6. Interview with the Vampire: The Future Liberals Want

We’re sinking our teeth into the 1994 film adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. If an abundance of beautiful, long haired men making googly eyes at one another wasn’t enough to qualify this as a queer text, consider the vampire as a metaphor for queer sexualities and also that absolutely everyone in this movie is gay. Don’t believe us? Wait until we talk about Kirsten Dunst. We talk about the queer family unit, positive (and negative) queer mentorship, and the paradox of technically sexless yet extremely homoerotically charged male companions. This text is rich, ya’ll! Additional Reading: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (all of it, tbh) but for a relevant introduction, start with S2E03 “School Hard,” in which a vampire named Spike laughingly remarks that “people still fall for that Anne Rice routine.” Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Extra Credit: Follow us at @wedidthereading Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchetti