Children of the Night

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xmz-p9FYW8

“Listen to them—

Children of the Night”

—Bela Lugosi, DRACULA

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● Gay Identity Politics

● Queens of the Id

● Queer Vampirehood

● Fag Filmography

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GAY IDENTITY POLITICS

Nothing has seemed more—

Like a mystery wrapped up

Inside an enigma and

Hidden behind a curtain—

As gay identity politics has

Been for me, my dears

It’s like dreaming—

Each time I wake up

And remember myself

I realize that nothing—

Could be more unique

Gay identity in dreaming

QUEENS OF THE ID

Call it uncanny—

Or lucid dreaming

It’s always different

As different as each—

Dream denouement of

My so-so faggy self

Is there a poetics—

Are there genres of

Gay dream identities?

QUEER VAMPIREHOOD

Queer Theory queens—

Seem to say that there’s 

No such thing as “queer”

Yet what could be more—

Queer than my tres gay

Faggoty unconscious?

The Queens of the Id—

Whoever they are can

Certainly dish it out

Call it drag, cabaret—

Burlesque, vaudeville

It’s all so very queer

FAG FILMOGRAPHY

Miss Murnau with her—

NOSFERATU niggling

Nightmare Vampirehood 

Miss Whale along with—

Miss Ernest Thesiger in

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

DRACULA’S DAUGHTERS—

Fag Hags of the Night

Madame Zaleska 

Gay identity flaunts—

Itself both in dreams

And Midnight Movies