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It Came From the Closet : Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese
�?oHorror opened me up to new possibilities for survival �?� I saw power in freakery and transgression and wondered if it could be mine.�??The relationship between horror films and the LGBTQ+ community? It�?Ts complicated. Haunted houses, forbidden desires and the monstrous can have striking resonance for those who�?Tve been marginalised. But the genre�?Ts murky history of an alarmingly heterosexual male gaze, queer-coded villains and sometimes blatant homophobia, is impossible to overlook. Ther