gay horror fans... go watch my best friend is a vampire (1987) starring robert sean leonard rn. its so fun and campy and gay coded... please im begging i need more content of it here
Paramount acquired the film rights to Anne Rice’s debut novel Interview with the Vampire in 1976. Leonard Nimoy was lobbying to be cast as the story’s charismatic antagonist, Lestat, by the following year. He told the New York Times that he “could create interest” in the film and that “I want that role. I am right for that vampire.” Nimoy went on to star in a Paramount production shortly afterwards when he brought his iconic character Spock back to the screen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). An Interview with the Vampire adaptation, meanwhile, wouldn’t arrive in theatres until 1994. (source)
idk what im even trying to say here, but s1e2 "man trap" where the salt vampire is pretending to be bones and is seated next to dr. crater in the ready room and kirk is drilling crater like "where is the creature!! can you see it?!?" and impostor!bones is visibly sweating bullets.
then crater says "the creature needs love. i love my beautiful wife & I see her singing and dancing in my dreams :--) " and deforest kelley has to play the role of a man who is actually a shapeshifting vampire, looking subtlety moved and flattered by crater not willing to out it to everyone, but also trying to NOT seem as though he's touched because he's secretly an impostor pretending to be dr. mccoy? the intrigue. the suspense. the (Gay?) Drama.