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Contents:

• ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE
• INTERVIEW WH A VAMPIRE REBOOT WILL EMBRACE THE BOOKS' GAY SUBTEXT
• WATCH: ‘INTERVIEW WH A VAMPIRE’ IS FALLY AS GAY AS WE’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE NEW SERI
• INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE IS BEG REMA BUT MORE GAY
• INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE FALLY HS SCREENS AND ’S GAY AS HELL: ‘I’M EMOTNALLY VASTATED’
• ‘INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE’ GETS IT’S GAYT TREATMENT YET
• 'INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE' IS BLACKER AND GAYER THAN EVER — AND IT FEELS JT RIGHT
• 'INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE' IS A BRILLIANT GAY FEVER DREAM

ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE

While she will first and foremost be remembered as an inic wrer of gothic horror — most notably for her Vampire Chronicl seri — her advocy for LGBTQ rights and steadfast support of her enthiastic, gay fan base would bee an sential part of her legacy. Her son, Christopher Rice, who is gay and is himself an acplished wrer, shared the news of his mother’s passg on her Facebook page. ” 'I have a gay sensibily'Rice wrote the first and most famo book the Vampire Chronicl seri, “Interview Wh the Vampire, ” 1976.

At the time, she was mourng the loss of her 5-year-old dghter, Michele, one of her two children wh poet Stan the book failed to imprs crics, beme an immediate mercial succs, large part bee of s populary among gay rears. François Duhamel / Sygma via Getty ImagIn an terview wh The Daily Beast 2017, Rice said she was “very honored” that people thought “Interview Wh the Vampire” — which was adapted to a film 1994 starrg Tom Cise and Brad Pt and is currently velopment as a TV seri — was a gay allegory. She then said, “I’ve always been very much a champn of gay rights, and art produced by gay people.

INTERVIEW WH A VAMPIRE REBOOT WILL EMBRACE THE BOOKS' GAY SUBTEXT

“I thk I have a gay sensibily and I feel like I’m gay, bee I’ve always transcend genr, and I’ve always seen love as transcendg genr, ” she said the 2017 terview, regardg the pervasivens of queer characters her wrg. ”'Fear Ameri'Rice’s ti to the LGBTQ muny were epened and ma more personal when Christopher me out as gay after graduatg om high Advote ran a ver story about Christopher 2000, which he said he thought his mother took his g out harr than his father did, bee of what he perceived as her havg a stronger sire, relative to his father’s, to have grandchildren someday.

For her part, Rice said that she was “shocked” by the revelatn, bee she “thought he was straight, ” and that she worried about him havg to face difficulti due to homophobia, but said his g out didn’t dimish her love for him.

“People rpond very different ways to what beg gay means. She also told NPR that the church’s stance on gay marriage was a key factor her cisn: “I didn’t anticipate at the begng that the U.

WATCH: ‘INTERVIEW WH A VAMPIRE’ IS FALLY AS GAY AS WE’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE NEW SERI

Bishops were gog to e out agast same-sex marriage … that they were actually gog to donate money to feat the civil rights of homosexuals the secular society. “At the time I was a navigatg difficult terrory of genr and sexualy, and she was the first person I me out to as gay, ” Fairchild said the piece.

INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE IS BEG REMA BUT MORE GAY

The upg Interview wh a Vampire TV seri, a reboot of Anne Rice's cult-classic novels, will clu the origal books' gay subtext. The upg Interview wh the Vampire TV seri will lean to the origal books' gay subtext.

INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE FALLY HS SCREENS AND ’S GAY AS HELL: ‘I’M EMOTNALLY VASTATED’

Durg the Interview wh the Vampire panel at SDCC, which Screen Rant attend, Jon says that the show will embrace the gay subtext of Rice's origal novel.

While the film adaptatn didn't dive to Ltat and Louis' queerns, the gay subtext between the characters still very much remaed, spe beg somewhat ambiguo. If Jon' ments on the show's gay subtext are any ditn, this eratn of Interview wh the Vampire will be an thentic, unashamedly queer love letter to Rice's work. Vampir and homo-eroticism have long gone hand--hand.

‘INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE’ GETS IT’S GAYT TREATMENT YET

There’s no mistakg the homoerotic subtext between the three male leads: Ltat is clearly love wh Louis. Gay. When Interview wh the Vampire was released cemas 1994, dienc for the most part pletely missed the glarg homoeroticism and queer subtext.

As if that wasn’t queer enough, Interview wh the Vampire also has plenty of scen of very homoerotic bloodsuckg.

'INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE' IS BLACKER AND GAYER THAN EVER — AND IT FEELS JT RIGHT

It’s worth notg that Anne Rice herself knew jt how subversive the text’s implic queerns was – and she worried s homoerotic leangs would stop Interview wh the Vampire om ever makg to the big screen.

'INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE' IS A BRILLIANT GAY FEVER DREAM

When she sat down to wre the screenplay, Rice famoly nsired rewrg Louis as a woman, fearg that Hollywood’s graed homophobia would stop the film om beg ma. In the end, Pt was st as Louis and the film went ahead wh much of s homoeroticism tact – even if had to be cloaked subtext to keep straight dienc engaged. Dpe s homoerotic them, Interview wh the Vampire was an stant h – even if crics were polarised.