‘Te Blood’ Might Get Rebooted — Brg On the Gay Vampir

Contents:

• ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE
• WATCH: ‘INTERVIEW WH A VAMPIRE’ IS FALLY AS GAY AS WE’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE NEW SERI
• BT GAY VAMPIR
• A HISTORY OF QUEERD VAMPIR OR: WHY ALL VAMPIR ARE GAY.
• GAY VAMPIR
• THE QUEER CORNER | SURPRISE! VAMPIR HAVE ALWAYS BEEN GAY
• 11 BEST GAY VAMPIRE ROMANCE NOVELS FOR MM FANS
• ALL VAMPIR ARE GAY: A QUEER SUPERNATURAL NARRATIVE FICTN PODST

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. 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.

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

“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. 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.

Variety reports that HBO is the early velopment stag of brg back Te Blood for a reboot, and they better keep all the gay energy of the origal on The Southern Vampire Mysteri books, the origal seri starred Anna Paqu as Sookie Stackhoe, a telepathic wars a world where vampir live among humans after velopg a synthetic blood substute, endg their need to hunt humans for food. Aguirre-Sasa is the md behd the mpy lights of Riverdale and Chillg Adventur of Sabra, and has worked as a wrer and producer on Glee and anyone n not only brg back the sexy gay mp of the origal, but also ramp up, s Aguirre-Sasa.

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And while we’ll never fet the image of Cise’s Ltat gog to to town on the neck of Pt’s Louie, the movie stopped jt shy of really gog there and givg the gays everythg they want. That’s why the new Interview Wh A Vampire has feelg batty: In the first-look trailer that premiered this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, the seri appears to lean to the homoeroticism that’s been part of the story all along.

fictn, gay, gay-romance, genre-fictn, lgbtq, m-m-vampir, paranormal, paranormal-romance, queer, romance, supernatural, supernatural-romance, vampire, vampire-only, vampir. In the same way we’ve reclaimed the word queer to mean somethg posive and the way elr gays reclaimed words like faggot and dyke (don’t worry baby gays, you n e those terms and you should wear them wh pri). Startg the 1790’s and the 1800’s gay thors like Matthew Lewis, William Thomas Beckford and Francis Lathom started wrg gay horror stori., they ed horror to sublimally exprs themselv.

A HISTORY OF QUEERD VAMPIR OR: WHY ALL VAMPIR ARE GAY.

Between 1936 and 1968 Amerin law started to prohib displays of homosexualy movi, which puts a temporary stop on gay vampir on the big screen.

GAY VAMPIR

Mix that wh the fact that the 1970’s were an age of sexual liberty and you get sexy gay vampir takg their permanent place pop culture. There's a much better, simpler, more obv explanatn: Vampir have overwhelmed pop culture bee young straight women want to have sex wh gay men. This exact scenar happened several tim my high school between straight girls and gay guys who eher hadn't figured out they were gay or were still the closet.

Twilight's fantasy is that the geo gay guy n be your boyiend, and for the slightly awkward teenage girls who nsume the books and movi, that's the clcher. Media Platforms Dign TeamTe Blood also sts s shadow on the romance between a young woman and a vampire, but unlike Twilight, which is all subtext and love-that-dare-not-speak-s-name, HBO's cult seri nnects vampirism to homosexualy explicly. The polil nsequenc are sweepg Iowa's Supreme Court lg on gay marriage is further proof of an old wise man's dictum that the Uned Stat variably do the right thg, after first exhstg all the other alternativ and the cultural impact is jt begng to be felt.

VANAIRSDALE: 'Post-Gay' Ameri and More Weekly Cultural CommentaryPLUS: How Robert Pattson Can Make You Feel Better Right NowStephen Marche is a novelist who wr a monthly lumn for Esquire magaze about culture.

THE QUEER CORNER | SURPRISE! VAMPIR HAVE ALWAYS BEEN GAY

Books filled wh teenage angst like “Twilight” are perfect for queer rears, and the vampire’s ambiguoly gay history only strengthens this nnectn.

11 BEST GAY VAMPIRE ROMANCE NOVELS FOR MM FANS

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.

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.

ALL VAMPIR ARE GAY: A QUEER SUPERNATURAL NARRATIVE FICTN PODST

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. 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.

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.