We’ve decided to investigate the intersection of two very different queer films released this June; Adrian Chiarella’s homophobia horror Leviticus and Hayley Kiyoko’s transmedia bildungsroman Girls Like Girls.

With both these releases we will be analyzing how frameworks provided by genre can be used in very different ways to explore identity and queerness - and how both horror and the coming of age genre has historically been well placed to do so. With this we will be looking at the lycanthropic cult classic of CanCon horror Ginger Snaps (2000) while also touching on Julia Ducournau’s full throttle cvntfest Titane (2021). The generic framework of Celine Sciamma’s genderqueer coming of age masterpiece Tomboy (2011) will also get the full BooF treatment.