7/4/2023 0 Comments Novel red dragon![]() ![]() Now, just in time for Pride, all three seasons of Fuller’s Hannibal have arrived on Netflix in the U.S. ![]() Three decades later, Bryan Fuller, an openly gay creator, showed up to give me the canonically queer adaptation I didn’t know I needed in the form of Hannibal, a series that stays true to its horror roots while delivering on a promise in its character development that LGBTQ+ fans seldom get to see. ![]() Luckily, I wasn’t the only one who thought so. Throughout the novel, Lecter is nothing if not the ex from hell, lashing out when Graham won’t give him his phone number, trying to remove his new partner from the picture, and generally refusing to let the other man move on. Reading the novel for the first time as a teenager not yet fully in touch with her own queerness, I remember thinking, “That’s pretty gay.” And it was. Harris juxtaposes the mundane realities of Lecter’s incarcerated life (the smell of Clorox in the drains orderlies serving chili) with the scents he associates with Graham. Hannibal Lecter lies on his bed with the cell lights down, ruminating on odors. ![]() There’s a moment in Thomas Harris’ 1981 novel Red Dragon when, shortly after having his first encounter with Will Graham since the man put him away, Dr. ![]()
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