Gawker Explains the Connection between Gays and Vampires

The theory that teen girls are suddenly all about vampires because they want to have sex with gay men is interesting. Also, total crap.

On Esquire.com today, Stephen Marche tries to explain the surge in vampire frenzy (see the Twilight books and movies, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, and more) by saying it is fueled by girls’ desires to bed down with their gay brothers.

Edward, the romantic hero of the Twilight series, is a sweet, screwed-up high school kid, and at the beginning of his relationship with Bella, she is attracted to him because he is strange, beautiful, and seemingly repulsed by her. This exact scenario happened several times in my high school between straight girls and gay guys who either hadn’t figured out they were gay or were still in the closet. Twilight’s fantasy is that the gorgeous gay guy can be your boyfriend, and for the slightly awkward teenage girls who consume the books and movies, that’s the clincher.
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