks, while others lean into meme culture and pair any mask with a harness and jock and call it a costume. We take to the streets and stir up all sorts of good natured trouble, transformed from mere mortals into the wild and powerful beings we know that nature intended us to be! In many ways, it’s a night when we get to be ourselves. Therefore, it came as no surprise to me, and it should come as no surprise to you, that Nasty Pig Inc was literally incorporated on October 31st, 1994. What an appropriate day for the Universe to have swayed the hands of the federal government to officially birth our gay owned and operated baby. Some might call it a mere coincidence, but I definitely know better.

So I want to wish Nasty Pig a Happy 27th Anniversary, and I want to thank you for being part of this long term, very polyamorous relationship. When we started with fifty dollars almost three decades ago, there were just a handful of you, but twenty seven years later, there’s a world full of Nasty Pigs. Whether you’re in Hell’s Kitchen or Helsinki, Boise or Berlin, you can spot one another by wearing our logo, and know that you are part of this great big NP family that has spanned generations. I am humbled by our success, and I never, ever lose sight of the fact that it exists because of your belief in what we do. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Yours in sodomy,