When thinking about the historical and traditional symbols of heteronormative male culture, two main things come to mind; women and cars. Cars are such an essential...
Formed in 1969, The Cockettes were a San Francisco-based avant-garde theater troupe whose penchant for psychedelic satire quickly garnered them a cult following that spread far...
It’s a hard time to be a trans person. Not only do we have to sift through the identities projected upon us to discover our true...
Representation matters. Everyone needs to see themselves reflected in the art they consume, especially people from marginalized groups. Seeing queer people in horror movies helps to...
[Author’s Note: This particular piece largely focuses on cis gay men specifically, though there are a variety of people in the broader queer community with relationships...
The science fiction horror film Alien, directed by Ridley Scott and based on the screenplay by Dan O’Bannon, explores themes of sex, gender, the creation of...
Vampira and Elvira were not friends. Maila Nurmi, known primarily as Vampira, the original horror hostess of the 1950s, was a complicated, enigmatic, and profound woman....
When consuming media, there is a common phenomenon that should be familiar to anyone who registers anywhere even remotely fun on the Kinsey scale. Two characters...
Some musicians actively strive to be the ones brought up in every conversation and fought for in every debate. Some of them even succeed. That some...
TW: sexual assault, mutilation, molestation Spoilers ahead. In 1991, Courtney Love dove into a pulsating crowd after finishing a set with her band, Hole. “I just...
