From Nosferatu to A Nightmare on Elm Street, LGBTQ+ viewers have long tected a queer unrtone many horror films. Now the genre is brgg s gay subtext to the surface
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- BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
- ‘THE BLACKENG’ STAR DEWAYNE PERKS ON HIS GAY HORROR SPOOF CHARACTER AND MG HIS COMG-OUT STORY FOR COMEDY
BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
The spookit, and gayt, time of year is here! * queer horror characters *
Unlike the LGBTQ slasher They/Them and almost every sgle queer character on The Walkg Dead where they seem to be ntug the "kills the gays" trope, some horror movi and shows let their queer characters she. At first, Jake Wheeler is outsted for beg gay and owng a creepy Good Guy doll, but throughout Season 1, Jake slowly starts beg accepted for exactly who he is and fds both a iend and a love tert his fellow classmate Devon. It may not be at the foreont of the film, but the hunky jock Mch Downe appears openly gay one scene where he says, "You're gonna love my boyiend.
" While 's the only ditn of the character's sexualy, the scene acted as a groundbreakg moment for animatn wh the genre's first openly gay character. While Hellbent may kill off most of s gay characters, also happened to be the very first slasher film to star gay characters and get a theatril release the Uned Stat wh s 2004 premiere. The openly gay Eddie leads the film along wh his group of LGBTQ iends who are stalked by a killer on Halloween night, and while the villa lled Devil Mask may not be high on the list of notable killers, he may jt be the first queer one.
Before homosexualy was formally legislated out of existence Hollywood by the Productn Co — monly referred to as the Hays Co, which tablished mandat for “moral standards” motn pictur and banned pictns of “sexual perversy” — the legendary filmmaker Jam Whale was buildg the foundatn for Amerin genre cema wh films like Frankenste, The Old Dark Hoe, and The Invisible Man. Here was Whale, a gay man, buildg horror his own image and havg astoundg box office succs as some groups were lobbyg Hollywood to censor queerns out of existence.
‘THE BLACKENG’ STAR DEWAYNE PERKS ON HIS GAY HORROR SPOOF CHARACTER AND MG HIS COMG-OUT STORY FOR COMEDY
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