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Contents:

• BT GAY VAMPIR
• GAY VAMPIR BOOKS
• THE 10 BT GAY VAMPIRE BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE READ ALREADY BY NOW!
• GAY VAMPIRE BOOKS
• 11 BEST GAY VAMPIRE ROMANCE NOVELS FOR MM FANS
• BT GAY VAMPIR BOOKS
• VLENT DIRE: GAY VAMPIRE PARANORMAL ROMANCE (BLACKROSE BROTHERHOOD BOOK 1) KDLE EDN
• THE VAMPIRE'S CLUB BOXSET - A GAY VAMPIRE ROMANCE (BOOKS 1-3) KDLE EDN
• IN SEARCH OF GAY VAMPIRE BOOKS
• GAY VAMPIR LOVE
• FEATURED STORI
• THE QUEER CORNER | SURPRISE! VAMPIR HAVE ALWAYS BEEN GAY
• ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE
• GAY VAMPIRE BOOKS BY TLE
• 'INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE' IS BLACKER AND GAYER THAN EVER — AND IT FEELS JT RIGHT
• 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
• NAZIS, SEDNISTS, AND GAY VAMPIRE PORN: RACHEL MADDOW REVEALS HER NEW PODST ‘ULTRA’
• FIRST KILL IS THE GAY VAMPIRE-HUNTER ROMANCE OF OUR DREAMS

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fictn, gay, gay-romance, genre-fictn, lgbtq, m-m-vampir, paranormal, paranormal-romance, queer, romance, supernatural, supernatural-romance, vampire, vampire-only, vampir. Recently, there has been a rise gay vampire lerature, providg a platform for the LGBTQ+ muny wh the genre and offerg a new perspective (a.

From historil fictn to ntemporary fantasy, the books will take you on a journey through time and space, explorg the many facets of the gay vampire experience.

Whether you’re a long-time fan of the genre or new to the world of gay vampire lerature, the books will surely ptivate and enthrall you.

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As a gay person, I found myself relatg to Rty’s stggl, and was rehg to see a gay character portrayed a posive light and not as a stereotype. Showers, Flowers, and Fangs is a story that lv to them of inty, acceptance, and iendship, particularly emphasizg the LGBT and gay experienc.

The thor manag to explore the plexi of inty and self-acceptance as the protagonist grappl wh the unique challeng of beg a half-fae and his own gay inty. The iendship and relatnship between Darren and Vladimir provi a posive reprentatn of a gay relatnship, which is not often seen the lerature. Set the gay clubs of Oxford Street Sydney, the story follows the protagonist, Reylan, a Blood Sha (vampire) and a gay man, as he navigat a world where the l between predator and prey are blurred.

This gay vampire romance turns the “secretary” romance trope and turns on s head, wh a vampire hoekeeper and rather fetful human employer, who is a fulltime thor. Last week I found out that my book The Callg is 96th on the Bt Gay Vampire Book list (click here), which is part of Bt M/M romance featurg gay vampir… um what? This is a b of an issue bee there is this thg lled false advertisg and I never want to be cricized for do I market a non-romance gay book?

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It also means that The Callg (and soon to be The Callg Two) even though they have a gay ma character are of the same liber as the amazg works and not a vampire sexpa.

It’s not the wrg or the publishg (although both take time and are a lot of work) you have any suggtns on ways to market non-romance gay book? Gidney offers rears a gay teen obssed wh his patron sat, Lena Horne, and, the tle story, an ailg tourist seekg pe at a distant shore but never reckons on enunterg an Ain sea god. Now Joe mt e his time mache to do nothg ls than prevent a seemgly evable future which homo sapiens are enslaved unr the immortal le of Lord Dracula, who is nveniently planng to rise aga.

Love and magic bd them together even as everythg and everyone tri to pry them Merman (5 books, plete)This gay paranormal romance seri ntas psychic powers, a mostly-naked merman lover, an evil scientist, and te love beneath the Bodyguard (3 books, plete)A sexy bodyguard, his termed young client, an ancient goln sarphag, and unsolved mysteri both their pasts... TalkVampire FictnJo LibraryThg to search of gay vampire books This topic is currently marked as "dormant"—the last msage is more than 90 days old.

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I'm always on the lookout for books wh a vampire protagonist that is eher gay or bi, and is a "good" guy, or at least, not a "evil" monster.

have you read Hal Bodner's Be Club (might be hard to fd, but worth the effort)- 's about vampir Wt Hollywood and a gay vamp is asked to e there to vtigate murrs.

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Books filled wh teenage angst like “Twilight” are perfect for queer rears, and the vampire’s ambiguoly gay history only strengthens this nnectn. 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. 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.

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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. “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. Bishops were gog to e out agast same-sex marriage … that they were actually gog to donate money to feat the civil rights of homosexuals the secular society. “At the time I was a navigatg difficult terrory of genr and sexualy, and she was the first person I me out to as gay, ” Fairchild said the piece.

When I was dog my rearch for a The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate review, I me across an article that examed the unrlyg gay ton of the film Interview Wh The Vampire.

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I was always aware of the homosexual subtext of the movie ever sce I first watched as a teenager, but as I grew olr, I noticed more and more that were a lot of stori that foced on vampir wh unrlyg LGBT them.

LGBT them first popped up horror lerature durg the 1790s and 1800s, when gay gothic thors – the lik of Matthew Lewis, William Thomas Beckford and Francis Lathom – wrote the stori as a sublimal exprsn. In a Huffpost terview, Jam Jenks, -owner of Valanurt Books, an pennt prs that specialis the redisvery of fictn that has prevly gone unr the radar, mented that “the tradnal explanatn for the gay/horror nnectn is that was impossible for them to wre openly about gay them back then (or even perhaps exprs them, sce words like ‘gay’ and ‘homosexual’ didn’t exist), so they sublimated them and exprsed them more acceptable forms, g the medium of a transgrsive genre like horror fictn. Wh that beg said, Carla arguably acted as a template for future gay vampire novels, and even Carla’s future adaptatns migated the problem of the origal – the web seri Carla that buted Augt 2014 was appld for s portrayal of queer relatnships.

Though piec of vampire media wh gay them popped up the g years, such as the 1936 movie Dracula’s Dghter, the portrayal of LGBT characters and them were strictly prohibed cema, thanks to the Motn Picture Productn that ran om 1934 to 1968.

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Anne Rice would go on to wre follow-up books for Interview wh the Vampire, first wh The Vampire Ltat 1985 and then Queen of the Damned 1988, books which would ntue to feature mostly gay characters. The vastly popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has probably one of the bt portrayed gay characters televisn history the form of Willow, played by Alyson Hannigan. However, while straight vampir do exist, like the Twilight anchise wrten by Stephanie Meyer, more often than not, vampir have proven to be profoundly gay.

Te Blood has very sexual them and equently featur LGBT characters – even if you haven’t seen the seri, the scene of Lafayette layg the smackdown on homophobic rednecks was a popular clip on the ter when me out.

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A hunky sophomore cis to d a summer class on Egyptology tght by a magic profsor, and disvers a qut to vigorate an ancient le of kgs.

It wasn't bad enough that her lover was the dghter of a homophobic diplomat, but now she's begun to act strangely, sneakg out at night to do who knows what. An anthology of eleven short stori of horror and dark fantasy, wh gay men and lbians at the center of the tal of ghosts, vampir, werewolv and spirs. A gay uple, shunned by the small town they live , revive a vampire and mt al both wh the 'gift' of immortaly offered to them by the vampire.

When a gay man the last stag of lkemia is offered the chance to bee a healthy, immortal, eternally-youthful vampire, he accepts readily.

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The stori troduce you to the doomed and the damned, cludg a gay travel wrer wh a one-way ticket to horror; a murred lbian who plots bloody revenge om the grave; a young gay man's fear of Jewish vampir; and many others. All of the protagonists of the eight horror tal here are gay, allowg the thor both a new twist on chiller standbys, such as vampirism and spir posssn, and an trigug perspective on the plexi of gay life.

Horror fictn has always portrayed society's greatt fears as monstro rnatns of 'the other, ' so should be no surprise that there has always been a clear homoerotic subtext horror films--om Frankenste to Interview wh the Vampire.

Begng wh Byron and Polidori, Rymer and LeFanu, Auerbach shows how the character of the vampire offered an timacy--often homoerotic--that threatened the class stcture and the thory of hbands and fathers. Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' end this tradn, troducg a tyrannil vampire to late Victorian rears who where hnted by a monster of their own makg--the clil versn of the homosexual.

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Travel across the universe – both real and imaged – wh some of the bt gay fantasy books, headg to remote islands wh seal iends and navigatg famo ci reimaged. While many of the gay fantasy novels are for adults, fd popular and lser-known LGBT YA fantasy books, meetg your next favore vampire or wizard. One of the more polilly-charged gay fantasy books on this list, Phoenix Extravagant ntas a very well-imaged society and some very pleasg fantastil creativy.

Wrten and drawn wh tense energy, Wynd is perfect for those lookg for gay fantasy books that have a genue element of lethal danger for s protagonists.

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The number of thgs gog on this book might be a ltle overwhelmg for some, but that don’t stop om beg one of the bt gay fantasy novels for you to try! Gay fantasy novels don’t get any headier than Rowell’s Carry On, which also promis an enjoyable dose of magic, wizards, ghosts, and vampir.

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For example, the seri reimag Anrson’s character, Louis Pote du Lac, as not only Black but gay, and is cur enough to actually explore his terry as a saloon owner-turned-vampire navigatg the nf of race, sexualy, thirst, power and eternal life 1910s Louisiana. This is, after all, the story of a vampire the prent day divulgg his memori om the so-lled Progrsive Era filled wh bloodthirsty nquts and gay sex, and wh an emotnal pacy regnizable to anyone — alive or unad. Homosexual behavr had always been supprsed durg the centuri of Christian domance of the Wt, and th, uld be expected that the heightened sensualy associated wh vampirism, some homosexual elements might be prent—and such has been the se.

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Lerary crics have long noted a homosexual aspect among the very first piec of vampire Taylor Coleridge‘s “Christabel”, the first vampire poem English, portend a theme that would reappear vampire lerature—lbian vampire relatnships. Durg the 1970s several addnal tl wh gay vampir appeared: Sons of Satan (1973), Tenrns of Wolv (1973), and an Italian film, Il Cavaliere Costante Nisia Demonia Ovvero Dracula Brianza (1975).

There is a small selectn of x-rated movi wh a vampire theme such as The Vampire of Budapt (1995) 2007, the first gay-oriented vampire televisn seri, The Lair, aired on here!, a gay televisn work.

He also troduced the character of Andrew, a gay vampire who went on to bee the subject of a novel, Vampir Anonymo, which a morn-day vampire hunter and a vampire revery group seek to cure dividuals of vampirism.

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Her first novel, Interview wh the Vampire, featured the tense relatnship between Louis and Ltat Lnurt, the homosexual nnotatns of which were not missed by reviewers. The Rice novels have been a source for the morn gothic rock movement, whose fans value the androgyno ial and have opened their circl to homosexualy and other sexual exprsns, such as transvtism and the wake of Rice’s populary the gay/lbian muny, a host of novels and short story llectns have appeared specifilly geared for a lbian and gay dience. Lbian rears found their vampire terts bt exprsed by Ain Amerin wrer Jewelle Gomez whose Gilda Stori (1991) has been regnized om beyond the lbian and gay muni.

Founr Jeff Flaster of Middletown, New York, also eded the club’s monthly fanze, which published short fictn for and about gay and lbian vampir, ntact rmatn for members, and other ems of tert. Also operatg for a few years the early 1990s was the Secret Room, a Texas-based anizatn for gay/lbian/bisexual fans of the Dark Shadows televisn seri. Bold, egotistil, and wty, gay pro hockey star Ezra Palaszcz has an ego the size of Texas and the skills to match, both on and off the ice.

Senator Wton Calloway vowed to always rema te to himself and, sce then, has worked tirelsly to change the world for the better as an out and proud gay man. Sexualy and homosexualy have been a part of vampire stori popular culture, mostly as a subtle unrcurrent, sce at least the 19th century. In a time of extreme reprsn and fear for gay people, g their vampire characters as a metaphor for their own hidn sexualy was an outlet for self-exprsn.

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In 1931’s Dracula, the character of Jonathan Harker stands for the thor and his own fears and sir vis-à-vis his reprsed homosexual feelgs. He se all gay men of this time as wearg a “heterosexual mask” and any erotic male ntact as beg “mediated” by femal, the “rrect” genr.

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The first openly gay films, Different om Others (1919) and Mädchen Uniform (1931), were produced Weimar Germany, but urban areas the U.

While the “oas” thrived, the majory of the natn remaed nservative all matters sexual, pecially homosexual, and by the late 1930s the social climate was changg even plac such as the. Jt as homosexuals seemed centered specific areas, vampir were mostly limed to Hollywood films, and both groups were seen as “spectacl” by much of the public (Dracula on the big screen or a Harlem drag ball). This vampire story uld as easily be scribg a young person h off the farm the big cy of San Francis and experiencg gay culture for the first time.

The pre-Stonewall era for gays and lbians Amerin society, lastg om the end of World War II to the late 1960s, was mostly a time of reprsn, fear, and the closet. It was a time of nformy not jt for gay people, but for women and other mori as well, who were expected to play their role orr to keep Ameri safe om “Godls Communism.

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” Senator Joseph McCarthy, his notor (and closeted) righthand man Roy Cohn, and others of their ilk were huntg not jt munists but homosexuals as well. There were ngrsnal heargs aimed at rootg “sexual perverts” out of ernment jobs, and postal surveillance of magaz geared toward gay men ntued until 1966.

In Sudnly, Last Summer (1959), the homosexual character never appears or speaks, and di a terrible off-screen ath, torn to piec by an angry mob. The movie was based on a play by gay wrer Tennsee Williams, whose works A Streetr Named Dire and Cat on a Hot T Roof referenced homosexualy (though not their movie versns).

Fally, Queen of Blood (1966), a female vampire attacks astronts on a distant pla while tryg to breed a new race, somewhat remiscent of the outlandish belief that gays mt go out and “rec” to replenish their numbers. Explicly “gay” movi began to appear followg the Stonewall Rts of 1969, startg wh The Boys the Band 1970 and ntug wh such films as Fortune and Men’s Ey (1971), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and Midnight Exprs (1978). There were also a number of “unrground” gay movi, notably those of John Waters (1973’s Pk Flamgos and 1975’s Female Trouble), and of urse The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).