Episode 298: Queer Horror with BJ & Harmony Colangelo

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

It's eve of Halloween (or "All Hallows' Eve-Eve"), and so it seemed appropriate to do an episode all about QUEER HORROR! When writer and film analyst BJ Colangelo was first on the pod back in March of 2022, we scratched the surface of the indelible link between queerness and the horror genre. Now, in honor of spooky season, BJ is back with her wife Harmony for an exhaustive deep dive! The Wives Colangelo (TM) discuss how, when it comes to horror, "the absolute building blocks and foundational texts of the genre are either made by queer people, or they are queer stories." It's an episode full of revelations (Chucky has a non-binary kid?! Hellraiser is based on gay S&M clubs?!) and controversial hot takes! Whether you're a horror aficionado or, like Lauren, you only ever watch the smooching scene compilations on YouTube, it's a thoroughly delightful and absolutely fascinating episode about how our community SLAYS the horror genre (#halloweenpuns). Listen...IF YOU DARE!!

Check out BJ's writing at /Film (SlashFilm) and follow her everywhere at @bjcolangelo, follow Harmony on Twitter and Instagram at @veloci_trap_tor, and purchase "Sleepaway Camp" through DieDieBooks or digitally at Amazon! Also listen to This Ends at Prom wherever you get your podcasts, and follow @ThisEndsAtProm on all platforms.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome to the spooky Halloween episode of Coming Out Pod. I am your spooky host,
0:17.6	Lauren. I'm so excited about this episode. I wanted to do a special episode because I realized that, so Halloween's on a Thursday this year, if you're listening to this, when it comes out, it is, it is Eve of Halloween. I don't know if that's a thing, but yeah, it's a day before Halloween. And I was like, I should do a thematic episode.
0:39.1	But before we jump into it, okay, I'm also doing a thematic queer root shout out.
0:44.5	Shout out to you if your queer root is the 1995 live action Casper movie.
0:52.7	This is a big one for some people because it's 15-year-old Christina
0:57.4	Ricci and 17-year-old Devonsawa as not the voice of Casper, but the visual manifestation
1:03.9	of Casper. So many young folks had queer awakening seeing this movie. Also, many women who later went on to realize
1:13.7	that they were actually lesbians initially young Devon saw. We've had this discussion on the
1:19.9	podcast many times, but just like young Leo DiCaprio and many others of that ilk is like a very
1:26.0	good starter boy crush if you then eventually
1:28.9	realize like oh that wasn't i i see what that was uh so yeah shout out to you if either baby
1:36.3	christian rich your baby devonsawa and casper stirred some queer ghostly or the ghost i don't want
1:43.2	to judge maybe you thought cgai casper was hot i don't
1:46.9	know anyway check out the movie casper uh y'all okay so this is like half redux episode but not really
1:55.5	uh but what i mean is that i have two guests today uh one of whom has previously been on the podcast. I am here with
2:04.1	BJ and Harmony Calangelo, aka the Wives, Calangelo. Hi, welcome to both of you. Hello.
2:12.5	Hi. This is so thrilling. So for those who maybe are newer to the podcast or maybe you don't listen to every single episode,
2:23.4	BJ was on all the way back in March of 2022.
2:28.6	It's episode 191.
2:30.9	BJ tells her coming out story.
2:34.0	And we, I honestly, if you haven't heard that episode,
2:37.6	pause this one now. Go back, listen to the first like 10, 15 minutes of B.J. Solo episode
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