Transgender
“Hellraiser” villain Pinhead wasn’t originally male & has always been queer
Hellraiser features transgender actress Jamie Clayton as the film’s iconic villain Pinhead.Some fans worried about a woman playing a male villain, especially since the role was first made iconic by male actor Doug Bradley. But the 1986 novella that Hellraiser was based on, entitled The Hellbound Heart, actually depicted Pinhead as somewhat androgynous, a fact that the film and its many sequels seemingly forgot.The 1987 Hellraiser and The Hellbound Heart both show the cenobites, an order of mutilated hell priests who are summoned to Earth through a mysterious puzzle box known as The Lemarchand Configuration.