These Gay Dads Are Making Halloween Memories on Their Family Farm

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These Gay Dads Are Making Halloween Memories on Their Family Farm

For Dustin Smith and his husband, Burton Buffaloe, Halloween has become a way to make memories as a family. This year, their son brought a new creative direction: monsters.

In an October 30 interview with PEOPLE, the North Carolina dads discussed their family’s costume tradition and son Stone’s choice of a Stranger Things theme.

Dustin helped create his Demogorgon costume, turning the idea into a project father and son could work on together.

The photographs capture a seasonal celebration. Behind them is a longer story about two husbands building a home, sharing parenthood and giving their children traditions of their own.

A new chapter on familiar land

Dustin and Burton are raising twins, Stone and Holland, with a connection to a place that has been part of Burton’s family for generations.

According to Holl & Stone Farms’ official history, William D. Buffaloe established a farming operation there in 1878. The land’s agricultural past included a pick-your-own fruit farm.

In 2020, Dustin and Burton purchased the family property and began reimagining it as a working farm where others could experience the place too.

That purchase fulfilled an ambition the couple had previously discussed publicly. In an earlier WALTER interview, Burton described their dream of buying the farm and opening it to the community.

They imagined a place for celebrations, local produce and shared experiences. What was then a plan became part of their family’s everyday life.

Friends before husbands

In that WALTER conversation, Burton recalled meeting Dustin at a house party he hosted in Raleigh.

The two became friends and stayed in the same social circles before their relationship turned romantic. They later married and became parents to their twins through surrogacy.

Their online presence began with family photographs, much like those shared by other proud parents. Messages from followers brought questions about their lives and encouraged them to tell more of their story.

Through Dustin & Burton — Raising Buffaloes, they have shared parenting experiences, their relationship and their perspectives on being gay dads in the American South.

Making room for family joy

The couple told WALTER that they hoped their visibility would help people recognize the everyday experiences they share with other families.

They also wanted to encourage parents to enjoy time with their children and couples to have fun together.

This year’s Halloween project offers a warm example of that approach: a child has an idea, a parent helps make it happen, and the work itself becomes time spent together.

There is plenty to enjoy in the finished costume. But for a family building its own traditions, the hours of imagination and collaboration are part of the celebration too.

Happy Halloween to Dustin, Burton and their family.

📷 @brandiebairdphoto / @dustinpatricksmith / @bbbuffaloe

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Harry Hamlin at 75: The Gay Romance He Still Has No Regrets About

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Harry Hamlin at 75: The Gay Romance He Still Has No Regrets About

Harry Hamlin turned 75 on October 30. It is a fitting moment to revisit a performance whose importance cannot be measured only in box-office returns or the jobs that followed.

In Making Love, released in 1982, Hamlin played Bart, a gay writer who becomes involved with Zack, a married doctor portrayed by Michael Ontkean. Kate Jackson played Zack’s wife, Claire.

The film brought a gay romance to a major Hollywood studio’s screen at a time when that was an unusual and professionally risky choice.

A story he thought deserved to be told

Hamlin has repeatedly recalled being warned against accepting the role. Coming off Clash of the Titans, he was being considered for leading parts, but wanted something more substantial than the scripts arriving on his desk.

Speaking with Andy Cohen for Interview in 2022, he explained that he saw Making Love as a story about a real social experience that needed to be discussed.

He also shared an affectionate memory of his father enthusiastically recommending the film to people at an airport. His father, Hamlin recalled, was proud of him.

That is a lovely detail to set beside the anxiety surrounding the role: while others worried about its consequences, his father wanted people to see his son’s work.

The career cost, in his own account

Hamlin believes the film affected his opportunities in the studio system. In a 2022 Yahoo Entertainment interview, he said meetings for studio pictures stopped after its release.

He also acknowledged that nobody explicitly told him his gay role was the reason, and that the film’s disappointing commercial reception could have been a factor.

His acting career continued through independent films, theatre and television, including his breakthrough on L.A. Law. In a later Still Here Hollywood podcast interview, he described 80 for Brady as his first studio-film offer in roughly 40 years.

What audiences gave back

The other side of the story is the response from gay viewers.

Hamlin has spoken about men approaching him to explain that Making Love helped them come out or talk with their parents. One encounter he recalled involved a man in Palm Springs thanking him through tears.

For people who grew up with few mainstream images of gay intimacy, a film could become part of a much larger personal story.

Asked by Cohen about regrets, Hamlin said: “I have no regrets about Making Love.” He added that it might be the work of which he was proudest.

Hamlin is straight and married to Lisa Rinna. His place in this particular piece of gay film history comes from a character he chose to play and the audiences who saw something of themselves in that performance.

A day after his milestone birthday, that feels like a good reason to send him some love.

📷 20th Century Fox / Making Love / @harryhamlin

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Danny Pintauro Finds His 1997 Coming-Out Article and Feels Proud of His Younger Self

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Danny Pintauro Finds His 1997 Coming-Out Article and Feels Proud of His Younger Self

Danny Pintauro had been searching through storage for six months when he finally found it: the original 1997 National Enquirer article about his coming out.

Almost 30 years later, the discovery has brought an unexpected feeling alongside the complicated memories.

He is proud of the young man who tried to make sure his voice was included.

In a new post on his Instagram account, the Who’s the Boss? actor explained that he was 21 when the tabloid told him it would publish a story about his sexuality whether he took part or not.

He decided to speak for himself.

A choice made under pressure

Pintauro’s account makes an important distinction: agreeing to an interview did not mean he had chosen the circumstances or timing of becoming national news.

He wrote about how difficult it was to have something so personal become public before he was ready for it to happen on his terms.

That history is consistent with his earlier recollections. In a 2015 interview with Oprah Winfrey, previewed by Entertainment Tonight, he discussed coming out after the Enquirer threatened to reveal his sexuality.

The rediscovered copy gives him a chance to look again at what that younger version of himself did within a situation he had not chosen.

“If this story is going to be told, I want my voice in it,” he wrote, describing the resolve he now sees in his 21-year-old self.

Remembering the support beside the headline

The article itself also surprised him. Despite its oversized, distinctly 1990s headline, Pintauro said he found it more heartfelt than he had remembered.

According to his post, it described the support he received from his family and his former co-stars Tony Danza and Judith Light. It also included a message about courage and coming out from Chaz Bono.

Pintauro thanked Bono, explaining that seeing those words beside his story means more to him now than he probably understood at the time.

Those memories do not remove the pressure surrounding publication. They add another part of the picture: the people whose encouragement was recorded alongside a deeply personal story.

A familiar face, telling his own story

For many viewers, Pintauro remains familiar as Jonathan Bower, the son of Light’s character Angela in Who’s the Boss?, which ran from 1984 to 1992.

Now 50, he has built a life far beyond that childhood role. He married Wil Tabares in 2014, and marked their twelfth anniversary earlier this year, as Queerty reported.

His latest reflection is centred on the distance between having his story pushed into public view and being able to decide how to tell it today.

Looking at the original article, he wrote: “And I’m kind of proud of him for that.”

Then came the closing thought: “Still gay. Still here. And very grateful that today, I get to decide how my story is told.”

📷 @dannypintauro

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Troy and Dyllan’s Photo Booth Proposal Captures the Sweetest Surprise

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Troy and Dyllan’s Photo Booth Proposal Captures the Sweetest Surprise

For the first photograph, Troy Gladstone asked his boyfriend to smile. For the second, he asked him to marry him.

That simple change of plan is at the heart of a photo booth proposal shared by Troy and Dyllan Andrew, the couple known on social media as @dyllanandtroy.

The video captures Dyllan’s surprise and joy as an ordinary picture-taking moment becomes a marriage proposal, according to Queerty’s October 29 report.

A surprise between photographs

Photo booths usually ask very little of the people inside: sit close, look towards the camera and be ready for the next picture.

For Dyllan, that was the apparent plan. Troy, however, had prepared a question that would give the next photograph a very different meaning.

After prompting his boyfriend to smile for the first image, he asked him to marry him for the second.

The appeal of the moment lies in that shift. Dyllan was expecting another photograph; instead, the camera recorded his reaction to a proposal.

It gives the couple something more personal than a posed engagement portrait: a record of the surprise itself.

A connection that began online

Troy and Dyllan began communicating online in 2019.

Both have individual social media accounts, alongside their shared account, where followers can keep up with them together.

The proposal brings their relationship into view through one small, memorable scene. Viewers do not need to know their earlier posts to understand what makes it moving.

One man has a plan. The other is discovering it in real time.

For gay viewers, there is also something familiar and welcome in seeing two men share such an affectionate milestone publicly, with the focus on their happiness.

The reaction reaches far beyond the booth

According to Queerty, the video received around 300,000 likes on Instagram and more than two million views on TikTok within its first 12 hours.

Those figures describe the response reported at that point, rather than the video’s current totals.

The scale of the attention is striking, but the scene would be just as meaningful without it. The important audience was already there: the boyfriend sitting beside Troy when he asked the question.

Now the footage lets others share a little of that joy, while the photographs preserve the moment for the couple themselves.

From an online conversation in 2019 to a proposal captured between photo booth pictures, Troy and Dyllan have given their followers a lovely reason to celebrate.

Congratulations to them both.

📷 @dyllanandtroy

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Beijing Queer Film Festival Cancelled After Reported Police Harassment

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Beijing Queer Film Festival Cancelled After Reported Police Harassment

International filmmakers had already travelled to China for the Beijing Queer Film Festival. Volunteers had helped sustain an event with a history stretching back to 2001. Audiences were preparing for a gathering centred on queer stories.

Then, on the evening before it was due to begin, it announced its cancellation.

The independent festival was scheduled to open on October 30. According to reporting by The Guardian’s senior China correspondent Amy Hawkins, the decision followed sustained harassment from authorities, including repeated police phone calls in recent weeks.

A cancellation announced the night before

In an Instagram statement posted late on October 29, organizers confirmed that the event, named in their announcement as Love Queer Film Week, had been cancelled.

They apologized to people who had planned to participate or had been looking forward to the programme.

The Guardian’s account of police pressure is separate from that public cancellation statement. The newspaper reported that Beijing’s public security bureau could not be reached for comment.

There is no announced replacement date in the report.

A space built around queer lives

Founded by a group of Peking University students in 2001, the festival became one of China’s oldest independent film events.

The Guardian describes it as the only film festival in mainland China offering a public forum for films and discussions exploring LGBTQ+ issues.

That role gives the cancellation significance beyond a lost programme of screenings. A festival also offers opportunities to meet other viewers, exchange experiences and encounter stories that may have little space elsewhere.

Hongwei Bao, a professor of Chinese studies at the University of St Andrews who focuses on LGBTQ+ issues, described the festival to the newspaper as “a beacon for LGBT resilience” in China.

He warned that its shutdown would have a chilling effect on the Chinese queer community.

Pressure on places to gather

Maya Wang, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, placed the cancellation in the context of tightening social and ideological control under Xi Jinping.

Speaking to The Guardian, she described overlapping pressures on civil society, LGBTQ+ communities and independent filmmakers — all of which meet at a queer film festival.

The newspaper also reported that LGBTQ+-themed screenings planned at Beijing’s Institut Français during Pride month in June had been cancelled because of police harassment.

These are separate events, but together they illustrate the shrinking opportunities for public screenings and discussion described in the report.

The willingness to participate remained

Despite those pressures, interest in the festival had continued.

Several international filmmakers whose work had been selected had travelled to China to take part. Last year, the festival received 200 volunteer applications, four times the number received in 2024.

Those details speak to the people behind the programme: filmmakers willing to travel and community members willing to give their time.

The cancellation stops this year’s gathering. It also leaves a visible reminder of the audience, enthusiasm and commitment that were waiting for it.

📷 AI / collage

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