It Came From The Closet | Joe Vallese"Horror 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's complicated. Haunted houses, forbidden desires and the monstrous can have striking resonance for those who've been marginalised. But the genre's murky history of an alarmingly heterosexual male gaze, queer coded villains and sometimes blatant homophobia,

Getting closer to his desires

Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century

When their relationship is brutally cut short

What did the bars mean to them

and it's a big problem

If you've ever been on a night out where you got blackout drunk and have laughed the next day as your friends tell you all the stupid stuff you said

a young reporter with high ideals sent to cover the story

fascinating insight into the forces that mould and affect modern women

who gets hold of a treasure map and sets off with an adult crew in search of the buried treasure

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one's birth-assigned gender

Until enough was enough

hope-filled