Vampires are gay
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 society. But what happens when the subtext becomes the chat, and vampires reach 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 success of FX’s bisexual bloodsucker mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows and Netflix’s teen lesbian series First Kill.
Interview With The Vampire revisits Anne Rice’s 1976 novel and Neil Jordan’s 1995 film adaptation of the alike 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 current day with his human interviewer Daniel, he explains that the original interviews omitted the love-related 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 possess been used as metaphors for xenophobi
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), gay vampires have been a thing basically as long as anyone was writing about vampires. Lesbian vampires have been a genre all their own for decades. Bram Stoker, author of the most famous vampire novel ever written, was gay himself. So why vampires specifically?
I’ve seen people attempt to answer 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 sense 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 And that’s without even getting into all those skeezy outdated stereotypes casting queer people as predators, or the idea that even one ‘gay experience’ could somehow ‘convert’ you into being one yourself.
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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 tradition. But what happens when the subtext becomes the communicate , and vampires reach 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 pansexual bloodsucker mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows and Netflix’s teen womxn loving womxn series First Destroy.
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 latest day with his human interviewer Daniel, he explains that the original interviews omitted the sentimental 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 own been used as metaphors for xenophobi
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