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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.