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12). Poor Talbot (Theo Alexander) thought he was getting himself a little fun, while Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) had other plans in mind for his big finish.
3. The Fellowship of the Sun is a clear stand-in for various religious organizations who fund TV advertisements that broadcast vampires as dangerous. So now, with the True Blood reboot on its way, we thought it’d be fun to relive some of our favorite gay True Blood scenes.
‘Tracking the Vampire.’ In The Horror Reader, ed. Enjoy!
1. In other words, it was everything that True Blood was all about. TV history is being made, day in and day out, in ways big and small. “I’m crazy about her … but I can’t get you out of my head.”
Yet another of the show’s vampire blood-induced dreams, this one saw two of gay audiences’ favorite characters, Jason Stackhouse and Eric Northman, get it on.
“God Hates Fangs” is one letter away from a well-known slur toward the LGBTQ community. “There’s a lot of pervs in this town.”
When Jason Stackhouse (Ryan Kwanten) needs cash, Lafayette convinces him there are plenty of people in Bon Temps, Louisiana, who would pay good money to him shimmy. Duggan, Lisa. Despite this, Lorena still proclaims her love for Bill.
In the same vein, Poppy Z. Brite’s short story And His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood (1995) perpetuates the bacchanalian bloodlust of historical gay male vampires in New Orleans and her gay vampire novel Lost Souls (1992) centres upon human/vampire hybrid Ghost and his desire to formulate an alternative but ultimately self-destructive family unit of queer1 vampires.
Hanson extrapolates this point, arguing that it is ‘extremely important to avoid the gaze of the gay man for fear of being seduced (or recognizing oneself in the Other)’ (Hanson, 1991, 329). This is not new, however, and gay men have always been stigmatized as vampiric, or as Hanson says ‘as sexually exotic, alien, unnatural, oral, anal, compulsive, violent, protean, polymorphic, polyvocal, polysemous, invisible, soulless, transient, superhumanly mobile, infectious, murderous, suicidal, and a threat to wife, children, home and phallus’ (Hanson 1991, 325).
A vampire getting dragged behind a car reminds audiences of the 1998 lynching of James Byrd, Jr. A group of vampires trapped in a shower and then killed recalls the gas chambers of the Holocaust. Moretti, Franco. Such few Hollywood projects allow their male characters to bare all (though you can check out this roundup of 30 films that had the “balls” to include male nudity on-screen), but True Blood went there!