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WAS BRAM STOKER GAY
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.
Stoker himself was a closeted gay man who ped for affectn om both his iends, mentors, and possible lovers Osr Wil and Walt Whman. Stoker himself was a closeted gay man who ped for affectn om both his iends, mentors, and possible lovers Osr Wil and Walt Whman — men who both garnered ntroversy for their own pictns of homosexualy. One of the prime wrten exampl of Stoker's own sexual orientatn is a lengthy, nfsnal "love letter" he sent to Walt Whman, whose famo "Calam" poems ntaed explic homoerotic imagery and mgs.
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.