![]() ![]() Calm minds with community-saving intent could yet save this world from the destruction beset by the war in his story. ![]() He even spoke about it with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, when he discussed how the clear-headed leadership absent in most zombie lore also seemed missing from the world as AIDS became a pandemic. The zombies of World War Z deserve special mention, just because Max Brooks modeled the outbreak in his story specifically after the spread of HIV. I have to give Rose mad props for creeping me out the way she did in this book. Rose is amazing, the multiple character story lines and the journey she takes into the mind of Gage and his justification for what he does and who he becomes is seriously disturbing. Safe sex sounds boring? It’s still a better love story than Twilight. Monster in the Closet is a crazy intense book. And yes, this does serve as evidence Twilight can really screw up young people’s idea of relationships. In recognition of all those who live outside the boundaries of social norms, here are 16 characters from movies, myths, television, plays, and novels who represent the queer experience. If vampirism can be seen as the ultimate allegory for HIV, then Edward and Bella may be the Twilight series’ respective gift-giver and bug-chaser. By series end, Bella has begged Edward to turn her into a vamp, even though fiction’s twinkliest vampire describes himself as a predatory monster.
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