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23: 'Salem's Lot with Bryan Fuller

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Book Review - The Monster Kid

There's such a profound queer reading of this novel, because mark, at the beginning, is called faggot. And like for me, as a gay kid growing up in small town america, knowing that i had to keep my mouth shut about that,. Just out of social darwinism. So what what king does so brilliantly is that he delivers the vampire menace into the small community as the thing that they're already talking about being better than or is sort of an evil in its own way. Is a gay couple who are coming into town and opening an antique store. There's there's nothing more queer about that than, you know, a middle aged european couple

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