Tod Browning’s Homosexual Dracula

Although some moviegoer argues about how Dracula showcases as heterosexual. However, in Tod Browning’s film “Dracula” (1931), Dracula portrays homosexuality in a kinky way. Even though this film functions largely as a relic from 88 years ago, the gay community is still fighting for their freedom rights. Heterosexuals are individuals who are considered by society as “straight”. They have quality or characteristic of being sexually attracted solely to people of the opposite sex. On the other hand, Homosexuals are individuals who are considered as “gay or lesbians”, they have romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

Plenty of people around us still feel pressure to hide their sexual identity. “Sexual identity is also now part of official government statistics. As part of its huge household survey, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found 1.1% reported their identity as gay or lesbian – roughly the same as Natsal.” (Spiegel halter). People still have had an illusion where they think people are straight and should be married to their opposite sex. Where other hand gay people had rights and social advances, but we still live in a heteronormative society, where people who are biologically male marry people who are biologically female, and when they have babies, they raised them to do the same as well.

However, when they get to know that when one of their family member or friend is gay, they have a hard time to accept sexual difference and integrate their nontraditional reality. Sexuality and homosexuality are always have been part of vampire stories since at least the 19th century. They use the vampire characters as a metaphor for their own sexuality was an outlet for self-expression in a time of extreme marginalization and fear for gay people. Vampires can be used as a “window” on the gay culture of the corresponding era, particularly in modern American film and television. There are several homoerotic scenes in Dracula (1931). In this article Dracula and Desire, author Richard Dyer is trying to say that Dracula is heterosexual, and he is fulfilling the female desire. A woman like this kind of aggressive man in their lives in order to get what they want.

“Dracula is the representation of heterosexual male sexuality. It is ugly beneath the dandy veneer lurks slug like, leech like desire: but it’s what women want, even in its ugliness.” (Dyer). Though Dyer’s claim that Dracula is heterosexual and only like woman, can narrow our perspective in some cases such when in the beginning it shows Dracula has three wives, it is not true in some cases because Dracula is homosexual as when Renfield fainted and three sinister shows up to take pleasure of Renfield, but they stop when Dracula appears to take pleasure of Renfield’s body.

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