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KEV WILLIAMSON: ‘THE SCREAM MOVI ARE D GAY SURVIVAL’
In a December terview for The Inpennt, screenwrer Kev Williamson talked about how his childhood experience affected his work on the Scream anchise: "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, " he add, a statement that many queer Scream fans found vditg. The first three movi the anchise may not have had any explicly LGBTQ+ characters, but much like the Matrix films om around that era, the queerns was the Sidney and Gale nstantly bucked genr norms their attempts to get through all, and Billy and Stu were loosely spired by real-life murrers a gay relatnship.
It helped that so many of the female actrs the seri – Courteney Cox, Lrie Metlf, Parker Posey, Sarah Michelle Gellar – were and are beloved by the gay muny. Mor characters (such as one of Sidney's bodyguards the send movie) are mentned to be gay, but there's rarely anythg more to than that. As great as the origal trilogy was, was still wrten at a time where cludg major queer characters uld have led to heavy phback om studs and the time Scream 4 me out, screenwrers had more leeway this regard, but the movie was still wrten at a time Ameri where even the Democratic Print was not yet openly supportive of issu like gay marriage.
Scream 4 was a movie wh a nng gag of how one of the bt ways to survive a horror movie was to be gay, but the clost thg the movie has to a gay character gets stabbed multiple tim and is never mentned aga (until a brief reference Scream, that is).