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  "path": "/2026/film/features/leviticus-queer-horror-movie-gay-rights-regression-1236780772/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-19T17:35:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "“Leviticus” was born from a place of anxiety. It’s perhaps a bit obvious, given the premise. In the film that opens in theaters Friday, the first feature-length project from writer-director Adrian Chiarella, two teen boys in Australia fall in love, but after a dark, religious conversion therapy, they’re pursued by demonic forces that look like […]",
  "title": "‘Leviticus’: How the Romantic Horror Movie Was Inspired by a ‘Regression’ of Gay Rights"
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