Phil Graziai, the openly gay screenwrer behd Netflix’s new queer-clive film trilogy based on spook master R.L. Ste’s classic “Fear Street”
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
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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.
THIS SPOOKY WEEKEND, DIVE TO RL STE’S GAY ANSWER TO ‘LORD OF THE RGS’
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.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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.