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Subconsciously, I think the Scream movies are coded in gay survival.”
Actress Neve Campbell who played the iconic survivor Sidney Prescott in 5 of 6 films so far was also drawn into the discussion when interview by Pride Source in 2022.
“Perhaps, perhaps. It’s a tryst that he only seemed to blame Maureen for.
Now, with Billy, I honestly think he was just too sociopathic to really love anyone. And when we’re watching that Final Girl have to prove herself and rise to the challenge and save her life, I think that’s something gay kids anywhere can relate to.”
Touched by how many LGBTQ+ people have felt inspired by Sidney, Campbell said her heroic character “gives people that confidence that they can overcome” and that she understands why “it makes sense certainly for the queer community and gay men.
You can’t touch it, you can’t take it away.
Right before his death, he calls Billy a “rat-faced, homo-repressed Mama’s boy.”
So yep, whether fans like it or not, there are some queer vibes between Billy and Stu and Matthew Lillard loves it.
Matthew Lillard Confirms Scream Characters Billy And Stu Were Gay Lovers
Matthew Lillard, star of the original Scream film has confirmed a long held fan theory about the characters Billy Loomis and Stu Macher.
Fans have long theorised that the two killers from the first film where secretly lovers.
Now Lillard, who played Stu Macher in the film, has set the record straight (no pun intended) on his opinion about their relationship in the iconic film.
Matthew Lillard confirms Billy & Stu were “husbands of horror”
It’s crazy to think that nearly thirty years later the original Scream film is still being discussed and dissected in the media.
However with the 7th film in production it seems that audiences love of the iconic film which redefined a new generation of slasher films is still fresh and eager for more.
As more of the films have progressed over the years the Scream universe has expanded as legacy characters return and depart and family ties from the older films emerge, including the Scream 5 twist that one of the original killers, Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich), secretly fathered a daughter before his death.
With this retrospective focus on the films and their characters fan theories have continued to run rife on the internet, including a widely popular fan theory and Billy Loomis and Stu Macher were secretly gay lovers.
It’s not a huge stretch of the imagination when you recall the sexually charged ending to the first iconic film as the pair emerge, revealing themselves to Sidney Prescott as the men behind the masks.
In fact when you watch the compilation of moments between the two below, the theory that the two may have been lovers seems even less of a stretch.
Some fans have even gone as far as to create their own photoshopped fan pics of the two, which got plenty of attention last year.
As more details emerge about Scream 7, including the return of Neve Campbell, fans have also speculated about the return of Stu Macher, another long fan theory that he may not in fact be dead, angling for a return to the franchise.
Matthew Lillard appeared at the Silver Screen Con where he was also joined by co-stars Skeet Ulrich and Rose McGowan.
When the panel were asked about the gay relationship between the two McGowan responded saying “I feel maybe that’s a motive in Tatum’s death” she said of her character stating it could be a“deep subplot that maybe they weren’t even aware of.”
But Lillard doubled down on that theory confirming that he believed the two were in fact a couple.
“Maybe we were totally aware.
You can’t touch it, you can’t take it away.”
The actor’s comments have sparked widespread celebration among fans, particularly within the LGBTQ+ community, who have long interpreted the intense dynamic between Billy and Stu as more than just friendship. When asked about Billy and Stu in a revealing new interview with Pride Source, Campbell acknowledged a “burgeoning love relationship,” before elaborating on exactly what that means.
After calling them “pretty confused guys,” she said, “Maybe some of their anger comes from not being allowed to be who they want to be, if you wanna go there.” Was Stu more in love with Billy than the other way around?
And you'll read about it and you'll get, OK, that's Billy and Stu.”
This wasn’t lost on “Scream” queen Neve Campbell, who has starred as the film’s Ghostface-fighting heroine mainstay Sidney Prescott. And, we even get some in-universe suspicion from Randy in Scream 2. And it was sort of a fascinating case study on double murderers.
Matthew Lillard Says SCREAM’s Billy and Stu Are the ‘First Husbands of Horror’
Anyone who is a fan of the original Scream movie knows that Billy and Stu’s relationship was… interesting, to say the least.
Furthermore, Scream writer Kevin Williamson, who is himself gay, said that he modeled Billy and Stu after real-life gay killers Leopold and Loeb.
You can’t touch it, you can’t take it away.”
He also gave some love to any queer kiddos and said he loves them. And in case you haven’t noticed, so is Ray.”
Williamson admits that when he wrote the original “Scream,” which was released in 1996, he was “very hesitant to present the gay side of me in my work,” resulting in the queerness of characters Billy and Stu being “a little coded and maybe accidental.”
Now, he said, “maybe I’d be braver.
And Stu was the person who helped carry it out. “And it’s just part of life. Did Billy manipulate that? So, if there’s a little gay kid out there going, ‘Oh my god’, we see you, we love you.”
Kevin Williamson, the screenwriter of the original film had previously called the pair and their relationship “homoerotic” likening them to famous gay killers Leopold and Loeb.
Williamson himself is gay and spoke of the films “gay coding” to The Independent in 2024.
“As a gay kid, I related to the final girl and to her struggle, because it’s what one has to do to survive as a young gay kid, too” he said.
“You’re watching this girl survive the night and survive the trauma she’s enduring.
It is also not impossible that Billy did have feelings for Stu. He probably felt he had to repress them due to social pressures. Some just knew. Maybe. “It’s very sort of homoerotic,” Williamson said, “in the sense that there were these two guys who killed just to see if they could get away with it.”
Fans have long pointed to moments in the film that suggest romantic tension: Stu’s emotional dependence on Billy, the physical closeness during their villain reveal, and the infamous “peer pressure” line delivered with a vulnerability that hinted at deeper feelings.
Rose McGowan even joked during the panel that the relationship might have been a motive in her character’s death, calling it a “deep subplot that maybe they weren’t even aware of.” Lillard responded, “Maybe we were totally aware.”
With Scream 7 currently in production and legacy characters returning, speculation is rife that Stu Macher might reappear - potentially giving the franchise a chance to explore this relationship more explicitly.
And Matthew Lillard couldn’t agree more that Billy and Stu’s relationship is queer coded and, as he says, they are the “first husbands of horror.”
This entire conversation sprang up during an appearance by Lillard and Skeet Ulrich at Silver Scream Convention in Massachusetts.
It’s been called the “perfect crime,” one that has influenced Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rope” as well as the 2002 crime thriller “Murder by Numbers.” Both are noted for their homoeroticism.
Now, nearly three decades after “Scream” came out, theorists can officially categorize “Scream” in that same queer-coded realm.
“It’s very sort of homoerotic, in the sense that there were these two guys that killed this other person just to see if they could get away with it,” Williamson said, drawing parallels between the Leopold and Loeb case and Billy and Stu.
“And one of the reasons that one could get the other one [to follow] is because I think the other one was secretly in love with him.