You have to have sharp claws, almost like Freddie Krueger, the famous villain from ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ to dissect, frame by frame, each and every one of the references to the LGTBIQ + collective in horror movies. Precisely, no one has shouted as much as the protagonist of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street 2’, Jesse Walsh (played by actor Mark Patton). They have dubbed this the most “gay” horror movie.
“The film was born as a clearly homosexual allegory. The screenwriter made a deliberate story set in gay spaces, shot in friendly venues “, Javier Parra, author of the book ‘Scream Queer’, a work that analyzes all those representations of what is called ‘queer’ on celluloid, has explained to laSexta. But how to identify it?
“We find it in coded characters, homophobic jokes or the sexualization of LGTBIQ + women, always done in the eyes of the directors, who are men, “Parra has denounced. Cinema and censorship associated ‘queer’ with the perversion and depravity of certain characters or the monstrosity of others.
This is the case of movies like Frankenstein. “Two men creating life without the need for a woman gives a bit of subtext to understand that there is talk of a homoparental family“said the author of ‘Scream Queer’. There are hundreds of examples, some more veiled, such as bisexual and ‘mannered’ vampires, and others more explicit.
“I am nothing but a sweet transsexual transvestite from Transylvania,” they sing, for example, in ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’, yet another sample of the glam aesthetic. And of transvestism, like the one in ‘Psychosis’; also, criminals with gender dysphoria, like Buffalo Bill in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. “Unfortunately, what has predominated the most is the negative cliché,” said Parra.
But it’s not always like this. “Luckily, we meet LGTBIQ characters in the movies whose sexual orientation is not relevant to the plots“Parra concluded. It is only a matter of knowing that the difference is in the nuances.
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