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From Mediterranea Inferno to Baldur's Gate 3: the queer ecstasy of monster-loving

Hello! Eurogamer is once again marking Pride with another week of features celebrating the intersection of LGBTQIA+ cul…

One bright Thursday morning, I walked into class and asked my NYU graduate students what they'd thought of the movie I'd recently assigned, FW Murnau's classic 1920's German silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror. In 2021, in this very series of Pride-themed articles, Dr Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston discussed- paying particular attention to Resident Evil Village's beloved and gigantic Lady Dimitrescu - how queer folks reframe, recontextualize, and reconstruct monsters in media in order to find characters with whom to identify. In Avery Alder's influential tabletop roleplaying game Monsterhearts 2, in which players take on drama-fuelled teenage monsters in high school, the rules tell us that "we don't get to decide what turns us on, or who" - which here could be a violent werewolf, a frigid vampire, or a voracious ghoul of any gender, regardless of your character's notions of their own sexuality.

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