Robert Englund Says We're Ready For A Gay 'Nightmare On Elm Street 2' | LAist

Contents:

• ROBERT ENGLUND AND THE GAY SI OF FREDDY KEGER
• 'A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2' AT 35: ROBERT ENGLUND ADDRS HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXT OF 'THE GAYT HORROR MOVIE EVER MA'
• GAY FREDDY KEGER ACTOR WANTS A QUEER NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET REMAKE
• ROBERT ENGLUND SAYS WE'RE READY FOR A GAY 'NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2'
• “ELM STREET” DOCUMENTARY REVEALS FREDDY KEGER’S GAY SECRET 
• FREDDY KGER IS GAY
• IS EDDY KEGER GAY

ROBERT ENGLUND AND THE GAY SI OF FREDDY KEGER

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.

'A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2' AT 35: ROBERT ENGLUND ADDRS HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXT OF 'THE GAYT HORROR MOVIE EVER MA'

"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.

GAY FREDDY KEGER ACTOR WANTS A QUEER NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET REMAKE

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. "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.

ROBERT ENGLUND SAYS WE'RE READY FOR A GAY 'NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2'

"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.

“ELM STREET” DOCUMENTARY REVEALS FREDDY KEGER’S GAY SECRET 

Most members of the sequel's productn team have nied they were aware of the gay unrton throughout Nightmare 2 over the years.

Branch of London's Royal Amy of Dramatic Art attribut that portn of his tn to the many gay iends he ma durg the early days of his reer.

FREDDY KGER IS GAY

"So I had many gay iends and I crashed on uch at their ho when I started out as a workg actor. "In fact, my first time New York I was stayg wh a buddy who was one of the stars of Fortune Men's Ey and his roommate, Bobby, who happened to be gay, favored mk ats, and uld make the bt poor man's tequila sunrise wh lemona and orange juice. "I thk people tend to fet was a different atmosphere for gay people the '70s before AIDS.

"The growg homophobia and panic AIDS brought wh angered Englund, and he rells the exact moment he realized the epimic had bee a full-blown crisis. "Early on, the Nightmare on Elm Street films were seen as a sort of outsir art before they beme overhyped, and they were embraced by var cultur -- not jt gay culture, but piercg culture, goth culture, the blends of those cultur, heavy metal kids, and so on.

IS EDDY KEGER GAY

Englund speculat the new film won't be another remake of the origal and hop stead for a bolr choice: a new film based on Nightmare 2 that embrac the 1985 sequel's gay subtext.

At one pot he claimed to be bisexual, but he may have been a gay man who got volved wh members of the oppose sex bee he was tryg to survive — and build a reer — a very homophobic world.