Was Bram Stoker gay? - Answers

Contents:

• WHY DO TODAY'S DIENCE SAY CERTA FICTNAL CHARACTERS ARE GAY?
• WAS BRAM STOKER GAY
• THE HISTORY OF HORROR IS GAY
• WALT WHMAN IS OUR NATNAL POET, AND A GAY IN

WHY DO TODAY'S DIENCE SAY CERTA FICTNAL CHARACTERS ARE GAY?

The sex was disguised—and Dracula, full of stalkg and bg, chasg and drag, beme a masterclass erotic rears felt the novel a homoerotic heart. Bram Stoker was gay. For all his natural radiance and radilism, only Whman himself never did out-and-out clare his homosexualy.

As Jack the Ripper stalked the prostut of Whechapel, gay Victorians were hunted by more than the fear of disvery and rejectn, the terror, the diagnosis of which generated an ternal prsure wh Stoker to produce a dark art of longg and menace, of pe and pture, of immortaly and ath. ) Though Skal documents Stoker’s other attempts at lerary succs (and unvers an abandoned homoerotic lerary sketch), only his last novel, the luridly phallic Grand Guignol that is The Lair of the Whe Worm, close (and not that close) to measurg up to Dracula. Somethg the Blood is a rippg good read; wonrfully illtrated, a load pendium of Wilana, and of utmost importance, the world now knows that Bram Stoker was gay.

WAS BRAM STOKER GAY

At the turn of a century two gay men created new myths and the alchemil procs of wrg beme immortal themselv.

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.

THE HISTORY OF HORROR IS GAY

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. Sce we n’t be sure whether Whman self-intified as “gay” or “bisexual, ” many tend to jt refer to him as “queer.

And while he did eventually get married when he was 30, was reportedly a “celibate unn” wh a woman who funny enough had also been urted by Osr Wil, himself a gay men wh whom Stoker “strongly intified.

Popova also pots out that Stoker’s Dracula featur some of the same “rich homoerotic overton” found Whman’s Leav of Grass. " They're a ltle more updated, maybe more mature, and some — like those two — feature gay characters after years of speculatn om viewers about the sexuali of fictnal subtext is somethg historians and fans often read to datg back hundreds of example, one letter by Ey Dickson reads, "Dearer you nnot be, for I love you so already, that almost breaks my heart — perhaps I n love you anew, every day of my life, every morng and eveng...

WALT WHMAN IS OUR NATNAL POET, AND A GAY IN

The two characters weren't nfirmed to be gay, but bee of the "vib" that dienc got om some of their short teractns on-screen, they beme one of the most popular ships the fandom. Stoker is said to have been heavily fluenced by that trial and noted to be very publicly agast homosexualy. It'll never be clear exactly what Stoker was feelg, but some historians today speculate that he was a closeted gay man who was attracted to, and possibly even lovers of, Osr Wil and Walt Whman.