Why Do Gay Men Love Witches?🎃🎃

🏳‍🌈growing up, we see (via the kaleidoscopic lens of movies, music, books, and tv) that the nature of witchcraft is often likened to the unusual and demonic. The girls who exercise the craft also are often portrayed as each the fierce vixens of our nightmares and the fancy divas of our desires—so it most effective makes experience that a lot of queer enthusiasts have an a element for witches.
Be it American Horror story's Fiona Goode or the wacky Sanderson Sisters of Hocus Pocus, we’ve all met the ones gays who devotedly stan their fave magical queens. but why precisely do so many gay guys pick out with witches?
"On a non-public level, I suppose witches tend to be enticing due to the fact there's some thing grandiose about their presentation," gay horror actor and screenwriter Michael Varrati told pleasure approximately the homosexual appeal witches have on lovers. "it is empowered otherness and heightened presentation."
"when I consider characters like Anjelica Huston within the Witches, or Bette Midler in Hocus Pocus, there is a theatricality and camp enchantment, however additionally a lot more. there is aspect. It goes past mere diva worship. there's an underlying sense of rebel there. Witches, by way of proxy in their being, reject the norm...and in reality, draw electricity from that rejection. it is what makes them effective. I assume it really is kind of sexy.
much like the robust LGBTQ+ attraction to the horror genre, I assume gay men are attracted to the idea of witches and witch iconography because they may be representative of "otherness." it's frequently been remarked upon that horror is the genre of the outsider, and that is something with which queer people can inherently relate. I suppose with witches specifically, there's an additional +draw, because it's literally their otherness that gives a witch electricity. In a way, it's form of symbolic of the perception of "pride," taking that which units us aside from the mainstream and permitting it to present us strength. Witches additionally traditionally are people who've been ostracized for being who they are. I think there is a kinship and an expertise there. furthermore, they generally are simply fierce, first rate, and tasty characters. Who would not love that?"
"As a homosexual guy, I assume i am interested in witches because they had been persecuted for being who they had been/are," said pop culture aficionado and witch fanatic Daniel Plotner. "As we all recognize, that shame and fear of being born into "a position" or a "sexuality" that isn't your choice feels like a weakness or a curse. but, once you accept who you're and include it, it can end up your superpower."
at the same time as there’s some thing profound to be stated about each those observations in regards to the queer identity, what does an real witch have to say approximately homosexual men's love for magical ladies?
"though there are such a lot of stages of identity. humans regularly think of witches as ghastly bitches who forged spells on men to are trying to find vengeance. this is completely untrue. Witches are frequently protectors, the use of a mixture of mild and dark work to conjure their spells," says Matthew Kaufmann, a dedicated practitioner of Wicca. "Witches historically had been a marginalized organization that were wrongfully accused of crimes they have been harmless of. This rings proper to marginalized organizations of these days."
Kaufmann persisted:
"the worry of our specific and unique gifts with the aid of menial and time-honored (often times) men is what has made our spells work more potent and our want for network wider. They truely constitute a divine female electricity, one which battles the male patriarchy mounted in our modern times. I suppose homosexual guys are attracted to those powerful women because they're the direct counterpart to the effective guys who've ruined our lives. to peer a lady absolutely in price of her reality, power, and project offers us electricity to rise up for ourselves. It gives us permission to experience our femininity, and to use it in it is best electricity."
The most iconic depictions of witchcraft may additionally appear trivial to those who practice inside the international (homosexual or no longer), but regardless, the overall consensus of the bond between queer guys and witches falls into a category much like that of why we stan drag queens.
"although they're warted, green, furry-moled, humped, anything, they always have an air of confidence, and are rocking all black, which every person in style knows is THE style," said Kaufman. "Witches constitute the liberty from binding chains and the way to take strength returned. this is some thing that every gay man needs and craves after years of abuse, killing, harassment, and discretion."
regardless of what you think, if there is one thing to dispose of from all this, it is that magic, or sexuality, is not just a bunch of hocus pocus.