Are gays overrepresented among horror story creators and if so why?

[Neil]

Gayness is even worse than Irishness, although not by much.

[Razgovory]

Gayness is even worse than Irishness, although not by much.

Poor Wellington.

[Sheilbh]

I think we can all agree that Martinus is a overly dramatic fag for starting this thread.

And how

Personally, I'm glad that the tweeners and soccer moms have co-opted the Vampire Motif from the gays.   That Anne Rice nonsense has been annoying for 20 years.

I don't know.  At least Anne Rice vampires are in the whole Romantic Byronic hero tradition.  Edward Cullen just needs to grow a pair.

I'm saddened at the tweenish love for quiveringly weak excuses of men

[Valmy]

CdM, I could just as well turn the question around and ask why do you consider yourself Irish (to the point of having donated or at least verbally supported the IRA) even though you do not have any real connection to Ireland.

People crave identity, validation (as you put that) and sense of community. This sense of identity is both inclusionary ("there are other people like me") and exclusionary ("I'm different from other people because..."). Gays are a curious minority however because there is no inheritable culture there for obvious reasons (unlike the Jews, or the Irish, or the blacks, you can't just look to your parents for the cultural traits) - and since our own ethnic cultures usually (at least until recently) reject us, we try to find that kind of heritage in the "gays of old".

I think this is pretty obvious psychologically.

Which is why nationalism is another (and far larger) indentity that causes problems.

[HVC]

Sheilbh likes the bears

[garbon]

I claim Californian ancestry, and I will fight to the death to keep it that way.

Oh me too! Actually though I don't claim ancestry - I am a California!

[Martinus]

You 20-something fags are hopeless. My bf is like that too. Not a single idealistic/revolutionary bone in you. 

[garbon]

You 20-something fags are hopeless. My bf is like that too. Not a single idealistic/revolutionary bone in you. 

Why do we need to be revolutionary? We've already gotten most of what we want.

[Martinus]

You 20-something fags are hopeless. My bf is like that too. Not a single idealistic/revolutionary bone in you. 

Why do we need to be revolutionary? We've already gotten most of what we want.

It's fun. But I mellowed out, mostly, recently. I just do it because I like to annoy people.

[crazy canuck]

Marti, do you honestly believe that is the reason people find you annoying?

[Sheilbh]

You 20-something fags are hopeless. My bf is like that too. Not a single idealistic/revolutionary bone in you. 

There's nothing revolutionary or idealistic about trawling Wikipedia looking for 'Personal life and sexuality' sections

You want to celebrate gay culture go read the bloody Sonnets - or watch Derek Jarman's 'The Angelic Conversation', a film accompanying them being read by Judi Dench - don't start threads about 'The Lost Boys'.

I'm glad that Marty has proven himself useful and validated my theories.

Marti's really marshalling homosexuality into his own thing.  It's not about the gays it's about Martiism.

Why do we need to be revolutionary? We've already gotten most of what we want.

To smash the rich?

[Valmy]

Gayness is even worse than Irishness, although not by much.

Poor Wellington.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

[Valmy]

It's fun. But I mellowed out, mostly, recently. I just do it because I like to annoy people.

I knew it!

[Sheilbh]

Sheilbh likes the bears

Wolves.  Wolves

[The Larch]

So, what about Bram Stoker?