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Joe Vallese is editor of It Came From The Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror and co-editor of the anthology What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour Through New Jersey. His creative and pop culture writing appears in BOMB, VICE, Backstage, PopMatters, Southeast Review, North American Review, Narrative Northeast, VIA: Voices in Italian-Americana, among others. He has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and a notable in Best American Essays for his essay “Blood, Brothers.” He is currently clinical associate professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University, and previously served as site director and faculty for the Bard Prison Initiative. Joe holds an MFA New York University, and MAT and BA degrees from Bard College.

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Average rating: 4.18 · 4,123 ratings · 818 reviews ·2 distinct works •Similar authors

	It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror 4.18 avg rating — 4,099 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What's Your Exit?: A Literary Detour Through New Jersey by Joe Vallese(Goodreads Author), Susanne Antonetta, Jackie Corley(Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is, understandably, considered gauche to describe bisexuality as transitory, almost as gauche as the word “bisexual” itself. Perhaps it would be better to think of bisexuality as queerly universal—stem cells potent with potential. As long as compulsive heteronormativity exists, queer people will pass through bisexuality at some point, however briefly. Some tear through it on a speedboat, heading for a more monosexual harbor, others circle, content, drinking aperitifs in the sun.”
― Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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“It also isn’t lost on me that these films’ emphases on lesbianism reinforce the fact that queerness in mainstream horror is permissible as long as it’s determined by and filtered through the male gaze.”
― Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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“Prohibition feeds desire”
― Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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