Interview with a vampire gay scene

I remember watching Interview With The Vampire as a kid who knew nothing about gay relationships, and thinking something sexy was definitely happening between Lestat/Louis/Armand. Anne Rice’s novel tells the story of Louis de Pointe du Lac who recounts his life story to a reporter.

It is soon revealed that he has been a vampire since Turned by the enigmatic vampire, Lestat de Lioncourt, the pair become immortal companions. Interview With the Vampire is one of the most influential vampire stories ever told, and also one of the gayest. Originally published as a novel in , the book spawned 12 sequels, a. As if that wasn’t queer enough, Interview with the Vampire also has plenty of scenes of very homoerotic bloodsucking.

The vampires at the heart of the film need to feed to survive – but it’s clear that drinking blood is about so much more than just survival. AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, an updated, grisly, and often mordantly hilarious retelling of the original story pulls gay subtext into the main text, giving us a fancy vampire looking. Simultaneously erased, elevated, trodden down, associated with evil, seductiveness, villainy, privilege, freedom, and queerness.

Laden with rich meaning, some of the scenes form a master class in cinematic storytelling through bisexuality, while others are the epitome of classic biphobia.

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Though much complaint is heard from fans of the Anne Rice books for deviating from the original, critics have been praising this show to no end — and justifiably so. The showrunners took the original book and ran with it. They spun it into a retelling that is fresh and original, standing on the shoulders of a giant to create something new, while still preserving the core, the heart of the story.

Specifically, the choice of making Louis — originally a slave plantation owner — black, brings a whole new level of meaning, depth, and complexity into the narrative. It exposes the viewers to a culture and experience that the source material could never dream of. Even as its own text, without regard to the source material, this show does its job incredibly well. Its beautiful cinematography makes every episode a delight to behold.

And therein lies the problem — when something that does so very well on literally every level fails so hard in this. Interview With the Vampire is a very bisexual book. Though very little is explicit and on the surface, the subtext is rich with it. In addition, Louis tells about his love for a woman named Babette Freniere, which continues even after Lestat turns him into a vampire.

Their relationship is consistently described in terms that blend and obscure the boundary between fatherly and romantic love. All the while, during this part of the book, Armand also is trying to court Louis ultimately successfully, once Claudia dies. So, Louis is bisexual. Moving on, both Interview With the Vampire and the Vampire Chronicles book series in general, make it abundantly clear that Lestat is bisexual.

Lestat is the one to seek out the relationship with Louis and turn him into a vampire. And throughout the Vampire Chronicles , Lestat has relationships, both romantic and erotic, with several women and men. Daniel is also bisexual. The book is not biphobic in its representation and storytelling. It becomes respectability politics when in response, we demand that bisexual characters be made respectable.

Pointing out biphobic tropes , in itself, is not biphobic. Out of three bisexual main characters, only one is left. First and foremost, this change betrays somewhat of a bifurcated perception of bisexual identity and attraction, i. We can only guess what motivated the showrunners to make this change. One option is that they wanted to tick more representation boxes.

Whereas this has also been the case for representations of gay people in the past, it has overwhelmingly changed over the last 20 years. Though queer coding villains is still a prevalent practice, explicitly gay characters are not so often cast in such a role anymore. But bi characters are. Yet another possible reason for this is the association between bisexuality and whiteness.

Meanwhile blackness, like gayness, is an oppressed identity that is actually perceived as oppressed. As I noted above, this trope suggests that everyone is actually bisexual.