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Bonus! Plumbing Dracula's Gay Depths (aka Did Bram Stoker have a Crush on Walt Whitman?) (Patreon)

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2026-10-18 16:00:28

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2026-10-23 05:42:08

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Was Bram Stoker horny for Walt Whitman? It certainly seems like that may have been the case. Bram did send a very flirtatious letter to Walt, years before Bram wrote Dracula. And Dracula may itself be based on Walt Whitman's book erotic gay poetry. So we're going to be looking into that in this week's bonus video!

Also, in week's bonus video I mentioned how Fox attempted to turn Black Swan into a campy midnight movie by advertising free screenings hosted by drag queens around the country. There was some interest in that weird effort, so I dug around and unearthed some promo materials and also my photos from a screening in San Francisco! Here's a photo gallery, and this does not begin to capture how COMPLETELY aware everyone was that the movie studio was trying to make fetch happen but at least some drag queens got paid.

Backup link to the bonus video: https://youtu.be/3IPtvG4w75A

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Bonus! Plumbing Dracula's Gay Depths (aka Did Bram Stoker have a Crush on Walt Whitman?)

Was Bram Stoker horny for Walt Whitman? It certainly seems like that may have been the case. Bram did send a very flirtatious letter to Walt, years before Bram wrote Dracula. And Dracula may itself be based on Walt Whitman's book erotic gay poetry. So we're going to be looking into that in this week's bonus video!