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....