The origins of this particular case lie in a Netflix mistake. The difference here is now it’s gone mainstream and even straight people like it. The LGBTQ community has always played with iconography from the horror genre, and drag queens have delved into the creepy and unsettling for inspiration. It takes a firmly tongue in cheek approach to make one of horror’s most petrifying figures – an interdimensional being who eats kids and may or may not be the source of all evil in Derry – into essentially a drag queen. Obviously, a lot of this appropriation is heavily steeped in irony.
