All Vampir Have a "Ltle" B of "Gay" Them - Vampir - Comic Ve

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

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.

THE QUEER CORNER | SURPRISE! VAMPIR HAVE ALWAYS BEEN GAY

” '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.

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.

ALL VAMPIR HAVE A "LTLE" B OF "GAY" THEM

”'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 ARE GAY: A QUEER SUPERNATURAL NARRATIVE FICTN PODST

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.