‘Scream’ Screenwrer Kev Williamson Confirms Billy and Stu’s Queer-Cod Relatnship Was Based on Real Gay Killers - Pri Source

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• ‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS
• NEVE CAMPBELL RPONDS TO SCREAM THEORI THAT BILLY AND STU ARE GAY
• [HORROR QUEERS] GAYG UP THE BIGGT HORROR FRANCHISE OF THE 90S WH ‘SCREAM’!
• NEVE CAMPBELL ADDRS GAY TENSN BETWEEN BILLY AND STU SCREAM
• IN THE SCREAM 5POSTER, THE FRANCHISE'S ‘GAY SURVIVAL’ SUBTEXT BE TEXT
• SCREAM IN NEVE CAMPBELL WEIGHS ON THEORY ORIGAL FILM HAD A SECRET GAY ROMANCE
• IN THE SCREAM 5POSTER, THE FRANCHISE'S ‘GAY SURVIVAL’ SUBTEXT BE TEXT

‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS

If you’re still wonrg about those homoerotic unrton 25 years after Billy Loomis and Stu Macher terrorized Woodsboro W Craven’s “Scream, ” you’ve been on the right track all along.

Ahead of the new “Scream, ” out Friday, openly gay screenwrer of the first “Scream, ” Kev Williamson, has nfirmed that Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu (Matthew Lillard), who are thought to be queer by many LGBTQ+ fan theorists, were based on famo mass murrers Nathan Frnthal Leopold Jr.

And Richard Albert Loeb, both of whom reportedly admted they were gay and a relatnship. ” Both are noted for their homoeroticism. “It’s very sort of homoerotic, the sense that there were the two guys that killed this other person jt to see if they uld get away wh , ” Williamson said, drawg parallels between the Leopold and Loeb se and Billy and Stu.

NEVE CAMPBELL RPONDS TO SCREAM THEORI THAT BILLY AND STU ARE GAY

In one scene, Ray (Shawn Wayans), based on Stu, and Bobby (Jon Abrahams), based on Billy, joke about beg gay, divulgg to a Sidney-like character lled Cdy (Anna Faris) that, “That’s right, Cdy, I’m gay.

[HORROR QUEERS] GAYG UP THE BIGGT HORROR FRANCHISE OF THE 90S WH ‘SCREAM’!

Williamson adms that when he wrote the origal “Scream, ” which was released 1996, he was “very hant to prent the gay si of me my work, ” rultg the queerns of characters Billy and Stu beg “a ltle d and maybe accintal.

Maybe I wouldn’t be that shy ltle gay wrer who felt like he uldn’t get away wh . Recently, an terview wh The Inpennt, Williamson nfsed that the “Scream” movi are “d gay survival, ” wh Sidney beg, sentially, a maniftatn of his stggl as a gay person. “And so I thk that’s one of the reasons Fal Girls are so important to as a gay dience.

NEVE CAMPBELL ADDRS GAY TENSN BETWEEN BILLY AND STU SCREAM

” Before he wrote Sidney, he related to Jamie Lee Curtis’ Lrie Stro “Halloween” bee, beg gay, “he unrstands the “plight of the Fal Girl. “I thk gay kids everywhere unrstand that survival element that we have to sort of create ourselv.

And when we’re watchg that Fal Girl have to prove herself and rise to the challenge and save her life, I thk that’s somethg gay kids anywhere n relate to. Touched by how many LGBTQ+ people have felt spired by Sidney, Campbell said her heroic character “giv people that nfince that they n overe” and that she unrstands why “ mak sense certaly for the queer muny and gay men.

Of urse Mdy is a rult of a shift LGBTQ+ reprentatn — now, to queer- characters would be an embarrassg step backwards — but Williamson also attribut the character to a shift his own growth as a gay man. That growth, he said, led him to wre the character of Jack McPhee, an openly gay teen who appeared as a “Dawson’s Creek” seri regular startg 1998.

IN THE SCREAM 5POSTER, THE FRANCHISE'S ‘GAY SURVIVAL’ SUBTEXT BE TEXT

Neve Campbell has revealed whether or not she agre wh theori that Billy and Stu were gay the origal Scream sce Scream first me out 1996, there have been multiple fan theori that Billy and Stu had romantic feelgs for each other. Randy even lls Billy a "homo reprsed momma's boy" Scream 2. Neve Campbell rponds to Scream theori that Billy and Stu are gay.

Jt last month (Dec 6), Kev Williamson, who wrote the origal Scream script, told the pennt that the first film is queer-d: "As a gay kid, I related to the fal girl and to her stggle, bee ’s what one has to do to survive as a young gay kid, too. Subnscly, I thk the Scream movi are d gay survival. Queer Aspect: Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu (Matthew Lillard) are secret gay lovers.

SCREAM IN NEVE CAMPBELL WEIGHS ON THEORY ORIGAL FILM HAD A SECRET GAY ROMANCE

Not only is wrten by genre horror vet – and notable “out” gay man – Kev Williamson, featur one of the most vert queer bro-manc of the 90s the form of killers Billy and Stu. After Joshua Cross (of Toronto’s Queer Fear fame) schled , I hopped onle to do some rearch and ed this observatn has been ma several tim, most notably the third chapter of Michael DeAngelis’ Readg the bromance: Homosocial relatnships film and televisn. There’s a heavy dose of homoeroticism the way that the pair teract throughout the film, and most particularly the climax, when Stu hangs off Billy and the pair stab each other wh their phallic weapons (kniv = penis for those the back).

But this also overlooks key intifiers about Billy: his unhealthy obssive relatnship wh his mother’s love (Oedipal to say the least and very much a gay trope).

IN THE SCREAM 5POSTER, THE FRANCHISE'S ‘GAY SURVIVAL’ SUBTEXT BE TEXT

Throw his smetic stume stylg ak to queer in Jam Dean Rebel Whout A Cse and Billy’s Norman Bat reference when he outs himself as the killer to Sidney (Psycho tends to skew queer due to Norman’s relatnship to his mother and bee he is played by closeted – at the time – queer actor Anthony Perks) and you’ve got a lany of gay associatns.

Even if you don’t read that way (and to be clear: ’s totally fe if you don’t), you n’t ny that there is some fe homoeroticism peppered throughout their scen together.

Also, Stu playg wh Randy (Jamie Kennedy)’s earlobe the vio store is a ltle, well, gay. This was veloped after years of beg picked on and beg ma fun of for beg effemate, even before I knew I was gay.