The true gay agenda
This comic book character was confirmed as asexual in 2016, 75 years after his introduction
Jughead Jones
I'm beautiful in my way
'Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track, baby
Lad Gaga, Born This Way
This author penned both the iconic (and homoerotic) vampire novel Dracula and a rather long and rambling love letter to Walt Whitman.
Bram Stoker
This music-based euphemism originated on TikTok, and means sapphic
Listens to Girl in Red
This kids spy book, unsurprisingly, was written by a lesbian
Harriet the spy
I got the horses in the back
Horse tack is attached
Hat is matte black
Got the boots that's black to match
Lil Nas X, Old Town Road
The alternate universe/vampire version of this Buffy character prompted the sentence "and I think I'm a little gay" from her human counterpart
Vampire Willow
This phrase originated in 1969, out of a fear of lesbians harming the public's view of feminism
Lavender Menace
Arnold Lobel, a gay author, wrote this series about two charming amphibians
Frog and Toad
I'd like for you and I to go romancing
Say the word, your wish is my command
Ooh, love, ooh, loverboy
What're you doin' tonight, hey, boy?
Queen, Good Old Fashioned Loverboy
This book features the romance between Simon Snow, and his Vampiric roommate Basil Pitch
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (Wayward Son is also accepted)
Gay people in late 18th century Britain, referred to themselves as players of this board game.
Backgammon
This openly gay author wrote a series of kids books about a little girl (who is also a pig) with a lot of energy and many antics.
Ian Falconer, Olivia
Did you take him to the pier in Santa Monica
Forget to bring a jacket, wrap up in him 'cause you wanted to?
Curious, Hayley Kiyoko
This genre of books could slide under the radar of the strict media censorship of the 50s and 60s because they were considered trashy. They often featured vampires and lesbians, though not necessarily at the same time.
Pulp Novels
This once derogatory term for gay men, popular in the early 1900s, became an in-group term before fading out of use.
Fairy
This Finnish author would visit her lover via attic passageways before eventually building a house with her on an uninhabited island
Tove Jansson (author of the Moomin books)
Sometimes a mystery, sometimes I'm free
Depending on my mood or my attitude
Sometimes I wanna roll or stay at home
Walking contradiction, guess I'm factual and fiction
Janelle Monae, I like that
This novella was not only the first book about vampires, it also contained copious amounts of gay subtext.
Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan LeFanau
Gay men in the 40s and 50s referred to themselves as this synonym for moody
Temperamental