Monosexual for Eternity? I Don’t Think So: Of Course Vampires Are Bi+

They seduce, they survive, and they stay centuries ahead of binaries.

I have a confession. I love vampires.

If you asked me if I read the Twilight series with a ferocity that should have qualified me for state-mandated therapy, I’d tell you no. If you asked me the same question while I was hooked up to a lie detector, I’d tell you the truth.

My love for vampires was, at one point in my life, my entire personality.

The only thing keeping me from being a full-on goth girly was poverty and my living in a conservative city (seriously, my aunt called my mom to see if I was depressed because my MySpace song was an instrumental cover of Evanescence. I was depressed for other reasons).

So I did what any 2000s bisexual teen might do: I consumed vampire romance novels with religious devotion. I clawed my way through Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles (even though I didn’t enjoy them at the time). I watched every scrap of vampire media I could get my hands on. I couldn’t get enough.

As I got older, I realized my obsession had less to do with the fact that vampires are beautiful and more to do with their sensuality. Vampires represent the forbidden. The dangerous. The id. This isn’t groundbreaking; plenty of critics have written about this at length. Princess Weekes talks about this in her video essays “Nosferatu & The Gothic Appetite” (2025) and “Why We Fall for Monsters” (2024), and Lindsey Ellis got into it back in 2016 with “My Monster Boyfriend.” Monsters resonate with something within us, especially women, especially queers. We don’t just fall for them. We recognize ourselves in them.

So when AMC’s Interview with the Vampire came out—and yes, I adore it, and yes, Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Bailey Bass, and Delainey Hayles can do no wrong—I was all in. Except for one thing.