DRACULA GAY
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Recent treatments of Bram Stoker’s novel analyze s homoerotic speratn, unnsc sire, and eply buried trma. Dracula explor Stoker’s fear and anxiety as a closeted homosexual man durg Osr Wil’s trial.
This peculiar tonaly of horror riv om Stoker’s emotns at this unique moment gay history. For a gay observer like Stoker, secrecy and self-assertn both beme sirable goals even as [End Page 381] Wil’s trial nstcted 1890’s homosexual inty as a lite negotiatn between them. Honty and secrecy are tw impossible ials, for homosexualy is always an open secret: [There is] radil uncertaty closeted gay people are likely to feel about who is ntrol of rmatn about their sexual inty....
By the novel’s last page, Harker has learned to love the memory of his ternment Castle Dracula, and has anized both a homosocial band of ‘brothers’ and a bourgeois fay to revolve endlsly around that nucls. Due to s passnate homoeroticism, this Whman letter has been ignored or phemized by Stoker scholars. In terms of homoeroticism and temporaly, is also worth notg that Blaire nsired the lbian as “the heroe of mornism bee she b wh a historil ial the greatns of the ancient world” (Benjam 1983, 90).