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