~~ vampire sex?

So I accidentally found this whole website on "Queer Vampires" in the media (part of a "queer horror" extravaganza). At first I just sort of snorted when the site said that vampires were particularly "queer", or of particular interest to homosexuals... but then it just made me sad, especially realizing that queerness-as-otherness is being accentuated by the people themselves. It's like (they? we? which do I use?) -want- to be "different" in some kind of permanent, basic way.

Because, well, vampires are permanently different, aren't they. It's a sad sort of metaphor to use for queerness. It disturbs me, anyway. I mean, yes, they're free to lead their alternative lifestyle and so on, but they lose a lot of their humanity along the way. Why is that so easy to forget? That if you emphasize your differences (diversity, blah-blah-blahbity-blah) you could easily lose sight of your essential unity?

This even applies to the most shallow PC-type things like universities obsessing with "diversity" as their supposed driving ideal. What sort of driving ideal is that? I mean, the boundaries between people-- that's a sad reality, not a bright future, is it?

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EDIT - omg, I so want one of these, it's not even funny :D :D :D Ok, yes, yes it is.