Phil Graziai on brgg gayns to horror the 'Fear Street' trilogy - Queerty

Contents:

• HOW ‘FEAR STREET’ BEME QUEER STREET: THE SUPER GAY MOVIE EVOLUTN OF R.L. STE’S FAMED SERI
• PHIL GRAZIAI ON BRGG GAYNS TO HORROR THE ‘FEAR STREET’ TRILOGY
• THIS SPOOKY WEEKEND, DIVE TO RL STE’S GAY ANSWER TO ‘LORD OF THE RGS’
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

HOW ‘FEAR STREET’ BEME QUEER STREET: THE SUPER GAY MOVIE EVOLUTN OF R.L. STE’S FAMED SERI

The director, openly gay wrer, and non-bary star on the popular book seri' queer evolutn. Phil Graziai, the openly gay screenwrer behd Netflix’s new queer-clive film trilogy based on spook master R.

And he fely remembers them not beg very gay.

That hasn’t stopped fans, as Graziai not, om talogg “all the homoerotic unrton of each book” for years.

PHIL GRAZIAI ON BRGG GAYNS TO HORROR THE ‘FEAR STREET’ TRILOGY

That “Fear Street” go beyond jt gay vib was one of the most excg parts of starrg the summer mp-set “Part Two: 1978” for non-bary actor Ryan Simpks, who they/them pronouns. Even though the script didn’t intify Simpks’ Alice character as gay, they believed om the onset that she was. They were not wrong: “(Leigh and Ey) were like, ‘100 percent, Alice and Cdy are gay.

One tegory they go through is homoerotic subtext.

THIS SPOOKY WEEKEND, DIVE TO RL STE’S GAY ANSWER TO ‘LORD OF THE RGS’

Janiak also poted to her longtime wrer partner, Phil Graziai, who is gay, as beg particularly apt at makg Deena and Sam’s love story feel both specific and universal. In an even more lightful surprise–pecially to –the sprawlg story centers on gay love bond through the centuri.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Thgs may have changed a lot sce 1994, but there were still plenty of gay teens out of the closet back then.