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Contents:
- ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE
- THE QUEER CORNER | SURPRISE! VAMPIR HAVE ALWAYS BEEN GAY
- ALL VAMPIR HAVE A "LTLE" B OF "GAY" THEM
- ALL VAMPIR ARE GAY: A QUEER SUPERNATURAL NARRATIVE FICTN PODST
ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE
The inic Amerin thor of gothic fictn, cludg "Interview Wh the Vampire," was a vol support of gay rights. * are vampires gay *
Germany’s Weimar Republic, a sexually progrsive perd between the world wars, produced a number of fluential vampire films cludg Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932) – ma by a gay director and star, rpectively. While she will first and foremost be remembered as an inic wrer of gothic horror — most notably for her Vampire Chronicl seri — her advocy for LGBTQ rights and steadfast support of her enthiastic, gay fan base would bee an sential part of her legacy.
Her son, Christopher Rice, who is gay and is himself an acplished wrer, shared the news of his mother’s passg on her Facebook page.
” 'I have a gay sensibily'Rice wrote the first and most famo book the Vampire Chronicl seri, “Interview Wh the Vampire, ” 1976. At the time, she was mourng the loss of her 5-year-old dghter, Michele, one of her two children wh poet Stan the book failed to imprs crics, beme an immediate mercial succs, large part bee of s populary among gay rears.
THE QUEER CORNER | SURPRISE! VAMPIR HAVE ALWAYS BEEN GAY
From Twilight's New Moon to HBO's Te Blood and now the CW's Vampire Diari, is vampir that so many Amerin women love... or jt gay men? * are vampires gay *
François Duhamel / Sygma via Getty ImagIn an terview wh The Daily Beast 2017, Rice said she was “very honored” that people thought “Interview Wh the Vampire” — which was adapted to a film 1994 starrg Tom Cise and Brad Pt and is currently velopment as a TV seri — was a gay allegory.
“I thk I have a gay sensibily and I feel like I’m gay, bee I’ve always transcend genr, and I’ve always seen love as transcendg genr, ” she said the 2017 terview, regardg the pervasivens of queer characters her wrg. ”'Fear Ameri'Rice’s ti to the LGBTQ muny were epened and ma more personal when Christopher me out as gay after graduatg om high Advote ran a ver story about Christopher 2000, which he said he thought his mother took his g out harr than his father did, bee of what he perceived as her havg a stronger sire, relative to his father’s, to have grandchildren someday. For her part, Rice said that she was “shocked” by the revelatn, bee she “thought he was straight, ” and that she worried about him havg to face difficulti due to homophobia, but said his g out didn’t dimish her love for him.
She also told NPR that the church’s stance on gay marriage was a key factor her cisn: “I didn’t anticipate at the begng that the U. Bishops were gog to e out agast same-sex marriage … that they were actually gog to donate money to feat the civil rights of homosexuals the secular society. “At the time I was a navigatg difficult terrory of genr and sexualy, and she was the first person I me out to as gay, ” Fairchild said the piece.
ALL VAMPIR HAVE A "LTLE" B OF "GAY" THEM
* are vampires gay *
Sexualy and homosexualy have been a part of vampire stori popular culture, mostly as a subtle unrcurrent, sce at least the 19th century. In a time of extreme reprsn and fear for gay people, g their vampire characters as a metaphor for their own hidn sexualy was an outlet for self-exprsn. Talia Schaffer (1994) wr that “Dracula explor Stoker’s fear and anxiety as a closeted homosexual man durg Osr Wil’s trial.
In 1931’s Dracula, the character of Jonathan Harker stands for the thor and his own fears and sir vis-à-vis his reprsed homosexual feelgs. He se all gay men of this time as wearg a “heterosexual mask” and any erotic male ntact as beg “mediated” by femal, the “rrect” genr.
The ter-war perd was a more hopeful time for gays and lbians, pecially large ci, and this is reflected the popular culture.
ALL VAMPIR ARE GAY: A QUEER SUPERNATURAL NARRATIVE FICTN PODST
After seeg the 2 billnth post on this se talkg about Edward Cullen's "gayns", and how the Twilight Vamp's are "gay" bee they glter * are vampires gay *
The first openly gay films, Different om Others (1919) and Mädchen Uniform (1931), were produced Weimar Germany, but urban areas the U. While the “oas” thrived, the majory of the natn remaed nservative all matters sexual, pecially homosexual, and by the late 1930s the social climate was changg even plac such as the. Jt as homosexuals seemed centered specific areas, vampir were mostly limed to Hollywood films, and both groups were seen as “spectacl” by much of the public (Dracula on the big screen or a Harlem drag ball).
Much of gay culture durg this time was as flamboyant as was 1931’s Dracula, wh his flowg pe, transfixg gaze, and heavy accent. Gays who had lived their liv on farms or small towns joed the ary, met other gay people, and spent time large, anonymo ci. This vampire story uld as easily be scribg a young person h off the farm the big cy of San Francis and experiencg gay culture for the first time.