Personal Attention Roleplay by H. Felix Chau Bradley

Two trans characters argue about this process. In the world of this story, people can, for a high price, clone themselves, uploading their consciousness into a new synthetic body with the exact physical characteristics that they desire. In these pieces, monstrosity is by turns flirty, heartbreaking, disgusting, humiliating, terrifying-and sometimes even freeing.Īndrew Wilmot’s “Glamour-Us” approaches the remaking of the self from a different vantage point it thinks deeply about gendered appearances and performances, through the lens of advanced technology. Its collected short stories and poems push back at and play with the concept of the queer monster or freak as a pop-culture stand-in for those who are marginalized by their inability and/or unwillingness to conform. It’s an unsettling and expansive anthology of queer horror, with a focus on monsters and monstrosity, assembling an exciting array of writers from Canada and the United States. Queer Little Nightmares, the new anthology of queer horror writing from Arsenal Pulp Press, out in October, makes a bouquet of compelling arguments for queer beastliness and depravity, as well as desire and connection, as imagined by queers themselves. It doesn’t have to be an either/or question. Should the tired “bad gay” character be abandoned, or does this lead to the opposite problem: overly sanitized portrayals of “good” queer characters whose decisions and actions end up skewing close to the straight-world values that queerness is supposed to subvert?

Much has been made of the stereotypical “ bad gay” in pop culture-the villainous, depraved, queer-coded characters who have populated movies since the days of the Hays Code, which banned all overt depictions of homosexuality on screen.

Personal Attention Roleplay by H. Felix Chau Bradley