Episode #75
Why Assume Everyone's Gay Until Proven Otherwise? | Apollyon | The Queer Vision Ep. 75
★WHERE YOU CAN FIND APOLLYON★ Drag Instagram - @apollyonghoul Personal Instagram - @awheelerofficial Film company - Murder Associates Productions (search on YouTube; audio dramas on Spotify) ★WHERE YOU CAN FIND US★ Website - www.queerolina.org Facebook - Queerolina Instagram - @queerolinaorg BlueSky - queerolinaorg.bsky.social ★Summary★ Becca sits down with Apollyon (they/them off-stage) — a drag performer, pole dancer, incoming pharmacy student, and co-owner of queer horror production company Murder Associates Productions. They talk about how disability (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, autism, and dysautonomia) has shaped Apollyon's career choices, from neuroscience to public health to pharmacy school, and how drag became an unexpected space of bodily autonomy and gender freedom as a genderqueer, trans, AFAB performer who loves femininity without being read as a woman. The conversation moves into horror as a genre uniquely built for social commentary — using films like Carrie and The Haunting of Hill House to talk about media literacy, empathy-building, and getting away from "bury your gays" trauma-porn representation. Apollyon also shares their filmmaking philosophy of building explicitly queer stories from the ground up, plus their work in tabletop RPGs, indie horror publishing, and Boulet Brothers' Dragula fandom. ★Keywords★ Queer Vision Podcast, Queerolina, Apollyon, drag performer, genderqueer, trans, AFAB, disability, chronic illness, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, autism, dysautonomia, pole dance, horror film, indie filmmaking, queer horror, Murder Associates Productions, Dragula, media literacy, bury your gays, LGBTQ podcast