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THE HISTORY OF HORROR IS GAY

It has s own cemetery full of queer bodi– the genre, stark parture om s ceptn, often relish the opportuny bury s gays. The Gothic tradn is really jt the Gay tradn.

Horat Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto om 1764 is largely accepted as the foundatnal example of gothic wrg, and ’s a story drippg wh homoeroticism. Other gothic thors like Matthew Lewis, William Thomas Beckford, and Francis Lathom were all homosexual, and their liv greatly impacted the lens through which they wrote their work.

QUEER FOR FEAR: THE HISTORY OF QUEER HORROR REVIEW: THE GAYT GENRE GAS A VAL DOCERI

Of urse, words like “homosexual” or “gay” are nowhere to be found their works, bee the words hadn’t yet even been vented. It wasn’t d, wasn’t subtextual-- was very, VERY gay. Murn ma Nosferatu spired by Stoker’s novel, and was notorly gay.

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