The director, openly gay wrer, and non-bary star on the popular book seri' queer evolutn
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
- FEAR STREET PART 1 TACKL THE BURY YOUR GAYS TROPE
- 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
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” * gay characters in fear street *
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
In Fear Street Part 1: 1994, the famo "bury your gays" trope is put to rt several clever and meangful ways. * gay characters in fear street *
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.
” 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.
Speakg to Gay Tim, Maira said she knew om the start that the Fear Street trilogy would be “somethg really special”. 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.
FEAR STREET PART 1 TACKL THE BURY YOUR GAYS TROPE
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay characters in fear street *
So was important to me, was important to my wrg partner, who grew up as gay the '90s. They were not wrong: “(Leigh and Ey) were like, ‘One-hundred percent, Alice and Cdy are gay. Speakg wh GAY TIMES, Kiana says she was aware om the start that the Fear Street trilogy would be “groundbreakg” for the genre and queer visibily.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
The fact that ’s centred around a queer love story, the fact the protagonists, some of them, are people of lour…” she tells GAY TIMES. Janiak’s wrg partner Phil Graziai is gay, and their wrers’ room on “Fear Street” was acutely aware of the history of how queer characters are generally portrayed horror films.
One tegory they go through is homoerotic subtext.
In Fear Street Part 1: 1994, the famo "bury your gays" trope is put to rt several clever and meangful ways.