Jse Walsh broke barriers (and reers) as one of horror's first almost-openly gay protagonists.
Contents:
- THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
- NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 2: FREDDY’S…GAY?!
- WALSH: NO, GOD DO NOT MAKE PEOPLE GAY
- JOHN WALSH REBUTS GAY/PEDOPHILE MEME
THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
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" Director Jack Sholr and wrer David Chask both nied the film's subtext, and Mark Patton (who was the closet at the time), worried that the suatns of the film beg overtly gay would lead to him beg typest, as he wasn't the typil Hollywood leadg male. Some of the clu a scene where Jse enunters his ach at a gay bar, a scene where said ach is whipped to ath by towels while naked the showers, a scene wh Jse and his bt iend Grady (Rler) where Jse approach him bed, and a scene where Jse attempts to make out wh his girliend at a party before fleeg panic. But the role is almost exclively given to female Walsh, the male “scream queen” and sole survivor of the send stallment of the Nightmare on Elm Street anchise broke that Walsh was as gay as a character uld be whout actually beg openly gay, which helped him bee an in the LGBT+ muny.
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NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 2: FREDDY’S…GAY?!
'Freddy's Revenge' is one of the only mastream horror films to foc on the existential fears of a gay protagonist. * jesse walsh gay *
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WALSH: NO, GOD DO NOT MAKE PEOPLE GAY
After seeg A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, some felt that the stggle Jse Walsh go through as he fights to prevent Freddy Keger (Robert Englund) om posssg him is a lot like the stggle of gay people tryg to keep their homosexualy hidn. The rult is a movie that’s both a study of a cultural moment and an timate rerd of one man’s path through fame and out the other si… then back aga, on his own terms, to a genre that still stggl wh s homophobia. Documents the creatn, receptn, fallout, and rurrectn of Nightmare 2… but simultaneoly documents the experience of beg a gay man Hollywood the 80s, as iends and lovers and lleagu died paful aths while the world sat judgement.
JOHN WALSH REBUTS GAY/PEDOPHILE MEME
Screenwrer David Chask spent years refg to acknowledge any tentnal subtext his script — a posn he has sce reversed — and director Jack Sholr claimed not to have noticed the movie’s gayns durg filmg.