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Contents:

• GAY VAMPIR
• FIRST LOOK AT ICELANDIC GAY VAMPIRE MOVIE ‘THIRST’
• TE LIFE: I'M A GAY VAMPIRE
• FIRST KILL IS THE GAY VAMPIRE-HUNTER ROMANCE OF OUR DREAMS
• 11 BEST GAY VAMPIRE ROMANCE NOVELS FOR MM FANS
• THE QUEER CORNER | SURPRISE! VAMPIR HAVE ALWAYS BEEN GAY
• FANS ARE HYPED FOR NETFLIX’S NEW GAY VAMPIRE ANIME
• FEATURED FICTN

GAY VAMPIR

While some earlier films do clu overtly gay them, thgs went unrground durg the Hays Co era, and the reverberatns of that subversive queerns rema uful to this day. Here are 31 of the most famoly queer and homoerotic horror films. Some of the movi center on explicly gay terror, while others only feature LGBTQ characters.

A tan of classic horror, gay filmmaker Jam Whale wove queerns to most of his films, which clu the origal “Frankenste” and “The Invisible Man. ” All his films see Whale stg gay actors and playg up queer them var ways.

FIRST LOOK AT ICELANDIC GAY VAMPIRE MOVIE ‘THIRST’

But as wh so much of Hchck, ’s hard to say that this is an outright homophobic visn, pecially when the script has the souciance of Osr Wil: “Before this day is out I fear we’ll hear that terribly old-fashned but que exprsive term ‘foul play, ’” Sanrs says, all while munchg on a chicken leg. Is he gay, and his mother a homophobe whose prence his life he n’t pe?

” The remarkable thg about all this is that Hchck mak you intify wh Perks (who was gay and closeted real life) as much as he did Marn Crane herself, to the pot that, as Hchck often did at his perverse bt, you’re kda rootg for him. A prolific and succsful horror fictn wrer who began directg to adapt his work himself, out gay filmmaker Clive Barker is rponsible for two of the films on this list, “Nightbreed” and “Hellraiser. Though didn’t spawn any sequels, “Nightbreed” was more crilly embraced than “Hellraiser” and is nsired a direct metaphor for gay activism.

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“In many ways, ‘Interview’ is the most mercially succsful gay film of all time, and most dienc didn’t even realize they were seeg a gay film. In fact, ’s so beloved by queer women that ’s hard to believe there is virtually nothg explicly gay about “The Craft.

Takg the token gay iend to his rightfully sensual ends, her roommate Adrien luxuriat his sexualy, brgg boys home and flntg the pleasur of the flh that seem so out of reach to the raveno Jte. For 2019’s “Midnight Kiss, ” a sexy gay slasher set amongst a group of LA gay iends on New Year’s Eve, Blumhoe tapped out gay talent — wrer Erlgur Thoroddsen and director Carter Smh, who also hired all queer actors for the queer rol. Before homosexualy was formally legislated out of existence Hollywood by the Productn Co — monly referred to as the Hays Co, which tablished mandat for “moral standards” motn pictur and banned pictns of “sexual perversy” — the legendary filmmaker Jam Whale was buildg the foundatn for Amerin genre cema wh films like Frankenste, The Old Dark Hoe, and The Invisible Man.

FIRST KILL IS THE GAY VAMPIRE-HUNTER ROMANCE OF OUR DREAMS

Here was Whale, a gay man, buildg horror his own image and havg astoundg box office succs as some groups were lobbyg Hollywood to censor queerns out of existence. Now we n choose om a lbian domtic drama volvg a baby werewolf Good Manners, a transfemist vampire movie B, or a French slasher set a gay porn muny wh Knife + Heart.

Synopsis: A gay zombie (Jey Crisfar) manag to be st a horror film.... Synopsis: In the summer of 1979, Paris-based filmmaker Anne is a producer of third-rate gay porn. There's a much better, simpler, more obv explanatn: Vampir have overwhelmed pop culture bee young straight women want to have sex wh gay men.

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This exact scenar happened several tim my high school between straight girls and gay guys who eher hadn't figured out they were gay or were still the closet.

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Twilight's fantasy is that the geo gay guy n be your boyiend, and for the slightly awkward teenage girls who nsume the books and movi, that's the clcher. Media Platforms Dign TeamTe Blood also sts s shadow on the romance between a young woman and a vampire, but unlike Twilight, which is all subtext and love-that-dare-not-speak-s-name, HBO's cult seri nnects vampirism to homosexualy explicly.

The polil nsequenc are sweepg Iowa's Supreme Court lg on gay marriage is further proof of an old wise man's dictum that the Uned Stat variably do the right thg, after first exhstg all the other alternativ and the cultural impact is jt begng to be felt.

VANAIRSDALE: 'Post-Gay' Ameri and More Weekly Cultural CommentaryPLUS: How Robert Pattson Can Make You Feel Better Right NowStephen Marche is a novelist who wr a monthly lumn for Esquire magaze about culture. 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. But more than that, they seemed to embody the ethos “be gay, do crime, ” a not-always-so-leral exhortatn to live a queer life fiance.

FANS ARE HYPED FOR NETFLIX’S NEW GAY VAMPIRE ANIME

But the homoeroticism was all subtext. AMC’s Interview wh the Vampire, an updated, grisly, and often mordantly hilar retellg of the origal story pulls gay subtext to the ma text, givg a fancy vampire lookg for a longtime pann. And tellg their story, Interview creat an embolned mentary about how sexualy, race, inty, power, and opprsn are all tertwed, and how the forc have throughout Amerin history left the magnificently queer vampir (and many others) wh no choice but to be extremely gay and do so, so many crim.

In Interview wh the Vampire, gay vampir get lonely, too. Logilly, gay vampir make a ton of sense. Vampir don’t partake racism, sexism, and homophobia bee all of humany is beneath them, let alone humany’s awful hangups.

But vampir probably, as Ltat also monstrat, aren’t gog to let racism or homophobia gui their sire.

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It’s hard for some of them to prehend the ia of two men together — not unlike the way history turns gay and lbian lovers to “roommat” or “bt iends.

Come to thk of , Interview is a lot like Frasier, a show that’s also about two sufferable gay men whose fancy tast annoy and threaten the people around them. If they found out he was gay, his life would be danger.

When Ltat shows up, all fancy and charmg and gay, his offer of vampiric immortaly is much more than an eternal life of queer pannship. Be gay, do crim! Part of me hope Louis, who is a 100-year-old queer vampire, got to hear Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” on a dance floor full of flagrant homosexuals.