In the 'Scream 5' Poster, the Franchise's Gay Subtext Be Text

Contents:

• IN THE 'SCREAM 5' POSTER, THE FRANCHISE'S GAY SUBTEXT BE TEXT
• IN THE SCREAM 5POSTER, THE FRANCHISE'S ‘GAY SURVIVAL’ SUBTEXT BE TEXT
• ‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS

IN THE 'SCREAM 5' POSTER, THE FRANCHISE'S GAY SUBTEXT BE TEXT

The new queer clive featurette a week after Scream screenwrer Kev Williamson said the anchise was spired by “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, ” he said. Subnscly, I thk the Scream movi are d gay survival. It’s been prent om the very start wh the subtly homoerotic tone of (warng: spoilers for Scream) Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu’s (Mathew Lillard) homicidal — and ultimately perative — bromance, the reveal of which se Billy quotg Norman Bat’s most famo le, “We all go a ltle mad sometim, ” origally spoken by legendary bi actor Anthony Perks.

This subtext rri through all four of the origal films, surfacg Scream 4 when Robbie (Erik Knudsen) clar “I’m gay... “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 explaed.

IN THE SCREAM 5POSTER, THE FRANCHISE'S ‘GAY SURVIVAL’ SUBTEXT BE TEXT

It's been prent om the very start wh the subtly homoerotic tone of (warng: spoilers for Scream) Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu's (Mathew Lillard) homicidal -- and ultimately perative -- bromance, the reveal of which se Billy quotg Norman Bat's most famo le, "We all go a ltle mad sometim, " origally spoken by legendary bi actor Anthony Perks. This subtext rri through all four of the origal films, surfacg Scream 4 when Robbie (Erik Knudsen) clar "I'm gay... "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 explaed. Homosexual acts are illegal Malaysia and punishable by f and up to 20 years prison. You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive, ” he said addrsg the dience.

In a December terview for The Inpennt, screenwrer Kev Williamson talked about how his childhood experience affected his work on the Scream anchise: "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 add, a statement that many queer Scream fans found vditg.

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

The first three movi the anchise may not have had any explicly LGBTQ+ characters, but much like the Matrix films om around that era, the queerns was the Sidney and Gale nstantly bucked genr norms their attempts to get through all, and Billy and Stu were loosely spired by real-life murrers a gay relatnship.

It helped that so many of the female actrs the seri – Courteney Cox, Lrie Metlf, Parker Posey, Sarah Michelle Gellar – were and are beloved by the gay muny. Mor characters (such as one of Sidney's bodyguards the send movie) are mentned to be gay, but there's rarely anythg more to than that. As great as the origal trilogy was, was still wrten at a time where cludg major queer characters uld have led to heavy phback om studs and the time Scream 4 me out, screenwrers had more leeway this regard, but the movie was still wrten at a time Ameri where even the Democratic Print was not yet openly supportive of issu like gay marriage.