Anne Rice's Impact on the Gay Community Remembered
Channel: Queer News Tonight
Date: 2021-12-23

Famed novelist Anne Rice passed away Saturday at the age of 80. While she will first and foremost be remembered as an iconic writer of gothic horror — most notably for her Vampire Chronicles series — her advocacy for LGBTQ rights and steadfast support of her enthusiastic, gay fan base would become an essential part of her legacy. Her son, Christopher Rice, who is gay and is himself an accomplished writer, shared the news of his mother’s passing on her Facebook page. Rice wrote the first and most famous book in the Vampire Chronicles series, “Interview With the Vampire,” in 1976. At the time, she was mourning the loss of her 5-year-old daughter, Michele, one of her two children with poet Stan Rice. The domestic plotline and erotic dialogue made the novel ripe for queer readings, which Rice would confirm over the years. In a 2012 interview, she called Louis and Lestat the “first vampire same-sex parents.” And she later said that Claudia was likely unconsciously inspired by her daughter, while she and Stan were the inspirations for her vampire fathers. In a 2017 interview, she said regarding the many queer characters in her books, “I think I have a gay sensibility and I feel like I’m gay, because I’ve always transcended gender, and I’ve always seen love as transcending gender. In my books, I’ve always created bonds of love that have transcended gender.”

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