Books shelved as gay-vampire: Forever Young by Jeff Erno, Bound By Blood by Jourdan Lane, Carry On by Rabow Rowell, The Vampire's Wch by Damian Serbu...
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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. It took me a long time to unrstand that my fascatn wh vampir rulted om elements of homosexualy Dracula, which I first enuntered at the movi as a kid. While dog rearch for Medice For The Blu trilogy, I read a lot of footnot and biblgraphi and that’s how I ran across this trigug article—a sharp-wted terpretatn of homosexualy Dracula, the origal vampire story: “Kiss Me wh those Red Lips”: Genr and Inversn Bram Stoker’s Dracula, by Christopher Craft.
I have been fascated wh vampir ever sce, no doubt bee of the homoerotic spectacle of one man bg another on the neck (neckg?! In his article, Christopher Craft repeatedly rais the issue of male anxiety Victorian England, both relatn to the rise of “the New Woman, ” but more signifintly, the specter of homoeroticism.
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Here is an excerpt om Craft’s article potg out elements of homosexualy Dracula:. Homosexualy me vividly to public nscns wh the notor trial of Osr Wil 1895. In Chapter 4 of Peter Boag’s Same-Sex Affairs, Constctg and Controllg Homosexualy the Pacific Northwt, he trac the fluence of the Wil trial “From Osr Wil to Portland’s 1912 Sndal.