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• ‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS
• NEVE CAMPBELL RPONDS TO SCREAM THEORI THAT BILLY AND STU ARE GAY
• NEVE CAMPBELL ADDRS GAY TENSN BETWEEN BILLY AND STU SCREAM
• SCREAM IN NEVE CAMPBELL WEIGHS ON THEORY ORIGAL FILM HAD A SECRET GAY ROMANCE
• NEVE CAMPBELL WEIGHS IN ON ‘SCREAM’ FAN THEORY THAT BILLY & STU WERE GAY
• [HORROR QUEERS] GAYG UP THE BIGGT HORROR FRANCHISE OF THE 90S WH ‘SCREAM’!
• IN THE SCREAM 5POSTER, THE FRANCHISE'S ‘GAY SURVIVAL’ SUBTEXT BE TEXT
• MORE GAY SH BUT 'S KD OF ANGST BUT NOT REALLY
• ANGSTY GAY SH
• GAY PORN STAR IS FOUND AD, AGED 21

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

If you’re still wonrg about those homoerotic unrton 25 years after Billy Loomis and Stu Macher terrorized Woodsboro W Craven’s “Scream, ” you’ve been on the right track all along. Ahead of the new “Scream, ” out Friday, openly gay screenwrer of the first “Scream, ” Kev Williamson, has nfirmed that Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu (Matthew Lillard), who are thought to be queer by many LGBTQ+ fan theorists, were based on famo mass murrers Nathan Frnthal Leopold Jr.

NEVE CAMPBELL RPONDS TO SCREAM THEORI THAT BILLY AND STU ARE GAY

And Richard Albert Loeb, both of whom reportedly admted they were gay and a relatnship.

NEVE CAMPBELL ADDRS GAY TENSN BETWEEN BILLY AND STU SCREAM

” Both are noted for their homoeroticism. “It’s very sort of homoerotic, the sense that there were the two guys that killed this other person jt to see if they uld get away wh , ” Williamson said, drawg parallels between the Leopold and Loeb se and Billy and Stu. In one scene, Ray (Shawn Wayans), based on Stu, and Bobby (Jon Abrahams), based on Billy, joke about beg gay, divulgg to a Sidney-like character lled Cdy (Anna Faris) that, “That’s right, Cdy, I’m gay.

Williamson adms that when he wrote the origal “Scream, ” which was released 1996, he was “very hant to prent the gay si of me my work, ” rultg the queerns of characters Billy and Stu beg “a ltle d and maybe accintal. Maybe I wouldn’t be that shy ltle gay wrer who felt like he uldn’t get away wh .

Recently, an terview wh The Inpennt, Williamson nfsed that the “Scream” movi are “d gay survival, ” wh Sidney beg, sentially, a maniftatn of his stggl as a gay person. “And so I thk that’s one of the reasons Fal Girls are so important to as a gay dience.

SCREAM IN NEVE CAMPBELL WEIGHS ON THEORY ORIGAL FILM HAD A SECRET GAY ROMANCE

” Before he wrote Sidney, he related to Jamie Lee Curtis’ Lrie Stro “Halloween” bee, beg gay, “he unrstands the “plight of the Fal Girl. “I thk gay kids everywhere unrstand that survival element that we have to sort of create ourselv. And when we’re watchg that Fal Girl have to prove herself and rise to the challenge and save her life, I thk that’s somethg gay kids anywhere n relate to.

Touched by how many LGBTQ+ people have felt spired by Sidney, Campbell said her heroic character “giv people that nfince that they n overe” and that she unrstands why “ mak sense certaly for the queer muny and gay men. Of urse Mdy is a rult of a shift LGBTQ+ reprentatn — now, to queer- characters would be an embarrassg step backwards — but Williamson also attribut the character to a shift his own growth as a gay man. That growth, he said, led him to wre the character of Jack McPhee, an openly gay teen who appeared as a “Dawson’s Creek” seri regular startg 1998.

Neve Campbell has revealed whether or not she agre wh theori that Billy and Stu were gay the origal Scream sce Scream first me out 1996, there have been multiple fan theori that Billy and Stu had romantic feelgs for each other.

NEVE CAMPBELL WEIGHS IN ON ‘SCREAM’ FAN THEORY THAT BILLY & STU WERE GAY

Randy even lls Billy a "homo reprsed momma's boy" Scream 2. Neve Campbell rponds to Scream theori that Billy and Stu are gay.

Jt last month (Dec 6), Kev Williamson, who wrote the origal Scream script, told the pennt that the first film is queer-d: "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.

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

I never believed the theory Billy and Stu are gay, but I jt found an Easter egg possible provg. But the meantime the actrs has taken the time to addrs one of the biggt (and longt) fan theori that has been discsed wh fan muni of Scream: are Billy and Stu gay and love?

Then there’s the homoerotic tensn of murrg people together, and then there’s the fact well…they did stab one another a few tim and we know what that bla uld be a metaphor for, right?

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

Regardls of what we thk about the gay tensn wh that relatnship, Neve Campbell also has her own thoughts about what the Billy and Stu relatnship meant Scream. Campbell isn’t the first actor to talk about the gay tensn between Billy and Stu. In other queer news, Kev Williamson, creator of Scream, has prevly talked about how the seri was d ‘gay survival’ om the very start – particularly wh the character of Sidney Prtt.

“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, ” Williamson stated.

What has never been clear is whether the homoerotic unrton of Scream were tentnal. Williamson wrote the origal script wh real life gay killers Nathan Frnthal Leopold Jr. Kev Williamson, ‘Scream’ Screenwrer Kev Williamson Confirms Billy and Stu’s Queer-Cod Relatnship Was Based on Real Gay Killers.

MORE GAY SH BUT 'S KD OF ANGST BUT NOT REALLY

” Pri Source also not that s ago Marlon and Shawn Wayans picked up on the subtleti of Billy and Stu’s relatnship when they clud gay jok about the pair the Scream spoof Sry Movie (2000). IN YOUR OPINION, Do you thk Billy and Stu were gay?

Kev Williamson said they were based off two gay killers and I thk that's jt . jt based off gay killers, not gay. Peter Benjam ma a Groupchat wh a whole lot of gay iends.

Gayns. Two killers walk to a gay bar. Scream‘s Neve Campbell has weighed on the long-nng fan theory that the film’s characters Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu (Matthew Lillard) were secretly gay.

ANGSTY GAY SH

Williamson said that she faced the same battle for survival as many young, gay kids, as he told the Inpennt: “One of the thgs I’ve wrtled wh is tst and Sidney tsted no one. Sidney is only able to intify that Officer Andrews and Richards are gay Scream 2 after seeg Billy and Stu cuddle the kchen —? But as a closeted gay kid growg up North Carola and Texas, fal girls were a figure he had long related to.

He add: “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. The subtle homoeroticism between the killers Scream is stated by the openly LGBTQ+ screenwrer Kev Williamson to be heavily fluenced by Leopold and Loeb.

GAY PORN STAR IS FOUND AD, AGED 21

It’s very sort of homoerotic, the sense that there were the two guys that killed this other person jt to see if they uld get away wh .

Though tails of Leopold and Loeb's relatnship get skewed, they admted to beg a homosexual relatnship. ” Campbell said as Azzopardi circled the qutn of whether Stu and Billy were secretly gay. “Yeah, ’s very much a possibily, and now that Kev’s out and talkg more about that, I would image that’s a big part of his thkg, ” add Campbell, referencg openly gay “Scream” creator Kev Williamson.

Ahead of the new “Scream, ” openly gay screenwrer of the first “Scream, ” Kev Williamson, has nfirmed that Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu (Matthew Lillard), who are thought to be queer by many LGBTQ+ fan theorists, were based on famo mass murrers Nathan Frnthal Leopold Jr.