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.

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

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

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

One tegory they go through is homoerotic subtext. 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.

” But “Fear Street: 1994, ” which kicks off the Netflix slasher trilogy that clus succsors set 1978 and 1666, prents a gay Black teenager, Deena (Kiana Maira), as the heroe. At the start of “1994, ” Deena and Sam have broken up and the latter is passg as straight, wh a jock boyiend to boot, orr to satisfy her homophobic mother and society self. In an even more lightful surprise–pecially to –the sprawlg story centers on gay love bond through the centuri.

Thgs may have changed a lot sce 1994, but there were still plenty of gay teens out of the closet back then. The pair’s later fiance of Sam’s homophobic mother who shows up to look angry and uptight and disappears jt as quickly, feels more like tacked-on queer-reprentatn-by-way-of-Karens than anythg meangful.

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

Here’s an ia: Have gay people your slasher flick whout tryg so hard to let everyone know how brave is to have gay people your slasher flick. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

Prerve Your Gays: Dpe dyg briefly at the end of 1994 and almost beg a victim of the curse, Sam mak to the end of the seri alive and well. Pet the Dog: By all acunts, Peter was a classist, homophobic jerk — however, he did stay wh Sam all night at the hospal, seemgly of his own acrd.

And although he lacks the vobulary for , he shows a more tolerant view of homosexualy than the rt of the people of Unn.