Halloween Costume Ideas: LGBTQ+ Icons of 2024
Published: 10-11-2024 | 3 MIN READ | Author: Andie Carver
Spooky season is in full swing, which means Halloween is right around the corner. Traditional couples’ costume ideas are almost exclusively heterosexual, so it can be hard to find something to wear to the Dallas Block Party or Boo Bash at the PHNTX Empowerment Center on November 1, 2024 from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Speaking of Boo Bash: If you rock a killer look, you could WIN the $100 costume contest. And admission is completely FREE. Free entry, free NA drinks, free food, LG-FREE-TQ.
But what will you wear?!
Don’t worry; we came correct with ideas. Here are several individual, couples’, and group costume ideas for 2024 LGBTQ+ icons.
Individual LGBTQ+ Costumes
Chappell Roan
You’ve got options here. You can go based off of one of Chappell’s exact looks, like the tiara and long gloves from her album cover The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, or you can go more for essence. The essence of Chappell is bold makeup, black tie accessories or an article of clothing from another time period, butterfly or angel wings, a pink cowboy hat, and/or a feather boa. (More than likely “and,” knowing Chappell.)
You may also find inspiration from the conspiracy that Chappell is intentionally getting her looks from Miss Piggy.
Bonus: Couple’s costume idea – Chappell Roan and Kermit the Frog.
Brat
This is not a suggestion to dress as Charli XCX, though you certainly could. Brat, Charli’s iconic summer album, is the main idea here. There’s a lot you could do with this, actually.
You could be Brat Summer and wear a neon green bathing suit because, to paraphrase the words of Cardi B, “a [Brat] never gets cold.”
You could dress as a Bratz doll, donning neon green. People will get it.
Wear a hotdog costume with a neon green tube dress over it that says Brat across the front.
Whatever you choose, you could blast one of the songs from the sensational album every time you enter a room.
Country Post Malone
Of course, there’s nothing particularly gay about Post Malone. But his look is fodder for gender-bending realness. However you identify, throw on a cowboy hat, boots, a jacket, and temporary Posty face tattoos, and you done did it.
Bonus: Hetero couple’s costume or bestie costume – Cowboy Carter Beyonce and Cowboy Posty.
Bonus-Bonus: Add “Pink Pony Club” Cowgirl Chappell to make it a group costume.
Jojo Siwa
For the pettier of us, there’s Jojo Siwa, more infamous than famous these days. If you search Jojo Siwa costumes on Amazon, however, you’ll only find Jojo’s earlier looks—which are a choice, even still, now that we know what she would become. But we’re suggesting you go for Jojo’s rebranded look, which requires black eye makeup and face paint, black lipstick, a faux hawk, a long-sleeve black leotard with lots of sparkles and rhinestones, and above all else, an attitude like you invented gay pop. You may also consider throwing in that ugly stomp-dance she does during photo/video ops.
Bonus: Group costume idea – Two of your friends can dress as Tegan and Sara and follow you around shaking their heads at you all night.
Gay Couples’ Costumes
Deadpool and Wolverine
Ryan Reynolds loves to play a straight man who is very comfortable with his sexuality, but in our fantasy, he’s full gay with his lover Wolverine. This will not be a cheap costume. You’ll have to really commit to the bit here. Be sure to make out vigorously through the masks, or else no one will know you’re gay.
Wicked
Can we TALK about the obvious gay tension between Elphaba and Glinda in the trailer for Wicked, Part 1? Long-time fans of the musical know the heterosexual end game of the plot, but a gay can dream, and the easiest way to do that is by (wo)manifesting this ‘ship via Halloween costume. It’s not easy being green, but it’s worth it for the photo ops.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
You can just go as two Beetlejuices. Get it? Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?
Joker and Harley
Despite the poor reviews rolling in, no one can deny the looks being served in the trailers for Joker: Folie a Deux. These costumes can easily rival those from Suicide Squad (the bad one, with Will Smith). Technically, this is a straight couple’s costume idea, but is it? Really? When both parties are wearing that much makeup? AND Lady Gaga, Queens of the Bi-zantine, is one of them?
Queer Group Costumes
Mean Girls
With Renee Rapp leading this remake musical, the OG quotable film just got a little gayer. You can do the Jingle Bell Rock look, or you could incorporate the First Day of School looks. There’s no wrong way to Mean Girls.
Challengers
Let’s celebrate this breathtakingly bisexual sports film by commemorating its main trio. This feat requires three people, tennis costumes, tennis props, and entire handfuls of hair gel to maintain that constantly sweaty look. You could get creative with eyelash or wig glue, creating little rivers of sweat down your temples.
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