Anne Rice and her homoerotic vampir left an immortal mark on gay culture

Contents:

• ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE
• INTERVIEW WH A VAMPIRE REBOOT WILL EMBRACE THE BOOKS' GAY SUBTEXT
• 'INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE' IS BLACKER AND GAYER THAN EVER — AND IT FEELS JT RIGHT
• JOSEPH-LOUIS GAY-LSAC

ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE

Instead, the homosexual them and romance between the two characters rema subtextual the book.

Louis is a Black queer man a homophobic era, erned by relig doctre; he has to wrtle wh not only his feelgs for Ltat, but also briefly his old flame Jonah (Thomas Antony Olaji) as well as Ltat’s sexual fluidy. Black gay men still fd hard to be accepted wh the queer muny, so this is an add layer of reprentatn the show.

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.

INTERVIEW WH A VAMPIRE REBOOT WILL EMBRACE THE BOOKS' GAY SUBTEXT

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. She then said, “I’ve always been very much a champn of gay rights, and art produced by gay people.

'INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE' IS BLACKER AND GAYER THAN EVER — AND IT FEELS JT RIGHT

“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. “People rpond very different ways to what beg gay means.

JOSEPH-LOUIS GAY-LSAC

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.

”“The End of Eddy” (Farrar, Strs & Giroux; translated, om the French, by Michael Lucey) vers five or six years the life of Eddy Bellegule, a child growg up poor and gay Hallenurt— the novel, Louis refers to only as “the village”—where he’s vicly mocked for his effemate manners, what his fay lls his “fancy ways. Eribon’s memoir, “Returng to Reims, ” also reunts a gay man’s trajectory om provcial poverty to amic prtige. Louis is the French lerary sensatn who was celebrated at 21 for The End of Eddy, an tobgraphil acunt of growg up gay a workg-class village the north of France.