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Contents:

• KEV WILLIAMSON: ‘THE SCREAM MOVI ARE D GAY SURVIVAL’
• HOW ‘FEAR STREET’ BEME QUEER STREET: THE SUPER GAY MOVIE EVOLUTN OF R.L. STE’S FAMED SERI
• ROBERT ENGLUND AND THE GAY SI OF FREDDY KEGER
• ‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS
• IS W CRAVEN GAY?
• [HORROR QUEERS] GAYG UP THE BIGGT HORROR FRANCHISE OF THE 90S WH ‘SCREAM’!

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

“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.

HOW ‘FEAR STREET’ BEME QUEER STREET: THE SUPER GAY MOVIE EVOLUTN OF R.L. STE’S FAMED SERI

“It’s a gay universe, I gus. 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. 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.

ROBERT ENGLUND AND THE GAY SI OF FREDDY KEGER

They were not wrong: “(Leigh and Ey) were like, ‘100 percent, Alice and Cdy are gay.

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

Robert Englund says he spected A Nightmare on Elm Street was sted to have a large gay fan followg when he saw several drag queens drsed as his star Heather Langenkamp's character, Nancy Thompson, at a stume party 1985.

IS W CRAVEN GAY?

"Lookg back more than 30 years after the first film the anchise slashed s way to pop culture history, Englund has a theory why the first heroe of Elm Street and the actrs who played her fiercely ronated wh gay horror fans. "There's always been a great affectn the gay muny, and I share this om my pot of view as a heterosexual, for the survivor and the diva, " he says.

"That strong woman thg that gay men the '40s and '50s intified wh actrs like Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, there was a transference gog on the early '80s bee there was no Bette Davis then.

I thk young teen boys and girls the late '70s and early '80s who were gay ma their transference wh characters like the survivor girl, which is a great gredient of the horror movie, startg wh Jamie Lee Curtis and g to full blossom wh Heather's character Nancy.

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

"So that area where gay culture and Hollywood crossover, Heather hered some of those fans and I thk that's why Nancy beme that supplemental diva for the gay muny.

"While Nancy hooked a new generatn of gay horror fans the origal Elm Street adventure, was the film's first sequel that reeled them for more. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge took a bold turn by replacg the tradnal "fal girl" wh male protagonist Jse Walsh, played by gay actor Mark Patton. The movie also ntaed gay subtext purposefully woven to the script by screenwrer David Chask, which was further highlighted by stylistic choic ma durg filmg.