[Horror Queers] Gayg Up the Biggt Horror Franchise of the 90s wh 'Scream'! - Bloody Disgtg

Contents:

• THE GAY MAN AND THE BUTCHER’S BOY: SCREAMS THE NIGHT
• [HORROR QUEERS] GAYG UP THE BIGGT HORROR FRANCHISE OF THE 90S WH ‘SCREAM’!
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

THE GAY MAN AND THE BUTCHER’S BOY: SCREAMS THE NIGHT

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You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive,” he said addrsg the dience. About a year later, “Love, Simon” ma history as Hollywood’s first major stud film to feature a gay teen protagonist and spawned a wonrful spoff show, “Love, Victor. Queer Aspect: Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu (Matthew Lillard) are secret gay lovers.

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.

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

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).

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

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.