Dracula gay

Little could I have known, of course, what these Dracula-imaginings were going to come to represent in my life. At that age, I was only beginning to perceive the dichotomy between hegemony and otherness; let alone my place in the scheme of it. How could I have known that my affinity for vampires was a hint as to the man I would grow up to be?

Dracula’s greatest triumph: The vampire as a queer liberator

Burton, meanwhile, plays Mina and a feminist female Dr. In every joke, in the costumes by Tristan Raines, in the playful usage of drag, and in the very essence of the alluring title figure, this show is heavily leaning into gay camp. The original text itself is very gay, and an issue contemporary Dracula adaptors have is that they feel the need to update the source material to make it queerer and have more to say about gender.

You see, I have called you by your name. I have been more candid with you—have said more about myself to you than I have ever said to anyone before. Having finally bared his soul to his literary idol, Stoker stuck the letter in his drawer, and did not actually work up the nerve to mail it for four more years.

His role as Irish outsider may have further allowed Stoker to identify with the Jews as outcasts. This personal self-loathing may have made Stoker both sympathize with Dracula and simultaneously detest him. Besides his possible personal identification with the Jews as outcasts, Stoker was very interested in the legend of the Wandering Jew, whose attributes are echoed in Dracula.