Jasm Savoy Brown speaks wh GAY TIMES about the highly-anticipated sixth Scream film and the 'disturbg' send season of Yellowjackets.
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- IN THE 'SCREAM 5' POSTER, THE FRANCHISE'S GAY SUBTEXT BE TEXT
- A GAYER ‘SCREAM’: HOW JASM SAVOY BROWN IS ON A MISSN TO MAKE HER ‘SCREAM VI’ CHARACTER AS QUEER AS POSSIBLE
IN THE 'SCREAM 5' POSTER, THE FRANCHISE'S GAY SUBTEXT BE TEXT
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In a December terview for The Inpennt, screenwrer Kev Williamson talked about how his childhood experience affected his work on the Scream anchise: "As a gay kid, I related to the fal girl and to her stggle bee 's what one has to do to survive as a young gay kid, too. ""Subnscly, I thk the Scream movi are d gay survival, " he add, a statement that many queer Scream fans found vditg.
A GAYER ‘SCREAM’: HOW JASM SAVOY BROWN IS ON A MISSN TO MAKE HER ‘SCREAM VI’ CHARACTER AS QUEER AS POSSIBLE
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As great as the origal trilogy was, was still wrten at a time where cludg major queer characters uld have led to heavy phback om studs and the time Scream 4 me out, screenwrers had more leeway this regard, but the movie was still wrten at a time Ameri where even the Democratic Print was not yet openly supportive of issu like gay marriage. Scream 4 was a movie wh a nng gag of how one of the bt ways to survive a horror movie was to be gay, but the clost thg the movie has to a gay character gets stabbed multiple tim and is never mentned aga (until a brief reference Scream, that is).
Origal Scream screenwrer and creator Kev Williamson is openly gay and has spoken about the queer dg of the films the past. In a 2022 terview, he even said that Stu and Billy are based on 1920s gay mass murrg uple Nathan Frnthal Leopold Jr and Richard Albert Loeb.
“It’s very sort of homoerotic, ” Williamson told PriSource. Scream 6 not only giv a queer ma character the form of Mdy, but also diverg om the famo ‘Bury Your Gays’ trope cema.