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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.
While the aforementned morn pop-vampiric work is popular for s inic heterosexual romanc, there has been a long and strong history of vampirism and the homoerotic lense beg trsilly entwed. Notably, Wil (a former partner of Florence) was put on trial for gross cency bee of his homosexualy and sentenced to a crimal labor mp as homosexualy was a crimal offense England at the time (homosexual activy was not ma legal England until 1967). Beyond purely homosexual terpretatns, vampir hab a queer existence a broar sense.
Jt as queerns n help scribe a way of beg that is general opposn to the proscribed narrativ of society and put a unifyg label to inti that exist a more limal space, vampir exist a space somewhere between humany and creaturedom, as well as masculy and femy, and homo and heterosexualy.