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hi it's me trixie mattel welcome back to my channel if you're new here i'm a world famous
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and one of my personal favorites that we're going to be going through today true blood if you have
not seen true blood i'm actually a little jealous of you because you're gonna get to watch it for
the first time so when you sign up for hbo max and you embark on your hbmx journey i suggest you
start with true blood i'll explain it okay true blood is a show it happens in a fictional town
in rural louisiana they talk about sharif port a lot so i always think of chichi to vayne when they
talk about that but basically vampires come out of the closet as like a real race of people in a way
and so it's the entire country and the world trying to grasp and understand this entirely new
open being this show is both actively purposely gay in some moments and in so many other fun ways
accidentally so gay by the way this show is very uh adult whatever that means to you i'm not gonna
say who's an adult but like watch at your own adult iris big spoilers we're gonna be talking
about every season of true blood every character you're gonna hear from someone who's seen this
show at least probably five times so let's just get into it let's look at some clips but before
we start i thought it would be fun if i could make an exciting like vampire themed cocktail
so i'm gonna make a vampire's kiss martini the first thing i'm gonna need is some ice
i'm gonna look up the recipe three-fourths of an ounce of raspberry liqueur okay well we're
gonna go with pomegranate liqueur because this is a little more red three-fourths of an ounce
i don't know that could be it i really don't know three fourths of an ounce
one and a half ounces of vodka by the way i know this is a vodka and it's almost gone i
don't want to hear anything from anyone okay not on this channel this is one and a half ounces
so it's about twice as much okay would that seem like a lot i don't know i own bars i don't tend
bars but if you guys would like to see a video of me making cocktails there's actually a video
on this channel so watch it here and finally we have to do one and a half ounces of sparkling wine
my sister just ran out of the room are you scared did you fear like the pop of champagne
this is hbo max for giving us incredible queer content all year thank you hbo max
yeah it was great one and a half ounces of sparkling wine gorge gorge gorge you're
supposed to garnish the rim with red sugar it's kind of vampirey right do you guys think that's
kind of vampirey i think it is let's see what it looks like let's see what the audience thinks oh
oh i kind of live look at the bloody glass that's fun cheers happy pride
it's kind of delicious who knew okay it is spicy okay so i pulled up some of my favorite clips
this one starts kind of strong so one of the best things about true blood is the performance given
by nelson ellis who actually was a judge on season seven of drag race so i actually got to
meet nelson he has passed away but his incredible spirit lives in this character lafayette you guys
have to imagine this is a small town in rural louisiana and this is an openly gay person of
color who works in a kitchen and he doesn't take from anybody i mean this his whole performance on
this season is fabulous dynamic he wears lashes makeup he's sexy i mean his body in this period
of his life while he's filming this is amazing there's a scene i love where some heterosexual
people come in and order a burger and they send it back lafayette goes what's wrong with the burger
and arlene doesn't want to say and lafayette goes what's wrong with the burger and arlene goes the
table said they didn't want to eat anything that had aids which like the hiv aids phobia is still
very real in this world and in this show somebody like lafayette does not take it sitting down
who ordered the hamburger with age if this was me and somebody said something this
homophobic to me it would probably make me cry lafayette is not that girl i ordered the
hamburger deluxe in this restaurant a hamburger deluxe come with french fries lettuce tomato mayo
and aids sophia's do anybody got a problem with that i don't recommend violence at work but i mean
this is a stylized show this is so fierce all you got to do is say the eggs here eat it yes
you guys be being a [ __ ] and being portrayed as like physically strong and it's like being able
to stand up for yourself [ __ ] his performance in true blood is worth watching true blood alone but
there's more one of my favorite things about true blood is how i mean it's the south
they have vampires coming out of the coffin and they have churches calling vampires basically
like fangers which i mean you have it's purposely sounds like basically this church is devoted to
being anti-vampire the same way many churches are anti-gay vampires in this world are hated
and feared and they're the minority and religious groups like this hate them this is the light of
day institute the casting here is very on purpose it's a group of all young blonde white people
banding together in the name of love to talk about how much they hate a group of people
and this is one of those moments where true blood is like damn [ __ ] we are really
skating the line between this being really a fantasy show but scenes like this i'm like
this is real and so it is with open arms that steve and i welcome all of you to the light of day
she is so good okay anna camp plays sarah newlin who is like the wife of this famous reverend
she could not play the most perfect beautiful glamorous homophobic vampire phobic i mean
it's we all know that woman human beings don't need vampires to exist to be extremely hateful
amanda she is so beautiful i know that she's playing someone we're supposed to hate but she
really is like so gorgeous in this show welcome look it it's a church where they hate vampires
and they're putting on rings that's a promise to hate vampires purity rings ryan quanton who plays
jason stackhouse is so beautiful yes sarah newland of course is the woman behind reverend newlin who
is probably my favorite one of my favorite characters in this whole series da fingers
die fingers you guys i'm not even religious and even this like faux religious outing is giving
me like the chills a man now worldwide hiv aids is not a gay disease it's not a men's or women's
disease it's a human world globe disease but in the scope of true blood they do a really beautiful
job of introducing it as a disease that humans are carriers of called hep v and vampires um die from
called hep v and in this amazing scene jessica's finding out that bill her father basically is he
positive and it's interesting watching the hiv aids phobia that exists in the world translate to
like a fictional fairy tale disease but i mean the acting and the way they play it is so beautiful
and compassionate that's something that truba does really well these actors are throwing these insane
fantasy situations but they play them like it is dead serious 100 actually a thousand percent real
and that's what makes the show so compelling these actors and actresses turn the party they commit
i'm heavy positive and it's very important to me that i get my affairs in order my statement my
will you guys have to imagine like how often on a show do we see a character disclosing
their status ever and in this show we have this community with this brand new outbreak having to
understand it and grieve one another and also fear for themselves they do such a beautiful job in
this show deborah ann wall who plays jessica you guys she's not queer in the show but i think any
queer woman would want to marry her and every gay man will yes queen her i mean she's so beautiful
and she gives the most sensitive stunning specific performances in this show it's so good again hat v
is like a fictional fantasy disease but disclosing your status to your loved ones i can only imagine
is such a nuanced thing and seeing it in a show like this where you see people really
having the impact hit them it's so good alright i believe in gay rights and so here i am just a
woman standing in front of you another woman and i need to talk to you about the character of pam
pam is probably the gayest thing about this show not necessarily because she spends the whole time
kissing women which she does kiss women pam is the sassiest most reading most bone-dry cruel cutting
fierce [ __ ] in this whole show the looks the hair the makeup the attitude so good i love this
we need to talk about your attitude by the way
pam saying i need to talk to you about your attitude this is tara by the way
your attitude must be pretty bad if pam thinks it's bad i gotta make this dude a margarita first
you don't want a margarita you want a flat half empty beer pam is so chic you
guys and if we're going to be fashion gays for a second something i love that true blood does
the older the vampire the more transplanted their sense of style is eric and pam through the whole
series they're older vampires they give you 80s 60s 70s every time you see them it seems like
they're pulling from a closet that's hundreds of years deep which realistically would be right
i don't know what it is about me that makes people think i want to hear their problems
maybe i smile too much maybe i wear too much pink but please remember i can rip
your throat out if i need to and also know that i am not a hooker see this is why i relate to pam
so glamorous so beautiful blonde thin and a complete [ __ ] that's my story being told
representation matters and you know what i love about pam pam isn't necessarily straight she's
not gay she's not bi she likes to suck a little blood suck a little something else whatever's
going on pam wants to be a part of it something i love that true blood does too is these characters
it's almost that being post living makes you sort of get with your sexuality i mean these characters
become vampires and sort of have entirely renewed sexual experiences like they become vampires and
sort of come into their sexuality as a vampire which i love which by the way to the viewers
at home you don't have to die to become one with your sexuality go be a [ __ ] today i
love the storyline of tara who's sookie's best friend tara basically dies and has to
be made into a vampire to survive otherwise she would be gone and tara hates vampires so we have
tara who learns to accept herself as a vampire and then maybe perhaps learns to accept that she
doesn't like just men she also likes other types of human beings all right so in this scene jason
stackhouse is rescuing a bunch of his vampire friends from this testing facility and tara's part
of it tara is one of those characters in the show we all love tara but once tara becomes a vampire
we like really love tara by the way leave it to pam to be in prison and still look extremely hot
okay interracial intergenerational lesbian love stories thank you they're not doing that on um
you know wipeout oh okay i knew it i love that by the way i love jessica if you ever are out in the
wild and you do something openly homosexual and one of your friends screams i knew it
um that's that's not helpful just say one of the other gayest things about true blood is
that oftentimes when people drink vampires blood let's say to get high or heal themselves when
they've been injured the character will have like recurring sexual dreams about the vampire
and in this scene everybody's like boy next door heartthrob from heaven jason stackhouse
is having a dream about warlow whose blood he drank and jason's entirely heterosexual so this
scene kind of comes out of nowhere shaving with a straight razor who does that smooth as a baby's
you body to do me now i mean i'm very gay and so i watch every type of program waiting
for something gay to happen and true blood doesn't make you wait this is gay
this is gay i'm sorry man i got you okay this is gay by the way this scene is
about straight razor shaving and i already have a boner taste it taste it oh my god
by the way if you're watching this and you aren't gay having a gay dream doesn't make you
gay so don't you don't have to sit up in bed and freak out like jason stackhouse but definitely a
lot of sex dreams that are always a little bit comedic in this show and they always punctuate
certain things and they're always really funny i mentioned earlier there are some parts of the
show that aren't technically gay but they have gay energy if that makes sense sort of like a
picnic basket you know this character named ginger who is sort of pam and eric's like handmaiden who
worships vampires is in love with eric she's not exactly the most strong-willed individual and she
slips into hysterics like that a blonde woman who slips into hysterics very quickly i have to relate
and she does a lot of screaming in this show and it's it's it's not gay but it's so funny you guys
i mean also the hair ginger's hair is always a journey
i wish i was like a pam or a jessica but i know i'm a ginger you know what i mean
oh i love this scene this okay this is like i said not exactly gay
it's not like you know girl on girl action but pam is trying to escape this coffin
and ginger's trying to keep her inside and i love this
isn't that every queer person's dream is to get some kind of like acting role where you
get to have really fabulous costumes and hairstyles and then some blonde girls just
screaming in the background goals by the way then the character's name is ginger and she's a blonde
that's already funny to me one of my other favorite gay characters in this show is
russell edgington he's a super old vampire played by dennis o'hare of course you know from american
horror story we work together on that show and he's so good in the show you guys he is
very gay very old and very sexual which i love we don't see old gay men on shows being like sexual
jesus i actually met him he was a boring hippie who stanked the truth so beers hi jason there's
reverend newlin as a vampire i told you hunk sandwiches [ __ ] hands off get off here hey hey
where's your sister yeah you ain't never gonna find her cause she's someplace you can't get in
and where might that be she's with the fears by the way two gay characters sandwiching a guy and
they're talking about fairies this show is even accidentally gay sometimes who knows how to show
you a good time you do young gay guys you just need an old powerful gay man to take care of you
that's all you need so these are just some of the reasons why you a human person should definitely
tune into true blood on hbo max as well as we're here veneno euphoria so many other types of
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year i tried to really think about this if there's anything really gay that i missed please
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