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- Subject: Re: Rice characters are New Orleans gays??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.173039.3631@nic.csu.net>
- From: beth@nermal.SantaRosa.Edu (Beth Winegarner)
- Date: 25 Dec 92 17:30:38 PST
- References: <1992Dec17.225134.28953@news.unomaha.edu> <105543@bu.edu>
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- >I think, we forgot to mention that there is NO sexual acts
- >on the part of the vampires. There is sensuality, which is
- >an artistic view of the beauty within the persons included
- >in her books. Never once did I read that intercourse took
- >place with a vampire with the victims or the other vampires.
- >Mac
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- Who says homosexuality exists in the sexual act alone? It doesn't; and if
- you read the biography of Anne Rice ("Prism of the Night" by Katherine
- Ramsland, a must for any Rice fan) you'll see that some of her vampires are
- mirrors for the gays she knew while she lived in San Francisco. Whether or
- not they're sexually active has nothing to do with it (Rice's vampires
- cann't have real sexual intercourse, anyways); but in her books, the sharing
- of blood is a metaphor for the sexual act (penetration... sharing of juices..
- the passion, etc...). Not only that, but the clear affection between
- several of the male vampires more than suggests homoeroticism.
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