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let's be real: the best horror films are queer horror films.

let's be real: the best horror films are queer horror films.

The horror genre has been low-key gay since its founding. And there are some very good reasons why.

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Oct 11, 2020
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Well, here we are folks! It’s National Coming Out Day and we’re at the height of one of the spookiest spooky seasons of all time (pandemics and crises of democracy are pretty terrifying). I can’t imagine a more appropriate moment to talk queer horror.

Horror, at its best, has always been queer. According to Jay Jenkins, who is behind Valancourt Books, a …

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