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Amerin Horror Story has never been gayer than s new season, AHS:NYC, epomised by Patti Lupone sgg "Fever" to gays a sna.

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THE HISTORY OF HORROR IS GAY

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.

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It wasn’t d, wasn’t subtextual-- was very, VERY gay. Murn ma Nosferatu spired by Stoker’s novel, and was notorly gay.

The director of Universal’s Frankenste, Jam Whale, lived as an openly gay man throughout his reer, and livered the wrg of Bri of Frankenste’s Dr. Septim Pretori, a licly fabulo gay character played by the famoly queer Ernt Thiger.

Director Tod Browng has been scribed as an “alleged heterosexual, ” and both of his films Dracula and Freaks are drippg wh homosexual subtext. On the ntrary, those that refe to see a queer story unls featur a giant rotatg voice-over screamg “THIS IS GAY” jt prove that if someone has grown up always seeg themself and their stori reprented on screen, they’ve never had to velop the abily to headnon intifiable visibily. When It: Chapter 2 me out 2019, I noted that I found funny that fans were discredg Richie Tozier’s gay subtext while stumed wearg the same shirt as Jse Nightmare on Elm Street 2.

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Dpe this blatantly visible queer dg, angry fans sent me ath threats for tryg to “ph the gay agenda onto horror. Their anger is clearly rooted the fear of enjoyg somethg that uld be perceived as gay—an immeasurably ironic realy and further proof as to why we ll homophobia.

It’s impossible to ph a gay agenda a horror film, bee horror films have always been More:. Get ready to wer abject terror unr your blankets this tumn — but like, a gay way.

Quto, who publicly me out as gay 2011, prevly appeared the Murr Hoe and Asylum seasons, wng multiple awards for his portrayals of both murrer and also played Louis Ironson the 2010 Broadway revival of the inic play Angels Ameri, makg pecially appropriate that he should appear this season of AHS alongsi Joe Mantello, who played the role the show’s 1993 Broadway but. Mantello, turn, was also a member of the 2018 Broadway st of The Boys the Band alongsi risg gay star Charlie Carver, who has also been nfirmed for AHS season 11 via an on-set kiss wh star Isaac Cole Powell, lately of Wt Si eleventh season of AHS will also reportedly feature bi edian Sandra Bernhard, a llaborator of Murphy’s who recently played Nurse Judy Kubrak on the FX h Pose. Sure, she’s not gay, but the Tony and Grammy wner is a gay favore who has prevly appeared the Murphyverse AHS season 3 as well as Pose and tails about AHS season 11’s plot have been revealed, but set photos dite the show may take place around the 1970s-80s, the same general time perd as Murphy’s Stud 54: Amerin Crime Story, which is also productn.

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Amerin Horror Story has never been gayer than s new season AHS:NYC, epomised by Patti Lupone sgg “Fever” to gays a sna. It’s not often that a headle has to be repeated, but jt for clary: Broadway in Patti LuPone sang “Fever” by Peggy Lee to a room full of naked gay men dog what naked gay men tend to do while a bathhoe.

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