Sean aka Gay of the Dead
@gayofthedead.bsky.social
A total queer 🏳️🌈 Horror journo who primarily writes abt LGBTQ content / filmmakers. Bylines: Fangoria, Second Sight
Book: QUEER HORROR: A FILM GUIDE
Patreon: GAY OF THE DEAD: CONVERSATIONS W/LGBTQ FILMMAKERS WORKING IN HORROR.
www.patreon.com/gayofthedead
Book: QUEER HORROR: A FILM GUIDE
Patreon: GAY OF THE DEAD: CONVERSATIONS W/LGBTQ FILMMAKERS WORKING IN HORROR.
www.patreon.com/gayofthedead
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It's Christmas! And the perfect gift is an autographed, discounted copy of Queer Horror: A Film Guide!
#christmas #booksky #queerhorror #Igbtq
#horrormovie
#christmas #booksky #queerhorror #Igbtq
#horrormovie
Unboxing my pal @sheilakathleen.bsky.social new book, the official companion to @realgdt.bsky.social FRANKENSTEIN
@netflix.com #frankensteingdt #horrormovie #frankenstein
@netflix.com #frankensteingdt #horrormovie #frankenstein
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Unboxing my pal @sheilakathleen.bsky.social new book, the official companion to @realgdt.bsky.social FRANKENSTEIN
@netflix.com #frankensteingdt #horrormovie #frankenstein
@netflix.com #frankensteingdt #horrormovie #frankenstein
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
Seated for MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG musical movie thing!
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Seated for MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG musical movie thing!
Just FYI it was 80° today in Los Angeles.
December 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just FYI it was 80° today in Los Angeles.
What I would give for a break up diss album that included one track - just one - where the musical artist copped to the fact that maybe, just maybe, there was the teeniest tiniest chance that they also sucked at being a good partner (and not because their partner's behavior "forced" them to be.)
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
What I would give for a break up diss album that included one track - just one - where the musical artist copped to the fact that maybe, just maybe, there was the teeniest tiniest chance that they also sucked at being a good partner (and not because their partner's behavior "forced" them to be.)
Let’s talk about how to properly steal a jeweled egg…
December 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Let’s talk about how to properly steal a jeweled egg…
Unboxing this mystery box! (Thanks @paramountscares.com !)
December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Unboxing this mystery box! (Thanks @paramountscares.com !)
Was clearing screenshots off my phone. I’d forgotten about this, but it’s completely legit. (And from over a year ago…)
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Was clearing screenshots off my phone. I’d forgotten about this, but it’s completely legit. (And from over a year ago…)
It should not be as easy as it is to buy shoes at midnight from your bed.
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It should not be as easy as it is to buy shoes at midnight from your bed.
Unpackaging important historical documents!
Thank you, Clive Barker 🖤
#queerhorror #horrormovie #clivebarker
#LGBTQ #writersoftiktok
Thank you, Clive Barker 🖤
#queerhorror #horrormovie #clivebarker
#LGBTQ #writersoftiktok
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Unpackaging important historical documents!
Thank you, Clive Barker 🖤
#queerhorror #horrormovie #clivebarker
#LGBTQ #writersoftiktok
Thank you, Clive Barker 🖤
#queerhorror #horrormovie #clivebarker
#LGBTQ #writersoftiktok
Of course I'm talking about Avatar here, but in my opinion the biggest offenders are the indie queer cinema cheerleaders who feel every queer film is required viewing homework for the gays. Hard pass for me on teenage coming out stories (for instance).
There’s an interesting thing that happens when a big cultural event film is released. If that film doesn’t interest you based on the trailers, there’s a chorus of people that insist you have to watch the film before you can come to that conclusion.
No.
No film is owed my eyeballs.
#avatar
No.
No film is owed my eyeballs.
#avatar
December 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Of course I'm talking about Avatar here, but in my opinion the biggest offenders are the indie queer cinema cheerleaders who feel every queer film is required viewing homework for the gays. Hard pass for me on teenage coming out stories (for instance).
There’s an interesting thing that happens when a big cultural event film is released. If that film doesn’t interest you based on the trailers, there’s a chorus of people that insist you have to watch the film before you can come to that conclusion.
No.
No film is owed my eyeballs.
#avatar
No.
No film is owed my eyeballs.
#avatar
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
There’s an interesting thing that happens when a big cultural event film is released. If that film doesn’t interest you based on the trailers, there’s a chorus of people that insist you have to watch the film before you can come to that conclusion.
No.
No film is owed my eyeballs.
#avatar
No.
No film is owed my eyeballs.
#avatar
(When I was writing more screenplays) “I have this great idea for a screenplay. Do you wanna work on it with me?”
(As a horror journalist) “Why won’t [EDITOR’S NAME] hire me to write for [MAGAZINE]?”
Answers: No, but I’ll read it when you’re done.
I don’t know.
(As a horror journalist) “Why won’t [EDITOR’S NAME] hire me to write for [MAGAZINE]?”
Answers: No, but I’ll read it when you’re done.
I don’t know.
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
(When I was writing more screenplays) “I have this great idea for a screenplay. Do you wanna work on it with me?”
(As a horror journalist) “Why won’t [EDITOR’S NAME] hire me to write for [MAGAZINE]?”
Answers: No, but I’ll read it when you’re done.
I don’t know.
(As a horror journalist) “Why won’t [EDITOR’S NAME] hire me to write for [MAGAZINE]?”
Answers: No, but I’ll read it when you’re done.
I don’t know.
Introduce yourself with five books you’ve said more than once you “really should read one day” but still haven’t:
-Every Stephen King book after Insomnia
-The Year of Magical Thinking
-Salt Fat Acid Heat
-Frankenstein
-Tie: In Cold Blood/The Naked Civil Servant
-Every Stephen King book after Insomnia
-The Year of Magical Thinking
-Salt Fat Acid Heat
-Frankenstein
-Tie: In Cold Blood/The Naked Civil Servant
Introduce yourself with five books you’ve said more than once you “really should read one day” but still haven’t:
The Silmarillion
Streets of Laredo
Kindred
Book of the New Sun
The Color Purple
The Silmarillion
Streets of Laredo
Kindred
Book of the New Sun
The Color Purple
Introduce yourself with five books you’ve said more than once that you “really should read one day” but still haven’t:
-The Three Musketeers
-The Brothers Karamazov
-The Sound and the Fury
-Cane
-The Left Hand of Darkness
#BookSky #LiteratureSky
-The Three Musketeers
-The Brothers Karamazov
-The Sound and the Fury
-Cane
-The Left Hand of Darkness
#BookSky #LiteratureSky
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Introduce yourself with five books you’ve said more than once you “really should read one day” but still haven’t:
-Every Stephen King book after Insomnia
-The Year of Magical Thinking
-Salt Fat Acid Heat
-Frankenstein
-Tie: In Cold Blood/The Naked Civil Servant
-Every Stephen King book after Insomnia
-The Year of Magical Thinking
-Salt Fat Acid Heat
-Frankenstein
-Tie: In Cold Blood/The Naked Civil Servant
I wish my editor would publish more pieces like this. Until then, please enjoy @philnobilejr.bsky.social 's hot take on Bond death!
When you say “Bond tropes,” people will think of
Sexy women
Drinks
International travel
Megalomaniacal villains
Etc. But the Bond trope that really resonates, which is baked into Fleming’s novels and seeps into almost every movie?
Death.
Let’s get into it. 🧵
Sexy women
Drinks
International travel
Megalomaniacal villains
Etc. But the Bond trope that really resonates, which is baked into Fleming’s novels and seeps into almost every movie?
Death.
Let’s get into it. 🧵
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I wish my editor would publish more pieces like this. Until then, please enjoy @philnobilejr.bsky.social 's hot take on Bond death!
Many thanks to @angiefsutton.com for taking the time during Los Angeles Comic Con to chat about queer horror stuff!
thegeekiary.com/la-comic-con...
thegeekiary.com/la-comic-con...
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Many thanks to @angiefsutton.com for taking the time during Los Angeles Comic Con to chat about queer horror stuff!
thegeekiary.com/la-comic-con...
thegeekiary.com/la-comic-con...
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Wicked as one film has all the weaknesses of the stage musical, and a few unique to the film. The most puzzling flaw is the concept - in a land where magic is real, animals talk, and fantastical things happen on the daily, why is green skin greeted with such shocked disbelief? 1/
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Wicked as one film has all the weaknesses of the stage musical, and a few unique to the film. The most puzzling flaw is the concept - in a land where magic is real, animals talk, and fantastical things happen on the daily, why is green skin greeted with such shocked disbelief? 1/
I would love to be shilling physical media releases that I have essays on next Black Friday! I’m putting this out to the universe now :-) Only 368 days until next Christmas (2026).
(I have a couple in the pipeline currently, but I would really love to be doing more)
(I have a couple in the pipeline currently, but I would really love to be doing more)
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I would love to be shilling physical media releases that I have essays on next Black Friday! I’m putting this out to the universe now :-) Only 368 days until next Christmas (2026).
(I have a couple in the pipeline currently, but I would really love to be doing more)
(I have a couple in the pipeline currently, but I would really love to be doing more)
I don't have any physical media to hawk for Black Friday (hopefully that will change soon...) BUT I do have three (3) of these Pridezilla shirts left:
One (1) XS
Two (2) M
$30, includes shipping, makes a great gift for XS and M people
One (1) XS
Two (2) M
$30, includes shipping, makes a great gift for XS and M people
Want a Pridezilla T-shirt? (Godzilla +
Pride = Pridezilla) Because I don't have enough to do, I made a dozen of these and if you want one DM me and we'll work it out. $30. Cotton, “men’s” cut. I have:
One (1) XS
Two (2) each of
S
M
XXL
(L and XL-sold out)
Pride = Pridezilla) Because I don't have enough to do, I made a dozen of these and if you want one DM me and we'll work it out. $30. Cotton, “men’s” cut. I have:
One (1) XS
Two (2) each of
S
M
XXL
(L and XL-sold out)
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I don't have any physical media to hawk for Black Friday (hopefully that will change soon...) BUT I do have three (3) of these Pridezilla shirts left:
One (1) XS
Two (2) M
$30, includes shipping, makes a great gift for XS and M people
One (1) XS
Two (2) M
$30, includes shipping, makes a great gift for XS and M people
Welcome to Los Angeles where we go to the gym on Thanksgiving.
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Welcome to Los Angeles where we go to the gym on Thanksgiving.
There’s this thing where the people who get to see advanced screenings go hard on a movie, flooding social media w/negative takes
then those of us who watch it regular style look like uneducated film dummies if we post abt how much we like it a week later.
That being said I enjoyed WICKED Part 2.
then those of us who watch it regular style look like uneducated film dummies if we post abt how much we like it a week later.
That being said I enjoyed WICKED Part 2.
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
There’s this thing where the people who get to see advanced screenings go hard on a movie, flooding social media w/negative takes
then those of us who watch it regular style look like uneducated film dummies if we post abt how much we like it a week later.
That being said I enjoyed WICKED Part 2.
then those of us who watch it regular style look like uneducated film dummies if we post abt how much we like it a week later.
That being said I enjoyed WICKED Part 2.
Unboxing Joe Castro' Terror Toons
Quadrilogy and more!
Buy art directly from the artist! #terrortoons #joecastro #queerhorror #horrormovie #independentfilm
Quadrilogy and more!
Buy art directly from the artist! #terrortoons #joecastro #queerhorror #horrormovie #independentfilm
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Unboxing Joe Castro' Terror Toons
Quadrilogy and more!
Buy art directly from the artist! #terrortoons #joecastro #queerhorror #horrormovie #independentfilm
Quadrilogy and more!
Buy art directly from the artist! #terrortoons #joecastro #queerhorror #horrormovie #independentfilm
@fangoria.bsky.social ‘s Frankenstein Special Issue! @mereborders.bsky.social and @jasonkauz.bsky.social have created a gorgeous monster!
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
@fangoria.bsky.social ‘s Frankenstein Special Issue! @mereborders.bsky.social and @jasonkauz.bsky.social have created a gorgeous monster!
It's crazy to me that men's egos are so fragile that we have to rebrand short guys as "kings" so they can get thru a day.
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It's crazy to me that men's egos are so fragile that we have to rebrand short guys as "kings" so they can get thru a day.