Editorials
Casting A Shadow: Poppy Z. Brite
Known professionally as Poppy Z. Brite, Billy Martin helped leave a lasting impression in the 1990s through the early 2000s with his works of horror that included gay and bisexual main characters, starting with Lost Souls. At a time where being openly gay wasn’t as accepted, Martin helped push the culture forward with these characters and stories, but the love of writing began far earlier.
The Demonisation of Queerness in High Tension (2003)
The medium of film is no stranger to the concept of queer coded or openly LGBTQ+ villains. And by extension, horror is no stranger to the concept either. Norman Bates in Psycho, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of The Lambs, Robert Elliot in Dressed to Kill and even Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw franchise, can all be said to exist as examples of how queer people, or at least the idea of queer identity, has been made out to be something monstrous…