Is dracula gay

Like how the character Dracula was perhaps not based off of Vlad the Impaler, but the Hungarian figure Elizabeth Bathory instead.1 Or that Bram Stoker himself was a closeted queer man who was once friends with the very gay author Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray) up until Wilde was tried and convicted of sodomy.2 What can I say, the.

In reading "Dracula" one might be surprised or even confused with the frequency that sex and sexual imagery are discussed. Stoker himself was a closeted gay man who pined for affection from.