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Contents:
- WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
- WHY HALLOWEEN IS ‘GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
The spookit, and gayt, time of year is here! * halloween lgbt *
"Merrie cherryAn extravaganza of the supernatural, all thgs sweet and larger-than-life stum, many LGBTQ Amerins like Roberts hail Halloween as "gay Christmas. " But the ntemporary excement around the supernatural holiday has a long history wh the LGBTQ morn phrase "gay Christmas" actually stems om an earlier queer nickname for the holiday, "bch Christmas, " acrdg to Marc Ste, a profsor of history at San Francis State Universy, and thor of "Cy of Sisterly and Brotherly Lov.
"Durg the 1950s and '60s, Philalphia's LGBTQ muny celebrated "bch Christmas" by drsg up drag and partyg the cy's gay bars, Ste said.
"Followg the wave of LGBTQ activism and visibily sparked by the 1969 Stonewall rts, more formal versns of queer Halloween celebratns began poppg up "gayborhoods" around the untry. " As a gay man, he scribed Halloween as one of the only tim a year growg up when he was not "ostracized or punished or cricized for havg the flamboyant, creative tennci. A rare slasher film wh a group of entirely openly gay characters, Hellbent is an outlier of s time that’s also a fe example of a story wh queer protagonists that go beyond the tradnal “g-out” narrative.
WHY HALLOWEEN IS ‘GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
Long before June beme Gay Pri Month and October beme Comg Out Month, Halloween was unofficially the LGBTQ+ muny's yearly celebrated "holiday." * halloween lgbt *
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Historilly, horror films haven’t always been kd to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people, though many members of the muny mata a wonrfully unique relatnship wh the genre. Thankfully, the non of queer horror tl has been slowly buildg over the past several s, aid by a number of recent die films that prrize cln and twist some of the character trop followed strictly more mastream there are many to choose om, here are 11 queer horror films to put toward the top of your watchlist for "Gay Christmas" — otherwise known as Halloween.
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”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.
”A gay New Yorker brgs a group of his iends to his hometown, where he plans to e out to his ultra-nservative father. 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.
Sprkle a ltle David Bowie on the top, and you’ve got a thoroughly enjoyable, albe light on plot, queer vampire Sk I Live In (2011)Sony PicturFamed gay director, screenwrer and producer Pedro Almodóvar elevat the body terror genre wh a tale that chronicl the weird dynamic between a plastic surgeon, played by Anton Banras, and the woman he keeps locked away his lavish mansn. 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.