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To mark Gay Christmas, we’ve llected some of the most inic queer horror movi to watch this Halloween om the mp stylgs of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as well as newer entri such as They/Them and Hellraiser. Dpe not featurg any openly queer characters, bee queer people were extct the 80s, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge is one of the mpt horror films history wh homoerotic scen leather bars and locker rooms, as well as sweaty shirtls men tryg to pe the wrath of Freddy’s perfectly manicured talons (see photo above). Starrg Tom Bateman (Behd Her Ey) and Sean Beale, B&B follows a gay uple who were turned away om a bed-and-breakfast due to the fundamentalist Christian owner’s (Pl McGann) archaic relig views.
This unrrated slasher flick follows a serial killer on a missn to butcher the entire gay muny.
Hellbent first premiered durg gay and lbian film ftivals 2004 and 2005 and has been creded wh sparkg a wave of “gay slasher” films. It’s homoerotic as hell and has been ced as a major fluence on var works the Gothic subgenre.
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Hunter Killian (Brian Raetz) returns home to Michigan wh the support of his iends New York to e out as gay to his disapprovg nservative father. One uld argue that Ltat and Louis are an early example of a gay uple adoptg a child Anne Rice’s Interview Wh the Vampire, but that’s about as close as we got wh popular vampire media. Billy Mart has opted to keep his nom plume post-transn, and I n’t help but wonr if intifyg as a gay man even before his transn helped to create a feelg of normalcy wh his characters that I eply need.
To celebrate this tone queer visibily, we looked back over the past three s and round up the 30 most inic LGBTQ characters TV history, om loveable gay uple Mchell and Cameron to trans trailblazers like Sophia Burset. Disney Channel seri Andi Mack ma history last year when featured s first ever openly gay character on the work. After the episo aired, the show was renewed for one more season but was subsequently ncelled for beg “too gay”.
Even though Jack McFarland’s character has received a mixed receptn for perpetuatg gay stereotyp, he’s one of the longt nng and most inic queer characters on televisn, appearg ten seasons and 188 episos of Will & Grace to date. He was the first gay man to kiss another man on work TV, and was one of the only ma gay characters on our screens the 90s. Mark Inlito has gone on rerd to say that he received a lot of fan mail for his portrayal, wh young gay kids ‘thankg’ him bee they’d never seen themselv reprented on televisn before.