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- From: forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Forbis )
- Subject: Re: Rice characters are New Orleans gays??
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:33:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.173039.3631@nic.csu.net> beth@nermal.SantaRosa.Edu (Beth Winegarner) writes:
- >Path: news.cis.umn.edu!umn.edu!spool.mu.edu!wupost!usc!nic.csu.net!nermal.SantaRosa.Edu!beth
- >Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
- >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>
- >Organization: Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
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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
- >
- >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.
- >
- >
- I just finished _Prism of the Night_, where Rice is quoted saying just the
- _opposite_ of the above: the vampires weren't written with gays in mind.
- This was an interpretation imposed by reviewers. Rice said the parallels
- exist, but weren't deliberately created.
-
- Rice explored open sexuality and androgyny; I suspect that she'd find the
- label "homoeroticism" confining, if the characters were to be confined to
- that label.
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- Eric Forbis forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu
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