The Haunted Haus Ball: Where Shadows Werk
Schedule
Fri, 31 Oct, 2025 at 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
The Desmond Hotel Albany | Colonie, NY
In Our Own Voices, Unity Through Diversity Conference 2025 presents: THE HAUNTED HAUS BALL: WHERE SHADOWS WERK
Save The Date: Oct. 31, 2025 | 9 PM - 12 AM| Albany, NY @ The Desmond Hotel Albany
This year's Halloween Ball, which takes place during our biennial BIPOC LGBTQ+ Health Conference, will serve looks, legends, and liberation! All Categories are Cash! More details to come soon!
Categories:
✨ FACE
Description: "The Veil Has Lifted: Vampire Bride Realness"
Serve veil couture and undead radiance. At the climax of your walk, lift the veil and give the judges eternal beauty. Bring it soft, sinister, and supernatural.
👽 BIZARRE
Description: "Welcome to the Haunted Haus"
Terrify us, seduce us, confuse us. Present a Bizarre group (or solo if you're that girl) look as if you're the centerpiece in a haunted mansion installation. Sexiest, scariest, or most surreal, haunt the panel.
🕊️ VIRGIN VOGUE PERFORMANCE
Description: "Voguing Beyond the Grave"
Virgin Vogue is for those who are new to voguing and want to show their performance skills on the floor. Bring it ghouly, ghastly, give us “Boo! I’m A Ghost B*!. Give us haunted innocence, possessed precision, and that ethereal energy that says, “I’ve arrived.”
🧛 FQ PERFORMANCE
Description: "Dark Femme Rising"
Fem Queen performance in your best villainess or otherworldly vixen. Channel the femme fatale who slays the ballroom and the undead.
🩸 RUNWAY
Description: "Final Girl or Villain? Horror Film Couture"
Bring your best interpretation of a horror movie villain or survivor. We want fashion: elevated, twisted, and full of story. From Freddy to Midsommar to something entirely original.
🕷️ EXECUTIVE REALNESS (Transman)
Description: "Out of the New Orleans Night"
Can you pass among the living... or will the hunger of their blood be too much? Bring it as Louie & Lestat Executive (Interview With a Vampire). Show us how bloodthirsty bosses are supposed to come out at night.
🖐🏽OTA HAND PERFORMANCE
Description: "Wicked Fingertips"
Claw, glide, slash, serve. Bring witch fingers, gloves, or adorned hands with eerie excellence. Think drag meets dragula meets mysticism.
🧷 COM VS. COM
Description: "Safe Hex: Battle of the Haunted Condoms"
Two houses. One safe sex message. Present a short themed moment (30-60 seconds) highlighting kink, horror, and consent culture. Bring props, bring condoms, bring a message with a point.
🧵 OTA FASHION
Description: "Kink Couture With a Message"
Bring fashion that incorporates kink wear (harnesses, latex, leather) but also speaks to a deeper theme: freedom, safety, protest, survival. Werk with purpose.
🔥 SINNERS’ LOOK - Community Best Dressed Spectator
Description: "Seven Deadly Looks"
Choose your sin and embody it. Lust, Wrath, Pride, give us glamour and grotesque, temptation and terror.
