o genre across film and television is as camp as horror. Both the origins of the genre - and those viewing it - have shaped how it presents itself today. This link has been long-established. Horror was born out of the 19th century Gothic era, a time woven with stories of queer-coded monsters with sprawling exposed guts and blood-thirsty vampires. From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Dracula to the 1936 film the Dracula’s Daughter, the cornerstones of supernatural media have frequently included LGBTQ+ undertones. “The lesbian vampire as a queer figure is very emblematic of the age in which the stories about her are taking place,” Annie Rose Malamet, a lesbian vampire expert, writer, and podcast host tells GAY TIMES. “For example, in the 30s, a lot of the focus was on modern psychoanalysis, and the idea that queer
