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THE HISTORY OF HORROR IS GAY
And wele to a not-so-special-after-all edn of Horrible Histori: the Big Gay Episo! I say ‘gay’, but I don’t mean happy--I mean ‘ncerned wh people who enjoy relatnships wh others of the same sex’. Even if you hear an awful lot on the street, ‘gay’ wasn’t ed to scribe homosexualy until the early twentieth century.
There are plenty of people throughout history who we, today, would scribe as gay, but they didn’t thk of themselv that way at all. Philippe of Orleans, though an avowed homosexual--as close to “out” as anyone really got, those days--managed to buck up and father several children on his supposedly ugly bri!
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.