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IS CLIVE BARKER’S ‘NIGHTBREED’ A “GAY HORROR FANTASY EPIC”?
Barker has been openly gay sce givg a terview Advote magaze the early 1990s. In 2003, Barker received The Davidson/Valenti Award at the 15th GLAAD Media Awards, prented "to an openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr dividual who has ma a signifint difference promotg equal rights for any of those muni".
Barker has also been volved producg films, most notably Hellraiser and the gay-themed Gods and Monsters, for which Ian McKellen was nomated for an Amy Award. ↑ The Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) Web Se. Barker is an openly gay man.
He won a GLAAD Media Award 2004, and uld be argued that his sexualy unrps all of his work, thereby makg Hellraiser a part of gay culture. Barker's sexual orientatn beme well-known 1996 when he published Sacrament, his first novel wh a gay protagonist, although Barker says that 's never been a secret: "I have done readgs at gay bookstor throughout the world sce my first book was published. And I never nsired my homosexualy an issue.