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“I hear the water in Arkansas is … very hard.”
In the True Blood universe, when a human drinks a vampire’s blood, one of the more exciting side-effects is rather sexual dreams about that vamp. The Fellowship of the Sun is a clear stand-in for various religious organizations who fund TV advertisements that broadcast vampires as dangerous.
As the show continued, its supernatural aspect expanded to include other fantasy beings: werewolves, fairies, witches and more.
After hearing news of a True Blood reboot, we can’t help but wonder how the new True Blood will represent LGBTQ characters. Duggan, Lisa. What’s not to love?
5. It’s just too bad those cameras didn’t tilt down a little further.6.
Very early on in the show’s first season, we’re brought to the diner where Lafayette and Sookie work. As Ball said, vampires are "amoral."
One of the most controversial scenes in the show, however, is from the episode "It Hurts Me Too". Like many contemporary gay men within Western society, however, the vampires of True Blood are simultaneously tolerated and yet intolerable.
In his discussion of the lack of identification offered to him as a gay male spectator of vampire cinema, Hanson refers to the Hammer vampire films and those of the early 1980s as providing a ‘heterosexualized’ space ‘in which the revenant as sexual deviant is neither to be identified with nor desired … the polymorphous is again relegated to its familiar abjected space’ 140 TRUE BLOOD (Hanson 1991, 330).
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. Case, Sue Ellen. 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.
The show lasted for seven seasons, full of vampires, werewolves, fairies, shape-shifters, ghosts, and killers, and creator Alan Ball seemed to have only one directive, and that was to turn everything up. — before, sadly, Jason wakes up … in church. ‘Children of the Night: Vampirism as Homosexuality, Homosexuality as Vampirism.’ In Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender, and Popular Fiction, ed.
Stay tuned for more info on the True Blood reboot, which we can’t help but expect to have a ton of gay storylines!
This article was originally published on January 20, 2021. Online at: http:// www.blooferland.com/drc/index.php?title=Journal_of_Dracula_Studies. ‘I think the obvious parallel is between vampires and the gay community.
These references are meant to draw upon audience sympathy, but don't fit when the show has vampires acting on their violent instincts in ways they’ve behaved for centuries. As the seasons wore on, the show would lean on Skarsgard to bring that blend of sex and violence to basically all his other storylines, but you always remember your first, and the thrill that True Blood would go there was truly a memorable TV moment.
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True Blood Isn’t An Allegory For Gay Rights (No Matter What Fans Think)
Despite some obvious parallels that have been drawn by fans of the series, show creator Alan Ball insists that True Blood isn’t an allegory for gay rights.
True Blood, created by Alan Ball and based on the book series by Charlaine Harris, is a show about how vampires, thanks to the existence of a synthetic blood substitute called TruBlood, “come out of the coffin” and attempt to assimilate with the human world.
In an article with the New York Post, he said: “To look at these vampires on the show as metaphors for gays and lesbians is so simple and so easy, that it’s kind of lazy.” He also stated the allegory could be “very homophobic because vampires are dangerous: They kill, they’re amoral.” Some fans believe the allegory is obvious, Alan Ball believes it’s dangerous, and it turns out they're both right.
The vampires in the show have displayed questionable morality, which makes their symbolic depiction as gay people highly problematic.
Ken Gelder. 2008.