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SO WHAT IF DRACULA IS GAY?
Stoker himself was a closeted gay man who ped for affectn om both his iends, mentors, and possible lovers Osr Wil and Walt Whman. Stoker himself was a closeted gay man who ped for affectn om both his iends, mentors, and possible lovers Osr Wil and Walt Whman — men who both garnered ntroversy for their own pictns of homosexualy. One of the prime wrten exampl of Stoker's own sexual orientatn is a lengthy, nfsnal "love letter" he sent to Walt Whman, whose famo "Calam" poems ntaed explic homoerotic imagery and mgs.
Fally, Stoker’s homosexual clatns meant he had to hi his te nature, so Stoker may have felt he was livg unr a false inty as Dracula mt nceal his vampirism to survive (Malchow 155). After 1895, Osr Wil’s famo trial rulted laws agast homosexualy beg stricter, meang Stoker would have feared to have his homosexualy disvered.
More severe pictns clud Jewish men as wardly homosexual generat who preyed upon nocent boys; such reprentatns easily extend to the metaphor that Jews were like vampir, for vampir seek their victims durg nocturnal hours, the same time when homosexuals are most likely to ntact one another (Malchow 141, 163). Vampir, Jews, and homosexuals were also all associated wh strange smells believed to arise om the bodily emissns of masturbatn or the fecund odor of sodomy (Malchow 141).