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‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS
In the new Scream VI, the “Core Four” characters relote to New York Cy, where Mdy proudly sports pro-gay shirts while attendg llege wh her iends. 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. 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.
And Richard Albert Loeb, both of whom reportedly admted they were gay and a relatnship. ” 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.