Queer Horror: Film and Television – Sexuality and Masculinity at the Margins

Darren Elliott-Smith examines the complications resulting from "queer appropriations of horror conventions". In considering the apprehensions that ensue when gay men experience "judgement by heteronormative standards" that are inherent in the horror genre, Elliott-Smith argues that "these anxieties encourage a homonormative apeing of heterosexual culture which, in turn, feeds further anxieties surrounding the cultural conflation of gay masculinity with a shameful femininity."