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It mixes a curated tour of LGBTQIA+ themed horror films and series with childhood memories of being fascinated by fear and experiencing bullying due to difference. The piece traces how queer subtext appears across Hollywood history, from early classics to bolder late-20th-century statements, framing horror as a space where outcasts and outsiders find both catharsis and recognition.","Bannon Puckett  \n3  \n􀀩 Search Everywhere   \nAbout 2U 􀀡 Employee Resources 􀀡 Departments 􀀡 Locations 􀀡 News & Events 􀀡 \\#Lifeat2U 􀀡  \nHome 2Q Announcements 2Q Homepage Blog Posts  \n\\#Lifeat2U › Diversity, Equity & Inclusion › 2Q-The LGBTQIA+ Business Res… › 2Q Announcements ›  \nQueerness, Otherness & Horror Movies: Happy HallowQUEEN!  \n􀀢  \n􀀡 2Q Announcements 􀀡  \nPublished on October 30, 2022 | 54 views | 1 follower 􀀢  \nBannon Puckett | Senior Staff Writer | Corporate Communications (Strategy + Engagement)  \n\n| + Add an article | 􀀣 |\n| --- | --- |\n\nI love horror movies. I’m also gay. And those two things aren’t as odd of a combo as you might think. Take a quick tour through the history of queer horror—Hollywood’s and my own—and let me know what scary movies with LGBTQIA+ themes I’m missing in the comments below.  \n2Q  \nBusiness Resource Networks  \nDiversity & Inclusion  \nConfession: I. LOVE. HORROR MOVIES.  \nThis Halloween season alone, I’ve watched the following spooky flicks: Deadstream. Barbarian. Bodies Bodies Bodies. Terrifier 1 and 2. V/H/S/99. Speak  \nNo Evil. Halloween Ends. Ty West’s X. The Purge: Election Year. The Sadness. Significant Other. The Seed. Orphan: First Kill. Watcher. We Are Still Here.  \n13 Fanboy. Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker. B&B. Terrified. Pitchfork. The 2013 remake of The Evil Dead. The 2019 remake of Child’s Play. And this month’s brand-new remakes of Hellraiser and Terror Train. Plus, I’ve been binging scary TV series like Dahmer, The Watcher, The Midnight Club, and the newest season of American Horror Story. OMG, where will “Big Daddy” strike next?  \nBut wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. My first memory of seeing a “horror” movie was Deliverance. I was 3? 4? My family was in a hotel room somewhere and Deliverance came on TV. My dad angled the TV away from me and told me to stay on my side of the room so that I couldn’t see what was happening. But I kept pretending like I needed to go to the bathroom so that I could pass by and sneak a peek. Burt Reynolds being haunted by his drowned friend spooked and intrigued me at the same time.  \nOnce I hit sixth grade, my fascination with horror movies exploded. I secretly bought issues of Fangoria off the Waldenbooks magazine rack. On weekendsand all that summer, I’d sneak out of my room at midnight, tip-toe past my parents’ room, and watch all the scary Showtime “After Dark” offerings: Friday the 13th Part III. The Shining. Halloween III: Season of the Witch. The Thing. Squirm. Cujo. The Howling. The Fog. My Bloody Valentine. Creepshow. (I’m dating myself now lol.)  \nAround this same time, I was being picked on a lot by other kids. My dad was in the Army, so we moved around every two to three years. It was hard to make friends. Bullies once tied me up in a jump rope and rolled me down a hill, for example. Another time, a bully threw a dead, bloody snake around my neck. Kids would poke me with pencils in between classes. Outside of school, my parents separated and got back together multiple times. Dread was a constant for me growing up. How I remained a straight-A student through all that, I have no idea.  \nBut looking back, I see now I got bullied because I was “different” than the other boys. (Atthe time, I didn’t understand how exactly; I just thought I was overly sensitive to things.) That’s definitely a big reason why I enjoyed watching horror movies, where the mean teens similar to those picking on me in real life would get their comeuppance at the hands of Jason Vorhees, Leatherface, and Michael Myers. But it was also because a part of me could identify with these over-the-top fictional creatures—turned into the outcast “other”and pushed to vengeful extremes by cruel pranksters, unstable family units, and/or the pressures of society. I never remotely thought of going to those extremes, thank golly. 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