From Twilight's New Moon to HBO's Te Blood and now the CW's Vampire Diari, is vampir that so many Amerin women love... or jt gay men?
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- ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE
- THE FLASH, VAMPIRE DIARI ALUM RICK COST PUBLICLY OUT AS GAY CHEERFUL VIO
ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE
The inic Amerin thor of gothic fictn, cludg "Interview Wh the Vampire," was a vol support of gay rights. * gay vampires vampire diaries *
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While she will first and foremost be remembered as an inic wrer of gothic horror — most notably for her Vampire Chronicl seri — her advocy for LGBTQ rights and steadfast support of her enthiastic, gay fan base would bee an sential part of her legacy. Her son, Christopher Rice, who is gay and is himself an acplished wrer, shared the news of his mother’s passg on her Facebook page.
THE FLASH, VAMPIRE DIARI ALUM RICK COST PUBLICLY OUT AS GAY CHEERFUL VIO
'The Flash' and 'The Vampire Diari' alum Rick Cost has e out as gay a ndid Instagram post. Read on for more. * gay vampires vampire diaries *
” 'I have a gay sensibily'Rice wrote the first and most famo book the Vampire Chronicl seri, “Interview Wh the Vampire, ” 1976. At the time, she was mourng the loss of her 5-year-old dghter, Michele, one of her two children wh poet Stan the book failed to imprs crics, beme an immediate mercial succs, large part bee of s populary among gay rears. François Duhamel / Sygma via Getty ImagIn an terview wh The Daily Beast 2017, Rice said she was “very honored” that people thought “Interview Wh the Vampire” — which was adapted to a film 1994 starrg Tom Cise and Brad Pt and is currently velopment as a TV seri — was a gay allegory.
She then said, “I’ve always been very much a champn of gay rights, and art produced by gay people. “I thk I have a gay sensibily and I feel like I’m gay, bee I’ve always transcend genr, and I’ve always seen love as transcendg genr, ” she said the 2017 terview, regardg the pervasivens of queer characters her wrg. ”'Fear Ameri'Rice’s ti to the LGBTQ muny were epened and ma more personal when Christopher me out as gay after graduatg om high Advote ran a ver story about Christopher 2000, which he said he thought his mother took his g out harr than his father did, bee of what he perceived as her havg a stronger sire, relative to his father’s, to have grandchildren someday.
For her part, Rice said that she was “shocked” by the revelatn, bee she “thought he was straight, ” and that she worried about him havg to face difficulti due to homophobia, but said his g out didn’t dimish her love for him. “People rpond very different ways to what beg gay means.