Gay Christmas is coming: All the spooky queer entertainment to look forward to this Halloween season
big deal for us. Aside from the excuse to wear ridiculous outfits in public, it’s also the perfect time to cozy up on the couch to watch some frightening film favorites, camp classics, and anything that falls into the large middle of the Venn Diagram where those two intersect.And we’re excited to report that there’s an awful lot of future favorites on the way, with some queer and queer-adjacent spooky movies and television series dropping over the next few months.To help you keep track, we’ve assembled a special trailer round-up of all the notable Halloween-season treats to help you have a very Merry Scary Gay Christmas this year.For so many gays, Hocus Pocus is Halloween.
Yes, this millennial favorite put a spell on us back in 1993, with its trio of bewitching performances and its giddy blend of the magical and the macabre.
Perhaps that’s why fans have been calling for a sequel for what feels like centuries. Well, now they’re getting their wish as Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy all return to play the Sanderson Sisters, back to haunt and delight us with their witchy ways.
And this time, they’re bringing drag queens!Streams September 30 exclusively on Disney+.Related: Bette Midler is single-handedly tanking ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ with her tweets and OMFG what a disasterBased on Grady Hendrix’s acclaimed novel, this eerie tale of friendship blends ’80s nostalgia with satanic panic for a one-of-a-kind horror-comedy.
