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