Just in time for Halloween, singer Doug Locke has released his new music video, “In or Our,” in which he plays a sexy, blood-sucking, bisexual vampire.
“I’ve had a thing for vampires since I was young,” Locke tells OUT. “I grew up on Buffy, Blade, Anne Rice, and True Blood. Vampires exude an effortless sensuality that I felt was a perfect reflection of the vibe of the song.”
Locke says the video uses vampirism as a metaphor for the sexual fluidity.
“I wanted to celebrate the beauty of embracing love unapologetically,” he says. “The music video is a tribute one of my favorite films, the ’80s vampire cult classic The Lost Boys.”
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He continues: “Imagine if The Lost Boys crashed a house party picking off victims one by one with the levity of Britney Spears’ Toxic. I was inspired by the charisma of Anne Rice’s character Lestat, the Vampire, and by the look and feel of Fiona Apple’s Criminal music video.”
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I believe in sexual and gender fluidity. I have experienced both to some capacity. I believe in getting it on with whoever you feel. I’m aware that orientation and sense of gender can be very complicated stuff. And I do believe that perhaps most people are not both 100% cis gender and 100% inherently, conventionally heterosexual or homosexual their whole lives. I also believe in embracing where you are at in that moment in your life. If that’s the person that most satisfies you and gives you contentment and who you can have a healthy, fulfilling relationship with then damn social constructs or identity. Embrace it and don’t be afraid of it.
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However, a lot of what I’ve been hearing when it comes to the “fluid movement” is very similar to the “all lives matter” vs “black lives matter” debate. People aren’t regularly attacking opposite cis gender couples. There’s no general social pressure to keep those relationships under-wraps/low-key. There’s no religious persecution or religious guilt or lack of job security or potential lack of job opportunities. People are not looking to undermine those relationships or see them as less substantial and less legitimate alternatives. These couples are not getting harassed on the streets for showing affection to each other in public. People aren’t looking to take rights away from them.
It just seems that a lot of (though not all) non gay identifying “queers” don’t like acknowledging that gay relationships (and even relationships with trans people) offer their own set of things that hetero romances and commitment simply does not. There’s this persistent desperation to connect opposite cis relationships to the “queer struggle”. And it just doesn’t align despite whatever your sense of gender is or whoever you may be having sex with outside of your core relationship and commitment.
Also, I simply didn’t care for the song or video.