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), a time when we rve pumpks, gobls and ghouls e out to play, people drs up and everyone’s gay… Well not everyone, but some people are.

The movie follows a group of gay iends as they’re stalked and killed on Halloween night by a hunky killer wearg only a mask and workout tights – bee if you’re gonna kill people you might as well look hot while dog , right?

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But ltle do we know, turns out that the hunky Mch is gay and has a boyiend.

Mch is the first openly gay character a mastream animated movie.

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What mak his character so tertg (asi om the prev pot which is, you know, kda of a huge al) is the way the creators alt wh him beg gay.

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But unlike many other movi that have siar “you would have never gused he’s gay” characters, where there is a big moment “reveal” and the closeted gay jock out (and ually gets killed right after, if ’s a horror), Mch never out. ” the dience fd out he’s gay. Although technilly has no openly gay characters, the whole movie is packed wh bizarre homoerotic referenc.

Ray is the stereotypil closeted gay/bisexual jock.

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