Nearly two s later, 'Dawson's Creek' actor reflects on historic gay kiss

Contents:

• ‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS
• KEV WILLIAMSON: ‘THE SCREAM MOVI ARE D GAY SURVIVAL’
• SCREAM CREATOR KEV WILLIAMSON SAYS SLASHER SERI ‘D GAY SURVIVAL’
• WATCH: GAY ‘SCREAM’ WRER KEV WILLIAMSON LIVERS A SHOCKG HOME VASN HORROR
• [CORRECTED] KEV D WILLIAMSON IS GAY? A’T THAT A VICTORY FOR CLASSIL LIBERALISM?
• NEARLY TWO S LATER, 'DAWSON'S CREEK' ACTOR REFLECTS ON HISTORIC GAY KISS
• KEV WILLIAMSON SAYS THE SCREAM MOVI WERE SPIRED BY “GAY SURVIVAL”
• ‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON NFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S D QUEER RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS

‘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.

KEV WILLIAMSON: ‘THE SCREAM MOVI ARE D GAY SURVIVAL’

” 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. 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.

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.

SCREAM CREATOR KEV WILLIAMSON SAYS SLASHER SERI ‘D GAY SURVIVAL’

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.

” 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.

WATCH: GAY ‘SCREAM’ WRER KEV WILLIAMSON LIVERS A SHOCKG HOME VASN HORROR

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.

[CORRECTED] KEV D WILLIAMSON IS GAY? A’T THAT A VICTORY FOR CLASSIL LIBERALISM?

“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 adds, however, that their nsistent stg of women beloved by gay men – such as Lrie Metlf, Parker Posey, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Carrie Fisher – was more of a cince than some big queer nspiracy.

“It’s a gay universe, I gus. Scream’s creator has said the slasher film anchise is d wh ‘gay trma’.

Scream’s Sidney Prtt fac the same battle for survival as many young, gay kids, says the anchise’s screenwrer Kev Williamson. But as a closeted gay kid growg up North Carola and Texas, fal girls were a figure he had long related to. “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, ” he said.

NEARLY TWO S LATER, 'DAWSON'S CREEK' ACTOR REFLECTS ON HISTORIC GAY KISS

Even the stg of Scream is sufficiently, well, gay. Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Sarah Michelle Gellar was Scream 2, while fellow gay ins Parker Posey, Carrie Fisher and Lrie Metlf also appeared. I also learned that, like me, Kev was gay.

KEV WILLIAMSON SAYS THE SCREAM MOVI WERE SPIRED BY “GAY SURVIVAL”

As such, he beme my first gay hero. Knowg that a gay man om a small town had bee a mega-succs Hollywood was tly spirg. The first gay magaze I ever bought, as a still-closeted teenager, was an Advote wh Kev on the ver, flanked by pal Katie Holm promotn of his directorial but Teachg Mrs.

‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON NFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S D QUEER RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS

Kev’s work wasn’t explicly gay, really— wh the notable exceptn of Dawson’s Creek, which spired me wh s groundbreakg g out saga featurg Jack (Kerr Smh)—gay them and characters weren’t really at the foreont of his productns.

Dawson’s g out story is prompted by a cel stctor forcg Jack to read a homoerotic poem out loud class (an experience reportedly based on a staff wrer’s life). Probably his hight profile failure, the notorly troubled werewolf movie Cursed, on which he reteamed wh Scream director W Craven, still manag to be a zippy and entertag romp through a very early 2000s Hollywood — and featur a heartfelt gay storyle which Jse Eisenberg’s high school nemis Milo Ventimiglia turns out to have a csh on him.