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Before homosexualy was formally legislated out of existence Hollywood by the Productn Co — monly referred to as the Hays Co, which tablished mandat for “moral standards” motn pictur and banned pictns of “sexual perversy” — the legendary filmmaker Jam Whale was buildg the foundatn for Amerin genre cema wh films like Frankenste, The Old Dark Hoe, and The Invisible Man. Here was Whale, a gay man, buildg horror his own image and havg astoundg box office succs as some groups were lobbyg Hollywood to censor queerns out of existence.

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While some earlier films do clu overtly gay them, thgs went unrground durg the Hays Co era, and the reverberatns of that subversive queerns rema uful to this day. Here are 31 of the most famoly queer and homoerotic horror films. Some of the movi center on explicly gay terror, while others only feature LGBTQ characters.

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A tan of classic horror, gay filmmaker Jam Whale wove queerns to most of his films, which clu the origal “Frankenste” and “The Invisible Man.

” All his films see Whale stg gay actors and playg up queer them var ways. But as wh so much of Hchck, ’s hard to say that this is an outright homophobic visn, pecially when the script has the souciance of Osr Wil: “Before this day is out I fear we’ll hear that terribly old-fashned but que exprsive term ‘foul play, ’” Sanrs says, all while munchg on a chicken leg.

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Is he gay, and his mother a homophobe whose prence his life he n’t pe? ” The remarkable thg about all this is that Hchck mak you intify wh Perks (who was gay and closeted real life) as much as he did Marn Crane herself, to the pot that, as Hchck often did at his perverse bt, you’re kda rootg for him. A prolific and succsful horror fictn wrer who began directg to adapt his work himself, out gay filmmaker Clive Barker is rponsible for two of the films on this list, “Nightbreed” and “Hellraiser.

Though didn’t spawn any sequels, “Nightbreed” was more crilly embraced than “Hellraiser” and is nsired a direct metaphor for gay activism. “In many ways, ‘Interview’ is the most mercially succsful gay film of all time, and most dienc didn’t even realize they were seeg a gay film.

In fact, ’s so beloved by queer women that ’s hard to believe there is virtually nothg explicly gay about “The Craft.

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Takg the token gay iend to his rightfully sensual ends, her roommate Adrien luxuriat his sexualy, brgg boys home and flntg the pleasur of the flh that seem so out of reach to the raveno Jte. For 2019’s “Midnight Kiss, ” a sexy gay slasher set amongst a group of LA gay iends on New Year’s Eve, Blumhoe tapped out gay talent — wrer Erlgur Thoroddsen and director Carter Smh, who also hired all queer actors for the queer rol. " A masked maniac is stalkg the habants of a gay nversn therapy mp They/Them (out Augt 5), the directorial but om Gladiator and The Aviator screenwrer John Logan.

Former child actor Brian Falduto says that he wasn’t able to e out until his senr year of llege bee of the stggl he faced after beg dubbed “the gay kid” om “School of Rock. “I was so much nial [about my sexualy growg up], ” he said on the “Cooper and Anthony Show, ” “Thk about : I was the fifth gra when this movie me out and I was lled gay, and then someone told me that’s not ol, so I was jt like, ‘Oh, ok, then I’m not gay’. “So I was nyg before I even had a notn of what [beg gay] was, ” he told rad hosts Cooper Lawrence and Anthony Michaels.

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Child star stggled to e out after playg 'the gay kid' 'School of Rock' .

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