Turns out, Barbieland isn't as gay as s queer fans had hoped

Contents:

• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• WHAT DO CAMP MEAN IN GAY TERMS
• THIS AD IS BEG LLED THE “GAYT COMMERCIAL OF 2021”
• TOP 10 GAY CAMPGROUNDS AMERI
• ‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

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.

”"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.

WHAT DO CAMP MEAN IN GAY TERMS

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. Let me dim all the hoelights and return to my favore topic--mpy films that you absolutely have to experience orr to atta your gay rd.

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The mix of fashn show, tell-all, and Greek drama has long been irristible to gays, whose nervo lghs always turn to shrieks of horror.

Gay character actor Victor Buono is the outst who agre to play piano for Jane's eback, only to realize he's stepped to some very horrible sh. Anthony Perks is along for the ri as a crazed gay photographer (a real stretch), and the whole thg is so ridiculoly offensive, I've seen 5, 000 Conr... The Boys the Band (1970)Mart Crowley's landmark play about a bchy birthday party that turns extra ugly was an early look at gay men and their mararie and tts.

TOP 10 GAY CAMPGROUNDS AMERI

) The movie ptur the excellent stage st (pecially Leonard Frey as the wherg Harold and Cliff Gorman as the swishy Emory, aka Connie Casserole) and though thgs get icky, this was the perfect ment for s time, when gay men weren't afford the right to be reee. But still, gave Bette Midler her biggt star vehicle at that time, and most gays don't see anythg wrong wh .

Pablo Martez Monsivais/APA morn day mp classic, Tmp's munitns director Anthony Sramucci seems extraordarily attuned to gay stuff. There's also the fact that unrervedly gay ic Mar Cantone was chosen to portray him on Comedy Central right around the time Sramucci's wife was head for the ex. Whether they clu gay characters and them or are simply over-the-top, they hold a special place a gay film buff's (1985)The agels murr mystery board game to mpy life wh licly daft performanc by Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Male Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Mart Mull -- and Lley Ann Warren as Miss Rz (1976) In this gayer-than-gay sex farce, Jack Wton is on the n om a Mafia h man and his what he disvers is a gay bathhoe.

Max von Sydow has great fun as Mg the Mercils, and the film gets extra gay pots for s tle song, wrten and performed by Queen. David Hy Pierce is a hoot the type of prissy, proto-gay role played by Tony Randall the origal First Wiv Club (1996) The three great ic actrs of their time, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, and Goldie Hawn, star as recently dumped middle-aged wiv who nct masterful schem of revenge agast their ex-hbands -- wh the help of a gay rator and a lbian dghter. The huge st clus Sarah Jsi Parker, Maggie Smh, and Eileen Heckart fe ic Birdge (1996) Rob Williams and Nathan Lane brought gay mp and drag to the movie mastream director Mike Nichols's update of the 1978 French classic La Cage x Foll.

‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY

Gene Wilr and Peter Boyle lead a stellar ic st cludg Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, and the fabulo Male Kahn (who appears more films on this list than anyone else -- for good reason) & Out (1997) Kev Kle is hilar this spired farce about a small-town high school teacher who's outed as gay by an Osr-acceptg former stunt on the eve of his weddg. Gay wrer Pl Rudnick trots out every gay cliche known to man as Kle stggl to unrstand if he's actually gay or not. Male Kahn ma a spectacular screen but as an uptight fiancee, and the streets of San Francis provi a glor backdrop for the film's uproar chase Mame (1958) Rosald Rsell re-creat her Broadway role as the madp, inoclastic Auntie Mame, who's been a favore of gay fans ever sce gay wrer Patrick Dennis troduced her his 1955 novel.

"Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon.

PicturIn an terview wh Fandango, actor Kate McKnon, who is openly gay and plays “Weird Barbie” the film, said Barbie is about “imagatn. Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns. There are brief appearanc by Earrg Magic Ken and Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, both of which Mattel has always nied were tentnally gay-d.