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Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we continue our Halloween season exploration of how various horror sub-genres reflect the queer experience with 1970’s The Vampire Lovers.This week, we sink our teeth—or rather, our fangs—into the history of vampires, particularly as the embodiment of queer desire, eroticism, and one of the earliest and most consistent symbols and icons of lesbianism.Although Dracula is undoubtedly the most famous vampire in popular culture (with hundreds of appearances, he is the second most portrayed figure in film history, second only to Sherlock Holmes), and most of the preconceptions of what we think a vampire is and acts like derives from him, Drac’s not the first vampiric figure to exist in fiction. Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Before Bram Stoker’s tale in 1897, there were portrayals of vampiric-like characters in poems, weekly penny dreadfuls, and short stories.

[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora] Este año Art Basel Paris estrenará Premise, una nueva sección de exposiciones que pretende ser más inclusiva en el tipo de arte que suele exhibirse en las ferias de arte. “Todos entendemos el canon del arte como algo muy rígido y cuyas definiciones pueden parecer impermeables”, dijo Clément Delépine, director de Art Basel Paris.

It’s unclear if Todd Haynes will ever return to his shelved queer romance drama after Joaquin Phoenix dropped out of the project just days before filming was set to begin. But if Haynes still wants to make it, Lewis Pullman is happy to take on Phoenix’s role.

Phillip Butler, left, and Joe Anderson Jr. in Patches: A Black Gay Man’s Journey to the Moon launches Bishop Arts Theatre Center’s new season. (Photos by Frank Washington)

TGIF! We’ve made it to the weekend again! A lot happened this week. Here are some of the highlights…WELCOME TO THE PARTY: The New York Times declared daddies are officially in! [Read more]SMOOTH OPERATOR: Ricky Martin shaved it all off for his latest TV role.