'A Nightmare on Elm Street 2': Robert Englund talks sequel's gay subtext

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. "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.

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

"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.

"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.

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

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. 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.

"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.

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

"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. 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.

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

Mercury hid his sexualy om his fayFor most of Mercury's life, the wir world didn't accept gays and bisexuals. LGBT people were barely reprented the media, and the msage society had to offer was that not beg heterosexual was homophobia rampant, many gay men felt prsured to hi their sexualy, cludg om their fai.

Mercury's Parsee parents practiced Zoroastrianism, a relign that saw beg gay as a type of mon worship. The two lived together for several years and even got engaged before Mercury told At he was bisexual (her rponse was that she thought he was gay). " Ci like New York and Munich had gay scen where Mercury, who'd lled his sex drive "enormo" and who'd sung about beg "a sex mache ready to reload, " found one-night stands and UP FOR THE NEWSLETTERBeg a rock star allowed Mercury to ph genr boundariMercury was the one who suggted namg the band Queen, which at the time was a rogatory term for a gay man.

Among his sartorial choic were leotards, angel-wg cloaks, tight shorts, and leather or PVC attire that evoked a biker image then popular gay a star allowed Mercury to ph some boundari, but he still lived at a time when honty about his attractn to men uld have limed his reer, and the reers of his bandmat.

FREDDY KGER IS GAY

Mercury didn't label his sexualy even after his AIDS diagnosisThe exact circumstanc of how Mercury was fected wh HIV are unknown, but the vis was spreadg through New York Cy's gay muny the late 1970s and early '80s. )As the 1980s progrsed, was obv many gay men were gettg sick and there was talk about a "gay ncer"; Mercury himself knew people wh the disease. Even after velopg AIDS, he nied reports about his illns and beg gay.

IS EDDY KEGER GAY

He was more upont wh his bandmat, but never told his fay why he was reason for Mercury's silence was worry about how his public image and legacy would change wh this revelatn, which at the time would have been enough to nfirm him as gay. (Image cred: Alamy)As a new box-set of Mercury’s solo work is released, Nick Leve nsirs the Queen legend’s myster inty – and his plex relatnship wh both his race and 1984, two years after the Gay Men’s Health Crisis anisatn was formed New York to bat Aids, Freddie Mercury sred his first solo h wh Love Kills. In his lifetime, Brish newspaper The Sun brand the sger a “bisexual rock star”, and recent years the media has equently referred to him as gay.

” On another ocsn, he answered a siar qutn by sayg playfully: “I’m as gay as a daffodil, my ar!