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Queers for Fears: Halloween horror movie video blog

That's right, folks: I, too, have hopped aboard the videoblogging bandwagon (although it's more of a haunted hayride in this case) for a Halloween horror movie special.

In this Queers for Fears spooktacular, my boyfriend Andy and I highlight a few fun horror flicks that have special places in the hearts and gizzards of gay fans and celebrate the upcoming holiday in the most traditional of fashions: by making total asses of ourselves.

Enjoy the bloody good time after the jump!

Humiliating horror movie pasts of some gay and gay-fave actors.
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Two Gay Guys New and Improved: The Gay Villain Edition

You'll notice that this week's Two Gay Guys vlog contains some fancy shmancy upgrades! Freed from the tyranny of being tied to our desktop computer, we actually shoot on location and use all kinds of lame fancy camera work! Alas, our acting skills are, well, you'll see.

Inspired by the coded gay subtext in the new western 3:10 to Yuma, Brent and I discuss Hollywood's long, ignoble history of using gay stereotypes and cliches to make villains that much more dastardly. And perhaps we reenact some clips from Brokeback Mountain along on the way. We're practically dead ringers for Heath and Jake after all. If you squint. And have vision that is 800/800. And glaucoma. Oh, shut up!


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Part two of our report on how the studios handle gay characters.

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