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It is often somewhat jokgly stated that all vampir are gay. The tth is, all vampir are gay or well gay as queer. In this piece I'll tell you why.

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

The inic Amerin thor of gothic fictn, cludg "Interview Wh the Vampire," was a vol support of gay rights. * vampires gay *

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. “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.

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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.

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A list of 13 films piled on Letterboxd, cludg Sons of Satan (1973), Love B (1988), Gayracula (1983), Sb (2005) and Eulogy for a Vampire (2009). About this list: Everybody knows about Lbian Vampir™ but you need to know about the gay vampir too. * vampires gay *

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.

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Corwynn Rosewood prents: . ALL VAMPIRES ARE GAY . All Vampir Are Gay is a supernatural actn/adventure story wh a sassy si dish of rom-! It’s a mpy, heartfelt send-up of the vampire genre through a morn lens. If you’re lookg for an excg and fortg show about magil & paranormal adventur, you’ve found . . DESCRIPTION: Victor Nightgale is a few hundred years old and bored of everythg. When he meets a betiful and myster young DJ named Robert they have an immediate nnectn. But their new romance is threatened by the supernatural forc brewg on the horizon, om ancient evil vampir to morally grey wch all kds of dangers are lurkg the shadows and someone om Victor’s past is the one pullg the strgs. . Together wh their gang of queer vampir; non-bary spy master Samson, nerdy trans vampire wch Jn, asexual fortune-tellg oracle Persephone and more, they will fight to keep humans safe om the forc of evil their ray astal cy. . All Vampir Are Gay is a sgle-narrator d drama podst wh full soundtrackg. . ——————- All Vampir Are Gay - Listen Now on all major podstg works! . ~* This show is full of vampir, wch and werewolv, an urban fantasy fairy Dark Amia settg wh lots of magil herbs, potns and mythology. The show has a variety of LGBTQ characters cludg bisexual, pansexual, lbian, transgenr, asexual, non bary, etc. We thk this show would appeal to fans of Our Flag Means Death, Good Omens, Heartstopper, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, What We Do In The Shadows, Wynonna Earp, Teen Wolf, Tw Peaks, The Umbrella Amy, The Untamed and First Kill. As well as fans of other amazg origal podsts like The Magn Archiv, Wele To Night Vale, Lore and The Adventure Zone and fantasy thors like Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett and Holly Black. If you’re a fan of the shows we thk you might enjoy our show too! *~ . ——————- CONTENT RATING . PG14+ for Vlence and Cursg . ——————— SUPPORT THE SHOW . Webse - . Bee A Patron - . Merch - . Instagram - . Email Corwynn - . One of the bt ways to support is to share our show! If you love All Vampir Are Gay please tell your iends! . Thank you for listeng! ." name="scriptn * vampires gay *

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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

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

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