HORROR subverts social norms centers outsider identities mirrors societal fears & anxieties
Queer for Fear Live! blends scholarly analysis with live performance in a mix of academic insights, personal anecdotes, queer friendship, audience participation, and drag performance, all while highlighting the key themes from the book Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator.
Drag legend Peaches Christ and scholar Dr. Heather O. Petrocelli have created an engaging, thought-provoking, and entertaining show that not only educates audiences, but also celebrates queer friendship, queer culture, and the queer love of horror.
Invite the community at your university to join these queer culture-makers for a conversation that spans queer culture, art, and history. Queer for Fear Live! will facilitate a better understanding of the queer relationship to horror film and the role of drag artists in galvanizing queer community—at the same time this event makes a space for queer community to gather and connect around film.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator, the debut book of Dr. Heather O. Petrocelli, analyzes the relationship queer people have to horror film. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary empirical study of the LGBTQ+ community not only offers the first inclusive understanding of the horror-loving queer spectator’s opinions, habits and tastes, but also evidences how and why queers have a distinctive relationship to horror. This work also establishes that queer spectators actively engage with horror to work through their trauma, knowingly have a camp relationship to horror, and joyously commune through horror screenings featuring drag performance.
