Gay vampire
So why are there so many gay vampires?
From the time of Carmilla all the way up to the works of Anne Rice (a universe that seems to get only less subtle as the years go on), same-sex attracted vampires have been a thing basically as extended as anyone was writing about vampires. Lesbian vampires have been a genre all their own for decades. Bram Stoker, composer of the most known vampire novel ever written, was gay himself. So why vampires specifically?
I’ve seen people attempt to address this one before, and there are all sorts of contributing factors I could point to here, from the genres’ beginnings with Lord Byron (infamous bisexual disaster fuckboy), to modern discourse about why queer folks so often find themselves identifying with the monsters and outcasts of fiction. Few other monsters besides vampires can so easily pass for ‘normal’, or are nearly so well known for their snappy dress meaning and ‘unnatural cravings’ for human flesh. And that’s without even getting into all those skeezy outdated stereotypes casting queer people as predators, or the idea that even one ‘gay experience’ could somehow ‘convert’ you into creature one yourself.
But to my mind, there’s just one rea
Three vampires battle the lives they left behind to create a future out of the ashes of their pasts.
Immortal Steps: Tain, a renowned Celtic dancer, has bitter memories of his first crush and the trainer who left him without a word. For years he's flung himself from one short romantic encounter to another, the subject of tabloid gossip and speculation, always insisting he's not gay. When Kyle, Tain's old mentor, comes back into Tain's life, the last thing Tain wants is to give the bloke, or the vampire, a place in his heart.
Hidden Depths: Pat's devoted his life to locating the wreck of The Pelican's Flight, sunk in 1692, along with forty other ships, when the infamous town of Port Royal slid into the Caribbean. Jamie clueless more than his lover when The Pelican went down. Pat offers Jamie hope at discovery his ship, along with a chance at rediscovering devote. Will the secrets they share transport them together? Or tear them apart?
Vampires In Heat: Humans in Seattle are dying as a result of household cat vampires and demonesses working together. The latest victim is Erron's neighbor and best ally. Nolan, the public figure of Seattle's Pacifistic Vampire Clan, and Erron, an albino who is usual
There’s always been something queer about vampires. Vampire stories are traditionally rife with dark desires and invisible secrets from their early canonisation in popular identity. But what happens when the subtext becomes the message, and vampires show up out of closets as well as coffins?
In the golden age of streaming television, there’s no shortage of homosexual vampire stories. AMC’s new Interview with the Vampire series is the latest in a wave, riding the accomplishment of FX’s attracted to both genders bloodsucker mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows and Netflix’s teen sapphic series First Eliminate.
Interview With The Vampire revisits Anne Rice’s 1976 novel and Neil Jordan’s 1995 film adaptation of the similar name through a modern lens, suggesting the lack of open queerness in the earlier iterations were the product of unreliable narrators. When the titular vampire Louis reunites in the contemporary day with his human interviewer Daniel, he explains that the original interviews omitted the quixotic nature of the relationship to his vampire maker.
Queer-coding monsters is nothing new: monster stories are often allegories for social outcasts of one kind or another. Vampires hold been used as metaphors for xenophobi
The Queer Corner | Surprise! Vampires have always been gay
This summer gave us a lot to talk about. It’s a tumultuous time for everyone, and marginalized communities are no exception. From the human rights crisis in Afghanistan to the transphobic health policies being pushed at residence and abroad, we’re living through major history. Our 24-hour news cycle is constantly reminding us that we’re doomed, so I don’t want to talk about any of that. I yearn to talk about vampires.
Pitt actually has a class on vampires called “Vampire: Blood and Empire” that I took in my sophomore year. It was an enlightening experience that confirmed many of my queer beliefs about vampires. Namely, that they’re slash from the same gay cloth as I am.
It’s important to note that the vampire’s historic sexual ambiguity did not arrive from a place of progress or diversity. Vampires were monsters, and sexuality was, too. The queerness of vampires was just as condemnable as their wish for human blood. Luckily for us, the vampire’s wealth of patchwork lore makes them a very moldable creature. Stephanie Meyer’s sparkling vampires look very diverse from the silent film luminary “Nosferatu” who looks very diff