Anne Rice and her homoerotic vampir left an immortal mark on gay culture

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'Interview wh the Vampire' will see a new televisn adaptatn and s the gayt eratn of an Anne Rice work yet.

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

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Not unlike the way I uld’ve sworn that “Berensta Bears” was spelled wh a third “e, ” I totally believed that prev rnatns of Interview wh the Vampire — both Anne Rice’s origal 1976 novel and the 1994 movie adaptatn — were explicly about gay vampir. But more than that, they seemed to embody the ethos “be gay, do crime, ” a not-always-so-leral exhortatn to live a queer life fiance. But the homoeroticism was all subtext.

AMC’s Interview wh the Vampire, an updated, grisly, and often mordantly hilar retellg of the origal story pulls gay subtext to the ma text, givg a fancy vampire lookg for a longtime pann. And tellg their story, Interview creat an embolned mentary about how sexualy, race, inty, power, and opprsn are all tertwed, and how the forc have throughout Amerin history left the magnificently queer vampir (and many others) wh no choice but to be extremely gay and do so, so many crim. In Interview wh the Vampire, gay vampir get lonely, too.

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

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Logilly, gay vampir make a ton of sense.

Vampir don’t partake racism, sexism, and homophobia bee all of humany is beneath them, let alone humany’s awful hangups.

A QUEER PERSPECTIVE: GAY THEM THE FILM "INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE"

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But vampir probably, as Ltat also monstrat, aren’t gog to let racism or homophobia gui their sire. It’s hard for some of them to prehend the ia of two men together — not unlike the way history turns gay and lbian lovers to “roommat” or “bt iends. Come to thk of , Interview is a lot like Frasier, a show that’s also about two sufferable gay men whose fancy tast annoy and threaten the people around them.

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

There are a growg number of mastream films and televisn shows which clu gay characters or same-sex fai as central figur: A Sgle Man, The Kids Are Alright, Will & Grace, Mad Men, Two and a Half Men, and Morn Fay. This this sets out to terme if the film Interview wh the Vampire, which preced the above named films and televisn shows by more than five years, is a ce of queer cema that foc on gay them while proposg a same-sex fay. In uplg Seymour Chatman's rhetoril theory of narrative fictn - lerature and film wh Harry Benshoff and Sean Griff's theory of Queer Cema, the study foc on lotg and cg specific stanc where gay them of inty and intifitn along wh the theme of the same-sex fay emerge. The study utiliz the novel Interview wh the Vampire by Ann Rice as a cril touchstone and draws om Roland Barth' ncept of "Rhetoric of the Image" to evaluate the strength of the them found wh the adapted film Interview wh the Vampire. The rearch fds several exampl of the re-prentatn of dividual gay liv and unvers evince of a cematic reprentatn of a same-sex fay. The rearcher nclus that while the film Interview wh the Vampire is certaly an example of queer cema, also prents a same-sex fay un that may be the first of s kd. * interview with a vampire gay theme *

If they found out he was gay, his life would be danger. When Ltat shows up, all fancy and charmg and gay, his offer of vampiric immortaly is much more than an eternal life of queer pannship. Be gay, do crim!

Part of me hope Louis, who is a 100-year-old queer vampire, got to hear Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” on a dance floor full of flagrant homosexuals. Daniel isn’t gay.

It turns out that beg a gay vampire and dog crime isn’t ial, but allows Louis to be closer to who he tly is — much more than the human world would ever allow him to be.

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

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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.

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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. 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.

Speakg to The Daily Beast  2016, she said she was “honoured” when people told her that Interview wh the Vampire reads as a gay allegory. “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.

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“In my books, I’ve always created bonds of love that have transcend genr… I’ve always been very much a champn of gay rights, and art produced by gay people – whether was the early Frankenste movi that had such a gay sensibily to them, or any art created by gay people.

INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE IS BEG REMA BUT MORE GAY

I have a gay sensibily. She add: “I get teased a lot by my gay iends bee we have a rapport on thgs we fd excg or tertg. Vampir and homo-eroticism have long gone hand--hand.

There’s no mistakg the homoerotic subtext between the three male leads: Ltat is clearly love wh Louis.

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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.

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.

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

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. AMC has dropped s new TV adaptatn of Interview wh the Vampire based on the novel by Anne Rice and ’s gay as hell. Unlike Pt and Cise’s versn of the story, the new seri is unapologetic s queerns wh enough gay vampire hbands ntent to please all the vyg fans.

Oh 's gay gay#terviewwhthevampire. Certaly back 2000, Rice addrsed the homoerotic vib her work an terview: “It’s important to me as a wrer to let everythg e spontaneoly and not thk too much about . “I don’t s down and thk, ‘I’m gog to wre about gay characters or I’m gog to wre about a homoerotic theme’.

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