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If there is one thing I really appreciate about Interview With the Vampire, it is that Louis’ identity as a Black Gay man is always front and center on his mind. It impacts how he navigates in life, how he sees things and how he inevitably exists.
I just saw the sneak peek clip from ep 3 where he’s going to talk to Armand and he made a great point about why he isn’t in the shadows, hiding with the other vampires. In New Orleans, he had to.
Despite at the time black people being the majority in New Orleans and Louis being on the lighter end of the spectrum (and yes, that has a lot to do with how Black people were treated and perceived in society back then, especially in the south) he still faced racism. Racism was still something that he couldn’t ever shake and being a vampire never fixed that.
Claudia herself, also experienced it and was far more vocal about it than Louis in their relationship to Lestat who was quite literally their slave master at a point. And to be frank, Louis’ relationship with Lester did cloud that very fact of reality. That he is a Black man, held against his will by Louis. And his love for Louis allowed him to put up a form of facade or rather, protection to forget that.
But anyway, when the two are in France, I love how Louis mentioned that he himself likes to be out and about. He loves to be in cafes, he loves to mingle with people, he loves to be able to exist without southern antilock racism, and homophobia staining his life. And to him, that is more freeing than the immortality and strength granted by being a vampire. He is happy that way, which is what others do not understand. He can be proud to be Black, queer and just exist without having to worry about racism. Because again being a vampire doesn't suddenly make antiblackness vanish.
Claudia however, is different. Because she is a Black woman, and BM and BW live completely different lives when it comes to oppression and misogyny. And Claudia wanting to mingle with the other vampires and stay hidden is a lot more understandable, so this isn’t to compare or contrast them or say that Louis understands racism or oppression whereas Claudia doesn’t.
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