The horror genre has always attempted to bring audiences to the threshold of their fears and use a dark lens of the fantastic to force them to come face-to-face with issues the mainstream may otherwise dare not address. For those in the LGBTQIA+ community, this sense of otherness within the genre is not only terrifying and titillating, but it is often relatable. The queer community has had a long history with the horror genre, from the sapphic subtext of Gothic literature to modern fare such as Summoning Sylvia, T-Blockers, and The Boulet Brothers' Dragula. Does a queer horror genre exist, and, if so, what makes it different from mainstream horror? Furthermore, how does the current political climate alter the lens through which people celebrate and connect to the macabre? Prism Comics, moderator/screenwriter Michael Varrati (There's a Zombie Outside, The Midnight Mass Podcast), and panelists Drusilla Adeline (Bloodhaus Podcast, Sister Hyde Design), C.J. Arellano (Dry January, Griffica), Casey Gilly (Return to Sleepy Hollow, Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer), Daniel Montgomery (The Jessica Cabin), William O. Tyler (We Belong, Four Seasons of Fear), and Vander Von Odd (The Boulet Brothers Dragula, Scorch Marks) explore the current realms of queer horror.
