
23: 'Salem's Lot with Bryan Fuller
The Kingcast
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The Queerness of Salem's Lot, It's Pre Aids
There's this wonderful marblization of celebration of other as hero in a horror story that king embraces, whether consciously or unconscious. One of the brilliant things about the aides crisis and its kind of efficiency in villanizing queer people, is that it brought to the surface everybody was already thinking, is that you're diseased or diseased of the mind. So now it's only appropriate that the disease of the body takes over. Two perceived queer men coming into a small community brought disease and brought death to everybody. There's even no commentary in the boarding house when they're talking about a different sort of, you know, women's rights and even gay rights,. You knowas a last
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