I see a beautiful gay man in the park and I say, “That man has my body”. (...) I felt like a gay man in a woman’s body.
I knew when I was young, about twenty-four, that I wished I was a gay man. That was a common fantasy of mine. I felt that the physical response I had to men must mean I’m like a gay man. I identified with the way gay men talked about other men. I felt like an imposter as a woman. – Anne Rice, The Roquelaure Reader
this is exactly the same thing Billy Martin (nee Poppy Z Brite, and he’s fine with people referring to his pre-transition name) said about his vampires (the main book is called Lost Souls and there are a few others in the same setting) before he transitioned. there’s definitely a commonality here with writers of vampire fiction
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