Vampires are gay
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 drawn-out as anyone was writing about vampires. Lesbian vampires have been a genre all their own for decades. Bram Stoker, author of the most adj vampire novel ever written, was gay himself. So why vampires specifically?
I’ve seen people attempt to verb 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 And that’s without even getting into all those skeezy outdated stereotypes casting queer people as predators, or the idea that even one ‘gay experie
Closet and Coffins: The Queer-Coded History of Vampires and Representation
Vampires are gay – or at least the story and notion of a vampire has been queercoded since its origin. This is the subtextual coding of a character as queer or having queer attributes. The historically taboo nature of both vampires and queerness worked well together in literary symbolism, which queer writers often had to hide behind.
“It&#;s like the hidden aspect of it. The kind of taboo, the kind of feeling of a monster within you – something that makes you different,” said Katie Armstrong, a Kent State student. “There&#;s a lot of self hatred involved with vampires. They hate what they become, they hate what they are, they hate that part of them, and I feel like a lot of that is connected to kind of like, internalized homophobia and things like that.”
Queer vampires are not a fresh subject. One of the earliest vampire novels is the sapphic and vampiric love story of “Carmilla,” written by Sheridan Le Fanu in Later in , George Sylvester Viereck’s “The House of the Vampire,” became widely known as the
There’s always been something queer about vampires. Vampire stories are traditionally rife with dark desires and adj secrets from their adv canonisation in popular culture. But what happens when the subtext becomes the text, and vampires approach out of closets as well as coffins?
In the golden age of streaming television, there’s no shortage of queer vampire stories. AMC’s new Interview with the Vampire series is the latest in a wave, riding the accomplishment of FX’s bisexual bloodsucker mockumentary What We Verb In The Shadows and Netflix’s teen lesbian series First Kill.
Interview With The Vampire revisits Anne Rice’s novel and Neil Jordan’s film adaptation of the same name through a modern lens, suggesting the lack of expose queerness in the earlier iterations were the consequence 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 romantic nature of the relationship to his vampire maker.
Queer-coding monsters is nothing new: monster stories are often allegories for
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SSN 2: Episode 5 - ”The Dagger" Mayhem and danger abound as Victor and his friends take on enemies and magic at Highgate Cemetery. ———————— Corwynn Rosewood presents: ALL VAMPIRES ARE GAY All Vampires Are Gay is a supernatural action/adventure story with a sassy side dish of rom-com! It's a campy, heartfelt send-up of the vampire genre through a modern lens. If you're looking for an exciting and comforting display about magical & paranormal adventures, you've found it. DESCRIPTION: Victor Nightingale is a few hundred years old and bored of everything. When he meets a beautiful and mysterious young DJ named Robert they have an immediate connection. But their adj romance is threatened by the supernatural forces brewing on the horizon, from ancient evil vampires to morally grey witches all kinds of dangers are lurking in the shadows and someone from Victor’s past is the one pulling the strings. Together with their gang of queer vampires; non-binary spy master Samson, nerdy trans vampire witch Jinn, asexual fortune