Gay Ambassador Ruf Gifford: Ameri’s First Handshake!

Contents:

• GAY AMBASSADOR RUF GIFFORD: AMERI’S FIRST HANDSHAKE!
• VOTE FOR ME BECAUSE I’M GAY — NOT SPE OF IT
• RUF WAWRIGHT ON JUDY GARLAND AT 100 AND WHY SHE’S THE ULTIMATE GAY IN
• BIN PICKS GAY FORMER AMBASSADOR RUF GIFFORD FOR PRTIG POSN AS CHIEF OF PROTOL
• RUF WAWRIGHT COM AROUND ON GAY MARRIAGE

GAY AMBASSADOR RUF GIFFORD: AMERI’S FIRST HANDSHAKE!

Horror films haven’t always been kd to gay characters, though LGBTQ viewers mata a wonrfully unique relatnship wh the genre. There are a number of petg theori as to what’s behd this spe-tglg love affair — om intifyg wh the “otherns” of monsters to the lan subtexts of early works — but perhaps ’s jt an appreciatn for the fe art of non of queer horror tl has been slowly buildg over the past several s, aid by a number of recent die films that twist tradnal homophobic horror trop and a body of classic films that are beg re-read through a ntemporary queer there are many to choose om, here are 19 queer horror films to put toward the top of your watchlist for “Gay Christmas, ” otherwise known as Halloween.

”In this slasher film, lbian uple Renee and Valerie leave the big cy to go to a ral b to attend a weddg-planng retreat for their iends, a gay uple.

VOTE FOR ME BECAUSE I’M GAY — NOT SPE OF IT

The getaway be a leral retreat, as they are hunted, surveilled and tortured by a group of homophobic extremists. ”A year after gay Brooklyn, New York, party boy Danny is btally attacked by a stranger, he cis to give his social life another chance.

RUF WAWRIGHT ON JUDY GARLAND AT 100 AND WHY SHE’S THE ULTIMATE GAY IN

”Gay Londoners Marc and Fred went to war when they were refed a double bed at a remote Christian gut hoe. ”“Hellbent” was the first horror film aimed at gay dienc to succsfully break out of the film ftival circu. It me plete wh openly gay lead characters, drag queens and a scythe-wieldg maniac workout tights and a vil mask.

Not before long, you fd yourself lookg around the room, wonrg whether you’re projectg your gayns to the plot or if this is ed meant to read as gay. Rt assured that wh scen of leather bars, locker rooms and male scream queens — is pretty gay. Dpe leang on the homophobic horror trope of "gay man as killer, " the ntroversial film is worth a watch as a cultural time psule.

Shot New York’s S&M bars and clubs and featurg the actual clientele as extras, “Cisg” provis an trigug glimpse to a pre-AIDS world of gay sex and sctn.

BIN PICKS GAY FORMER AMBASSADOR RUF GIFFORD FOR PRTIG POSN AS CHIEF OF PROTOL

”Cema’s most prolific director of psychologil thrillers, Aled Hchck, never shied om employg gay stereotyp — a knife-wieldg killer who cross-drs as his ad mother “Psycho, ” a stylish psychopath who lur a wi-eyed athlete “Strangers on a Tra. ” But never was a Hchck film as homoerotic as “Rope.

"I thk about the fact that so many gay women and men were not allowed to have posns like this the State Department for so long, " he said. And I also thk about the fact that there have been many before me who paved the way, cludg Jam Hormel, who as ambassador to Luxembourg unr Print Clton was the first openly gay ambassador.

RUF WAWRIGHT COM AROUND ON GAY MARRIAGE

The State Department’s openly gay chief of protol on Monday announced he is leavg his post.