Te Blood Isn’t An Allegory For Gay Rights (No Matter What Fans Thk)

Contents:

• SPOILER ALERT: TE BLOOD TURNS STRAIGHT CHARACTER GAY… BUT WHICH ONE?
• TE BLOOD CASTS GAY VAMPIRE
• HBO’S VERY GAY VAMPIRE DRAMA ‘TE BLOOD’ IS GETTG S OWN STAGE MIL
• GAY VAMPIR ON STAGE? WE’RE SOLD! ‘TE BLOOD’ CREATOR NFIRMS STAGE SHOW ADAPTATN
• AHEAD OF A ‘TE BLOOD’ REBOOT, LET’S LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE SERI’ INIC GAY MOMENTS
• IS TE BLOOD ABOUT GAY RIGHTS? FAN THEORY DEBUNKED

SPOILER ALERT: TE BLOOD TURNS STRAIGHT CHARACTER GAY… BUT WHICH ONE?

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TE BLOOD CASTS GAY VAMPIRE

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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the start of Te Blood, HBO’s mpy and very gay vampire drama seri that ran om 2008 to 2014. At a 10th anniversary screeng of the show’s pilot episo Los Angel this past weekend, the show’s gay creator Alan Ball announced tails about the mil, acrdg to. Related: Rememberg Nelsan Ellis as a champn of gay rights, on “Te Blood” set and off.

HBO’S VERY GAY VAMPIRE DRAMA ‘TE BLOOD’ IS GETTG S OWN STAGE MIL

Lafayette, a gay character om HBO’s Te Blood. The TV seri was based on thor Charlae Harris’ The Southern Vampire Mysteri books and ntaed a large number of gay, lbian and bisexual characters cludg Lafayette Reynolds, a strong sassy short-orr ok; Tara Thornton, a tough-talkg bisexual human-turned-vampire; Eric Northman, a bisexual vampire who gets briefly volved wh Talbot, the gay nsort of Vampire Kg Rsell Edggton; and many more. And yet, I will surely follow Sookie Stackhoe and Bill Compton to the end, as I’m sure many of my Facebook -watchers—almost all gay people—will do as well, for one simple reason: Dpe gog off the rails somewhere on the way to fairyland seasons ago, Te Blood remas one of the most pendably and grippgly queer shows on televisn.

Sce s start, Te Blood has been wily unrstood as a kd of allegory for the gay rights stggle the Uned Stat. As fahful gay viewers will tell you, though, attemptg to track the analogy closely is a fool’s errand.

And, though Hot Wgs, the extra-dimensnal fairy nightclub, do remd me of certa Hell’s Kchen gay parti, nizens of such spac do not (ually) turn to gobl-like creatur when provoked. To be fair, Ball himself disuraged leral parisons early on: “To look at the vampir on the show as metaphors for gays and lbians is so simple and so easy, that ’s kd of lazy, ” he said at a prs nference 2009. “If you get really ser about , well, then the show uld be seen to be very homophobic bee vampir are dangero: They kill, they’re amoral.

GAY VAMPIR ON STAGE? WE’RE SOLD! ‘TE BLOOD’ CREATOR NFIRMS STAGE SHOW ADAPTATN

… I’m sure there’s a lot of people who are watchg Te Blood who are not pro–gay rights, but maybe that opened the door.

While Ball’s fears regardg straights gettg the wrong ia about gay moraly om Te Blood is well-taken, the fact that the show allows s opprsed mory a range of fairly nuanced reprentatns, whether polil, moral, or otherwise, has always been the primary source of s appeal my timatn.

AHEAD OF A ‘TE BLOOD’ REBOOT, LET’S LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE SERI’ INIC GAY MOMENTS

There may be no pal-G gay agenda, but that don’t mean the HRC don’t have one of s own, and that’s the msage that most straight Amerins hear. For s, gay advot had amed their arguments terms of equal rights and ernment benefs, often g rhetoric that was nontatnal (“We’re here, we’re queer, get ed to ”) and mandg (“We serve equal rights now!

But when asked why they thought gay people wanted to marry, they ced rights and benefs. Tappg to anti-gay stereotyp, they suggted gay people wanted marriage for selfish reasons while they themselv wanted to exprs love and mment.

The gay rights aln’s rponse was the “Why Marriage Matters” mpaign. A gay show! Gay.

IS TE BLOOD ABOUT GAY RIGHTS? FAN THEORY DEBUNKED

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From one actor abandong ship due to not wantg to partake a gay romance storyle to the real-life drk that will let you pretend to be a vampire, here are the 15 Behd-The-Scen Secrets You Didn’t Know About Te Blood! Le Grim Left The Show Over A Gay Romance Storyle.