A Bisexual History of Dracula 

As a bisexual woman this would not be canon so I would like that, because I’m not so insecure that need everything to revolve around me and reflect my sexuality. That said if a bisexual or gay vampire comes out I’m not opposed to it. I just like my fiction to remain canon one reason that Twilight sux, and I’m not fond of the changed to the Abramsverse of Star Trek though many of the new movies are good except for the digital lenses flairs.

This was so delightful in all the ways. Love from an American bisexual woman married to a European bisexual man.

Vampires don't belive in sexuality

U discuss dracula but u include interview with a vampire why same thing very different approach yes lestat was bi but it wasn't the focus louie was

@Troy Michael been misinformed

I would like a roomate but i live in a closet in my parents house.

Omg they where roommates

@@lucie8827 same-

@@classichorrorenthusiast i call my cat my roomate now xD

@@lucie8827 what's your cat's name, if you don't mind my asking?

He would so do that.

@@wandanemer2630 so true

HE WOULD ABSOLUTELY DO THAT OMFG HES SUCH A LIL SHIT AHAH

@@Alina_Schmidt I think he's very sensitive to skewing to the popular opinion so he'd go the lengths just to say contrarian shit just for the sake of it.

I was going to say something similar 😭 I hate that it's true

It's the chaotic evil equivalent to, "I thought you only killed boys. / I go both ways," from Jennifer's Body.

“Bi-homicidal” then why did he want to keep Jonathan as his bride? Yes I know the cannon explanation would be because Jonathan was the first to have free will or something, not sure what it was but I think that was why, but then why use the word Bride?

@@fruitygarlic3601 XD yasss

I thought it was a bad-landed joke?

@@giuseppemassari9970 so a normal Moffat joke then?

Same.

Saaaame. I love when they go bitey bite.

Same

same😂😂

Same

Wilde was full gay so was byron stoker STRAIGHT

Dorian Gray was practically a love letter to a sociopath. But Lord have mercy that writer could describe a beautiful man.

@@ratuse hint Oscar wilde was gay

@@davidkay1948 yes, I think that's pretty much common knowledge.

​@@davidkay1948And a statutory rapist, but people don't like talking about that bit.

Yeah, the problem with Dracula is not that he's a sexy bi, but that he's a rich aristocratic man.

He could be openly bi in this version but the focus would be that all his victims are young university students, with most of them being 18 or 19. Maybe he tries to convince them to come to him by offering internships and experience in traveling to a foreign country.

@@Sytheduke OH MY GOD WE MADE JAMES CHARLES THE ENCARNATION OF BYRONIC FEAR OF OUR TIMES!!!

I think having a vampire be a rich person abusing their power is a fear that can hold up without becoming dated.

Oh my god yess

gonna start using imbo in everything from now on thanks

The original novel by Bram Stoker doesn't have any inference whatsoever about Count Dracula being gay or bisexual : end of discussion ! - GO READ THE BOOK

@@filipematias5127 did u even watch the video or are you just homophobic?

@@Faith-wz7hu Did you read and understand my comment or are you a snowflake political correctness freak...??? Go read the book : in the original novel Count Dracula isn't straight, gay or bisexual - he is an undead being, a vampire predator who feeds on human blood ! This discussion is silly regarding the original Count Dracula character by Bram Stoker !!!

@@filipematias5127 literally just watch the video

and also lets not forget that lord byron's daughter, ada lovelace, went on to become the worlds first computer programmer and a famous mathematician

@@svscrib8922 I will have to look into that. Intriguing

@@seanraines5871 extremely, i was freaking out when i made the connection

@@svscrib8922 ADA LOVELACE WAS LORD BYRON'S DAUGHTER?!?!?!? That's amazing! This feels as earth shattering as when I found out Mary Shelley was the daughter of Mary Wollostonecraft.

@@kayzmavc4596 WHAT ?? this just keeps getting better and better, thank you for sharing this, i had no idea!

lmao that's amazing

Ngl, my deadass brain read the name as James Deen and got a different imagery for a second.

True!

Nailed it

He even ate all the other immigrants on the boat!

Bloody Draculas comin' over 'ere suckin' all our necks.

I love pp 😍

@@apollo6519 omg same 😘

@@gh0sty_269 same

But early vampire stories don't really represent the vampire as bisexual, as much as they represent it as sexually decadent and deviant, traits often assigned to the aristocracy in the past and to the capitalist class today. On top of that, Dracula and other vampires from those times don't represent capitalism; they were mostly aristocrats, a dying social class that disappeard thanks to capitalism, industrialization and the enlightenment.

I think an interesting aspect though is the fact that Dracula is seeking to purchas land in England. There's definitely the "spooky immigrant" aspect, especially as England has no lack of its own aristocrats, but I also felt almost a sense that he could at least be easily formed to represent the aristocrat refashioning himself into the capitalist in the new era.

@@transitoryloving4261 well said, that is also because the bisexual or homosexual identity didn’t exist at the time, the categories were invented later on.

@@transitoryloving4261 100%

@@inferiorinferno8859 I have to say I laughed when you said "Dracula for one, was clearly a straight dude that was experimenting around with men" "he's not bisexual guys, he's straight man who experiments with men" That gave a me a good laugh, I have to give you props for that. Listen kid, just because you don't like it doesn't negate all the instances in both literature and cinema of something existing. The argument: "the original dracula wasn't bisexual and wasn't a metaphor for colonialism, therefore all the adaptations of bisexual vampires/colonialist vampires is wrong" is by far one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. If you're offended by reality I guess that makes you a snowflake or something, is that the word that's used? But then, you're a person that uses "woke" unironically which makes you sound unintelligent. If I had a pound for every person that cried "Oh no, woke sjw feminists politics are ruining movies" I'd buy a car. It makes you sound whiny.

Me me

Same thing happened to me! Isn't it bironic?

Same!

Oh the birony

I mean... it works either way.

I think its both.like a pun!

I was just thinking the same. I don't think I went around thinking Dracula was bisexual but from most literature and film he clearly was (especially the Byronic types). He basically seduces people in order to drink their blood, men or women. The charged, hypnotic air. Necks being barred and bitten. The person being bitten feeling some kinda pleasure with the pain. In film in general, if men commit violence on other men that kinda closeness and sensuality seems pretty uncommon unless one of the guys is (or is implied) gay or bisexual. That level of intimacy with violence is either gonna be unnerving or titillating to most people watching.

Reading it again and YEAH

@@NigerianKitchen The coding written in the book made it very astonishing to me, how few people caught on there. Dracula is increadably posessiv of him, despite not planing on feeding from him, he speaks of love quite passionatly in direct context to Jonathan, he went through a lot of effort in keeping Jonathans stay as pleasent and least threatening as possible, intent on spending time with him, despite not really having a good reason for it, always insisting on them being friends until death, laying his hand on his the first night of Jonathans stay, but retracting it at Jonathans noticable discomfort . . . also, him going after Mina had nothing to do with her, but was all about Jonathan . . . As with what you discibed, the queercoding of vampires as predators makes sense. Sexuell interesst and advances of someone you are not into, or are into against your will are uncomfortable to threatening, no matter your sexuality, but for being straight is more commen, same sex attraction is the one more likely to make one uncomfortable, especialy in a society where it is demonised and outlawed

To me he just seemed like a really capable loving housewife. He's good at cooking, cleaning and entertaining his guests.

Back then there was no such thing lol

Woo hoo!!

What We Do in the Shadows has ONLY bi vampires! 💖💜💙

yes that’s what I was thinking lol

I don't remember that... It seems like it was way too long since I read the book.

That's true, in the show. And in the book, her and Lucy have a very... romantic friendship, also.

@@KarlKristofferJohnsson I meant on the show's first episode

@@professormoriarty1428 Ah, that makes sense. I would probably remember bisexual implications from the book.

@@wandanemer2630 in the 1992 version as well

As you should

Make it a video essay! Maybe you can get featured or linked!

Agreed , Lestat and Louis were/are vampire versions of myself and my boyfriend of 10yrs. Interestingly enough we both identify as bisexual despite being in a serious long term gay relationship

@@talonshadows4587 well, when you find the one then you’ve found the one. Their gender might be the last thing on your mind when you’re secure about your own sexuality

@@talonshadows4587 I mean I would say many bi people if not most bi people continue to identify as bi even if they found the 'one' bc it's just being truthful lol. if you're bi you're bi. also if you have a history of dating men and women and being attracted to them, then there's no issue still identifying as such. a person does not change someone's sexuality etc. etc.....

I've seen similar any time lesbian or bi women from that time period are re-analyzed now. Just reminds me that even Anne Lister's stupid male relatives didn't want her coded journals getting "out."

honestly i always figure he wasn't bi or straight. He was no longer human and we were his food, when i eat pork i don't care if i what sex the pig i am eating is. Now going form the original black and white movie (since i didn't read the book) i am with he always seem to be bi as he didn't care where the blood came from.

The original novel by Bram Stoker doesn't have any inference whatsoever about Count Dracula being gay or bisexual : he is an undead vampire predator who drinks HUMAN blood - END OF DISCUSSION ! (Edit : 🌘🕷️🕸️)

Not even a quarter of the way into rereading and drinking blood is directly compared to love. But alright.

Interesting!

Miriam Blaylock in "The Hunger" comes to mind.

Honestly, thats what I was thinking. Like you’re alive for so long as a vampire that you’d eventually get bored or curious. Then again, I’m like super fluid in who I find attractive and I know some ppl say they’re super straight (lmao) but I feel after thousands of years, it wouldn’t be surprising if vampires would be open to the other sex lol

Bless.

Him and Anderson could sink the titanic if it crashed into them, that's how sharp their romantic tensions were, especially in the Abridged.

@@mr.p215 I havent seen it but just reading that sentence was pleasing.

Well since it was made by Japanese people, their culture thinks you should keep that to yourself and doesn't like it very much, and plus they probably weren't even thinking of a random vampire characters sexuality in castlevania lol

. . . oh dear, unsure if I would call the disaster that is alucard abridged bi, given he himself claims no one could even comprehend his sexuality . . . but yeah, he showed interest in both sexes so it at least partialy counts ^^

LMAO omg that's amazing. XD

How interesting

Cool!

The gospel version of a byronic hero

It reminds me of the tragic life of John Laurens. He was also forced to be married to a girl and raise their daughter together to not bring shame to her family as he impregnated her out of wedlock. But he was so often away at war that I don't think he cared too much about them.

If vampires were former humans doesn’t that play into it. If someone was straight as a human I can’t imagine that changing once they become vampires. Likewise if someone was already gay or bisexual before becoming human. I’m aroace and no way in hell is that changing. Even if I become a vampire. At the end of the day vampires are former humans. And no one sexuality would be considered making them a unicorn

@@moondivine2288 I feel like If someone is straight and is turned into a vampire it just doesn’t work. They turn to dust or something lol

@@ollieno971 sexuality shouldn’t be a factor. And honestly i don’t get the argument behind it. I love cake yet I’m not marrying it. Dracula threw a baby at the brides…that right there would have some dark implications. I’m not defending anyone. As a asexual it would be nice to imagine vampire me still ace. People, no matter their sexuality should be able to dream of themselves as vampires. 🤷‍♀️

What could anyone cancel Abigail about? Lol

@@azuregriffin1116 no the play was canceled just before lockdown

A person of culture I see

agree, there is no way the count did not have a thing for jonathan, the hints are everywhere

Bring tan and bronze doesn’t necessarily mean Van Hellsing is POC. I have seen white people that fit that description. Nina Dobrev fits that description for me. Tv trope wise it’s also the dark type and handsome

Here I am being messy in the youtube comments, asking what this gay dracula porn was called.

@@ProgressiveBoink

My dog is asking for the link you know....

The 'first Icelandic translation' of Dracula is also very much clear about Dracula's plans for Jonathan - but then, this book has one chapter in common with the English version, everything else is more or less the translator's own story. It's published under the title 'Powers of Darkness' now.

damned, thats good!!!

Hi, I know it's late, but what video was that? I'm interested in watching that

Are we??? Exciting!

They are absolutely a polycule and I will not shut up about this.

Yep, when I read the novel, I really pegged Seward/Holmwood and Lucy/Mina. And Van Helsing with someone else, but I can't remember.

Hell yes, Lucy was very interested even lamenting outright, that marrying all 3 was not an option. She was faithful cause society demanded it, but nowerdays that could have been a polycule, especialy with how respectful accepting and not jalouse the guys reacted to her choice! A great fanfiction waiting to happen . . .

Ditto re: Barnabas. Also, the fanged four from Buffy were basically a semi-incestuous poly family for several decades, with bisexual relationships among all four members being heavily and often implied. Did we get any bi TV vamps in this video essay, or were they all just book and movie vamps?