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WAS BRAM STOKER 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. 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. 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.