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===LGBT influence=== Members of the [[LGBT community]] composed a large part of the ''Rocky Horror'' cult following: they identified with the embrace of [[sexual liberation]] and androgyny, and attended show after show, slowly forming a community. Judith A. Peraino compares Brad and Janet's initiation into Frank N. Furter's world to the self-discovery of "[[queer]] identity", and to the traditional initiation of "virgins" in the shadow screenings.<ref>{{cite book |last=Peraino |first=Judith A. |url=https://archive.org/details/listeningtosiren00pera |title=Listening to the sirens: musical technologies of queer identity from Homer to Hedwig |year=2006 |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-5202-1587-0 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/listeningtosiren00pera/page/n263 249]–252 |oclc=58043161 |url-access=limited}}</ref> June Thomas describes the midnight screenings in [[Newark, Delaware]] as a "very queer scene", which increased visibility for the [[LGBTQ]] community: "The folks standing in line outside the State in fishnets and makeup every Saturday night undoubtedly widened the sphere of possibilities for [[gender expression]] on Main Street."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Thomas |first=June |date=31 October 2014 |title=How The Rocky Horror Picture Show Smashed Open America's Closets |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/10/is-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-good-for-the-gays.html |magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=15 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Wong |first=Curtis M. |date=17 October 2018 |title=Why 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' Remains A Queer Cinematic Milestone |journal=[[HuffPost]] |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rocky-horror-picture-show-musical-matt-baume_us_5bc63c51e4b0a8f17ee6be26 |access-date=15 November 2018}}</ref> ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'' remains a cultural phenomenon in both the U.S. and U.K.<ref name="Smith2010">{{cite book |first=Justin |last=Smith |url=https://archive.org/details/withnailuscultfi0000smit/page/16/mode/2up?q=rocky+horror |title=Withnail and Us: Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema |date=28 February 2010 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn=978-0-85771-793-1 |page=32 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2004">{{cite book |first=Betty Jo |last=Tucker |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O8V3Fc8eAUIC&pg=PA139 |title=Susan Sarandon: A True Maverick |year=2004 |publisher=Wheatmark, Inc. |isbn=978-1-58736-300-9 |page=139}}</ref> Cult film participants are often people on the fringe of society who find connection and community at the screenings,<ref name="Lippy2006">{{cite book |last=Lippy |first=Charles H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwim_0xE1c4C&pg=RA2-PA112 |title=Faith in America: Changes, Challenges, New Directions |date=2006 |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |isbn=978-0-275-98605-6 |location=Westport, Connecticut |page=112}}</ref> although the film attracts fans of differing backgrounds all over the world.<ref name="Blackshaw2013">{{Cite book |last=Blackshaw |first=Tony |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UXO_tKMgNPcC&pg=PA117 |title=Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies |date=18 July 2013 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-136-49559-5 |location=London |page=117}}</ref> "Bisexuality, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Me", by Elizabeth Reba Weise, is part of the publication, ''[[Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out]]'' (1991), an [[anthology]] edited by [[Loraine Hutchins]] and [[Lani Kaʻahumanu]]<ref name="Fox2013">{{cite book |last=Fox |first=Ronald |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ZsLGE3zBwgC&pg=PT178 |title=Current Research on Bisexuality |date=3 April 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-56963-0 |editor-last=Hutchins |editor-first=Loraine |editor-link=Loraine Hutchins |location=London |page=178 |editor-last2=Kaʻahumanu |editor-first2=Lani |editor-link2=Lani Kaʻahumanu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Highleyman |first=Liz A. |title=A Brief History of the Bisexual Movement |url=http://www.biresource.org/pamphlets/history.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926225244/http://www.biresource.org/pamphlets/history.html |archive-date=26 September 2007 |access-date=23 July 2016 |website=[[Bisexual Resource Center]]}}</ref> about the history of the modern [[bisexual rights]] movement that is one of the first publications of [[bisexual literature]].<ref name="Burleson2014">{{cite book |last=Burleson |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jg5IAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT189 |title=Bi America: Myths, Truths, and Struggles of an Invisible Community |date=4 April 2014 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |isbn=978-1-317-71260-2 |location=London |page=189}}</ref>
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