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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.