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AMC have dropped their new TV adaptatn of Interview Wh The Vampire based on the novel by Anne Rice and is gay as hell. 

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WATCH: ‘INTERVIEW WH A VAMPIRE’ IS FALLY AS GAY AS WE’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE NEW SERI

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

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That’s why the new Interview Wh A Vampire has feelg batty: In the first-look trailer that premiered this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, the seri appears to lean to the homoeroticism that’s been part of the story all along. That ltle neck nibble looks like ’s about to be a full-on gay sex scene. 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.

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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.

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.

“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.

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

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

“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. AMC has dropped s new TV adaptatn of Interview wh the Vampire based on the novel by Anne Rice and ’s gay as hell. Unlike Pt and Cise’s versn of the story, the new seri is unapologetic s queerns wh enough gay vampire hbands ntent to please all the vyg fans.

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“I don’t s down and thk, ‘I’m gog to wre about gay characters or I’m gog to wre about a homoerotic theme’. Not unlike the way I uld’ve sworn that “Berensta Bears” was spelled wh a third “e, ” I totally believed that prev rnatns of Interview wh the Vampire — both Anne Rice’s origal 1976 novel and the 1994 movie adaptatn — were explicly about gay vampir.

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

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