Contents:
- THE HISTORY OF HORROR IS GAY
- QUEER FOR FEAR: THE HISTORY OF QUEER HORROR REVIEW: THE GAYT GENRE GAS A VAL DOCERI
THE HISTORY OF HORROR IS GAY
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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.
Of urse, words like “homosexual” or “gay” are nowhere to be found their works, bee the words hadn’t yet even been vented.
QUEER FOR FEAR: THE HISTORY OF QUEER HORROR REVIEW: THE GAYT GENRE GAS A VAL DOCERI
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Septim Pretori, a licly fabulo gay character played by the famoly queer Ernt Thiger. Director Tod Browng has been scribed as an “alleged heterosexual, ” and both of his films Dracula and Freaks are drippg wh homosexual subtext. On the ntrary, those that refe to see a queer story unls featur a giant rotatg voice-over screamg “THIS IS GAY” jt prove that if someone has grown up always seeg themself and their stori reprented on screen, they’ve never had to velop the abily to headnon intifiable visibily.
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