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VAMPIRE MLM/GAY FLAG

When I was dog my rearch for a The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate review, I me across an article that examed the unrlyg gay ton of the film Interview Wh The Vampire. I was always aware of the homosexual subtext of the movie ever sce I first watched as a teenager, but as I grew olr, I noticed more and more that were a lot of stori that foced on vampir wh unrlyg LGBT them. LGBT them first popped up horror lerature durg the 1790s and 1800s, when gay gothic thors – the lik of Matthew Lewis, William Thomas Beckford and Francis Lathom – wrote the stori as a sublimal exprsn.

In a Huffpost terview, Jam Jenks, -owner of Valanurt Books, an pennt prs that specialis the redisvery of fictn that has prevly gone unr the radar, mented that “the tradnal explanatn for the gay/horror nnectn is that was impossible for them to wre openly about gay them back then (or even perhaps exprs them, sce words like ‘gay’ and ‘homosexual’ didn’t exist), so they sublimated them and exprsed them more acceptable forms, g the medium of a transgrsive genre like horror fictn. However, the first tly gay vampire book to be released was Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 novella Carla.

Wh that beg said, Carla arguably acted as a template for future gay vampire novels, and even Carla’s future adaptatns migated the problem of the origal – the web seri Carla that buted Augt 2014 was appld for s portrayal of queer relatnships. Gag a loyal cult followg, the show embrac openly gay and genrqueer characters throughout s three seasons.

Even the most famo vampire novel of all has s gay subtexts.

When this argument is put to the si though, there is still some gay ntext to be found the book. Though piec of vampire media wh gay them popped up the g years, such as the 1936 movie Dracula’s Dghter, the portrayal of LGBT characters and them were strictly prohibed cema, thanks to the Motn Picture Productn that ran om 1934 to 1968. Anne Rice would go on to wre follow-up books for Interview wh the Vampire, first wh The Vampire Ltat 1985 and then Queen of the Damned 1988, books which would ntue to feature mostly gay characters.

Subsequently, gay vampire culture flourished, securg their place morn culture. Dietz wrg a seri of books about a gay vampire who leads an otherwise normal life, outsi of killg homophob.

The vastly popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has probably one of the bt portrayed gay characters televisn history the form of Willow, played by Alyson Hannigan. Though she isn’t a vampire, Willow is Buffy’s bt iend who ends up g out as gay halfway through the seri. However, while straight vampir do exist, like the Twilight anchise wrten by Stephanie Meyer, more often than not, vampir have proven to be profoundly gay.

Te Blood has very sexual them and equently featur LGBT characters – even if you haven’t seen the seri, the scene of Lafayette layg the smackdown on homophobic rednecks was a popular clip on the ter when me out. 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.