Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat?! We've got you covered!  It's our best loved time of the year! Any excuse to get dressed up kinda spooky works for us! But our favourite bit of the season's ghostly activities is hiding behind the cushions and daring to watch all the deliciously dark horror films!
 
Horror and LGBTQ+ have always been intertwined, although queer characters and storylines have usually been scarce, there are a few shining stars, and we here at GV have sat through them and have helpfully compiled a Top 3 of the more recent queer friendly pioneers. So snuggle up, grab your popcorn and get that cushion ready to hide behind... 
 
Check out our staff picks of what to wear this spooky season at the end!

 

Bit
 
Released to huge acclaim, Bit stars Supergirl’s Nicole Maines as a transgender teen girl who moves in with bro (James Paxton) in Los Angeles, attempting a new life after her transition. She quickly falls in with a coven of four queer feminist vampires whose mission is to rid the city’s dark streets of evil, predatory men. It’s probably THE most inclusive LGBTQ+ scary flick of recent years, allowing a transgender character to take the protagonist's role without conforming to any usual unhelpful queer tropes. A must -see if vampy-feminist horror is your bag!
 
 
Fear Street
The scary movie genre received a welcomed queer makeover last year with Leigh Janiak’s blockbuster Fear Street trilogy. Based on R. L. Stine’s much loved teen novels of the same name, it stars Kiana Madeira and Olivia Scott Welch as Deena and Sam, secret lesbian lovers who find they have to escape an ancient curse that has haunted their hometown of Shadyside for centuries. It was entertaining with good characterization but above all it's Madeira and Welch’s groundbreaking romance that was stood out and was praised at the time by critics and viewers due, partly to the severe lack of mainstream LGBTQ+ representation in the horror genre today.
 
 
The Perfection
  
Star of Get Out and Girls, Allison Williams returns to the horror genre as the talented but somewhat unsettled cellist Charlotte, who journeys to Shanghai to reunite with her one-time mentor Anton (Steven Weber). There, she meets Lizzie (Logan Browning), another of Anton’s students with whom she begins a sexual relationship. The two then travel together across rural China and what follows is unadulterated horror! The Perfection is not for the faint-hearted so if that's you, you may want to bring an extra cushion...
 
 
Staff Picks
 
AUTHENTIC NIKE ORANGE LONGLINE LIGHTWEIGHT JACKET
 
Y2K ORANGE LONG SLEEVE VARSITY BOMBER JACKET
 
Y2K ORANGE V NECK LONG SLEEVE SPORTS JERSEY
 
BLACK DISTRESSED AFFLICTION SHORT SLEEVED ROUND NECK REGULAR FIT T-SHIRT
 
Y2K BURNT ORANGE EMBROIDERED FLORAL SLEEVELESS VEST
 
70'S ORANGE/WHITE ARGYLE CASUAL FIT SWEATER VEST
 
VINTAGE ORANGE SHORT SLEEVES SHIRT
 
ORANGE SHIRT WITH FLORAL PRINT