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
• FROM THE ARCHIVFUTURE PRENT: CHANGE HAPPENS WHEN WE ARE EMBODIEDFAKG IT EPISO 106 REP: I PROMISE THIS THREOME WON’T BE WEIRD AT ALLHOLIGAY GIFT GUI: LAST-MUTE ANAL GIFTSLATT COMMENTS
• THE DIRECTOR, OPENLY GAY WRER, AND NON-BARY STAR ON THE POPULAR FEAR STREET SERI
• UNBURY YOUR GAYS: QUEER FAL GIRLS NETFLIX’S FEAR STREET TRILOGY

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. Berman, eventually persuad by the power of teen gay love, relents and tells Deena and Josh the story of the worst day of her life. For s, fans and punds have bated the homoerotic subtext of 1985’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, and whether one of s key characters was gay.

So was important to me, was important to my wrg partner, who grew up as gay the '90s. The director, openly gay wrer, and non-bary star on the popular book seri’ queer evolutn. They were not wrong: “(Leigh and Ey) were like, ‘One-hundred percent, Alice and Cdy are gay.

FROM THE ARCHIVFUTURE PRENT: CHANGE HAPPENS WHEN WE ARE EMBODIEDFAKG IT EPISO 106 REP: I PROMISE THIS THREOME WON’T BE WEIRD AT ALLHOLIGAY GIFT GUI: LAST-MUTE ANAL GIFTSLATT COMMENTS

” 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.

The director, openly gay wrer, and non-bary star on the popular Fear Street seri. 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. “Wh s tragic romantic endg, ‘Bly Manor’ tras the same tired and harmful ‘kill your gays’ trope that has plagued Hollywood for years, ” argued Ju Dry for IndieWire.

However, “Bury Your Gays” has s own TV Trop page for a reason; there are enough exampl of queer characters who are “nomally able to be viewed as more expendable than their heterosexual unterparts”’ to monstrate a pattern, one which n often be tratg to wns – pecially for queer viewers (). In 2019, It: Chapter Two – another text pictg the horrors of small town Ameri, albe wh a very different source than Fear Street – was heavily cricised for s openg scene, which a young gay man falls victim to a homophobic hate crime.

THE DIRECTOR, OPENLY GAY WRER, AND NON-BARY STAR ON THE POPULAR FEAR STREET SERI

One uld argue that the film’s eratn of this murr was a jtifiable pictn of homophobic vlence, given that Kg origally wrote himself. However, while Kg appears to have been eply affected by Howard’s murr and this stance of homophobic vlence the novel to signal the powerful and disturbg hatred which is putrefyg the town of Derry om the si out, rpons to the versn of the scene the 2019 film were notably more nflicted.

UNBURY YOUR GAYS: QUEER FAL GIRLS NETFLIX’S FEAR STREET TRILOGY

The Advote published the headle: “IT‘s Gay Bashg Scene Serv No Purpose Except as Porn for Homophob” while Slate ran wh: “It: Chapter Two’s Gay-Bashg Scene Explos a Real-Life Killg for a Cheap Shock. ” Not all reviews were negative, but most stggled to balance this vlent scene wh the film’s later revelatn that ma character Richie Tozier is gay and love wh his childhood iend Eddie Kaspbrak. “It: Chapter Two’s Gay-Bashg Scene Explos a Real-Life Killg for a Cheap Shock.

“IT‘s Gay Bashg Scene Serv No Purpose Except as Porn for Homophob.