We, as individuals, tend to be involved in our community as a whole ... Beyond ''just marriage work.''



That is the case with our Amazon Goddess, Samantha Ryan...

 pictured here as Sally from ''The Nightmare Before Christmas.''
And her creepy crew of cohorts...
Her partner Amy Dunphy

 pictured here as Jack from ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' with Alex and Jessi Johnson...her imps.

Joe Vittuhn who had to be toted around by some scary old lady
Robert Smitter doing his best as the wicked witch FROM the West...you know those California types!

Our wizard of cards and illusion...how DID he do that!?
The Grim Reaper

 Under all of that is Jamie Aston, mom of the imps.

The Ghost of Chef Boyardee...This guy kept appearing everywhere...rather creepy!
Spook Daddy, Gregg Strobino the keeper of creep!

Cheryle Rudd hangin' with Robert.
Kitty Lambert who spent most of the party under a table!

And Jon Geitz...

 who stopped in before heading home to pass out candy.


Sami is the current President of the Gay/Straight Alliance at Erie County Community College, City Campus. Their club is very outgoing and visible. They promote Safe Sex and Safe School Environments among other things.

They also believe in giving back to the community...

Halloween has long been known as THE gay holiday, (check out Las Vegas or San Francisco if you get a chance on any Halloween) and they proved it with this function at the college. The assignment was for each club to have a safe Halloween for kids at the college, hosted by all the campus clubs with games and prizes and goodies (of course!)

There were lots of clubs and lots of tables with lots of cool things to do and decorations and goodies...

I love crayons!!

 And Dancing!!!





But, no one answered the call like the ECCCity GSA answered the call! They went way beyond the simple table with treats...to...a full blown spook house where and ordinary hallway was converted into a den of death complete with real screams! (You could hear them all over the building.)

Gregg Strobino came in and put it together for them in less than an hour!
There were people lined up all night to get in!

Check out the bunny who is clamped onto her buddies arm!
Baby Joe let a few at a time past the black curtain of death...
And Sami even escorted a few little chickens through...but that was because SHE was scared to go by herself!


And there were all kinds of things just waiting for them!








Sami started praying when someone was in there a little tooooo long!
Even Baby Joe was scared and he didn’t see what was right behind him!!!
And some couldn't run fast enough when they were done!


There was a ''fishing for goodies'' swamp.

Amy and Sam taking a break at the ''swamp'' table.

This guy is great! a very gifted slight of hand illusionist.


and a musical tombstone game!








But beside the goodie… there was the FUN of being with friends!












And of course, there had to be a rainbow in it all!!!
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