A confused young man moves with his family to a new area. In his bedroom closet he discovers a diary that belonged to the girl who used to live there and in it she describes the dreams she had about an older man – Jesse is also having dreams about a similar older man.
He tries to talk to his parents, but they aren’t understanding and end up arguing with Jesse. Upset and even more confused, Jesse storms off into the night and eventually ends up at a gay leather bar where he finds his gym coach. The coach takes him back to the school gym for some late night exercise before telling Jesse to hit the showers while he goes back to his office.
However, something draws Jesse’s coach to the locker room and he ends up naked with Jesse under the steamy water, even getting his wrists tied to the shower taps with a gym rope for Jesse’s amusement.
Later we see Jesse getting intimate with his girlfriend in her parent’s pool and they’re about to make out, but he can’t go through with it and runs off to his best friend Ron’s house. He confides in his buddy about his confused feelings, telling him “there’s something inside of me” and asks Ron to sleep with him to ease the pain.
In the end, however, it’s the love of his girlfriend that enables Jesse to fully suppress his feelings and no longer have a man inside him … for now.
This is actually the story to A Nightmare On Elm Street 2 with all the nasty bits taken out.
It’s no secret how homoerotic and just downright gay the movie it – Freddy actor Robert Englund talked to Attitude magazine about this and a recent documentary on the series confirmed the writer’s intention – and horror fans regard it as a classic example of ‘homo horror’.
One little clue that could have easily cleared up the question of Jesse’s (played by openly gay actor Mark Patton) sexuality is the fact he has a poster of 80′s popstar Limahl on his wall, which you can spot in the movie’s trailer at 0:41. Limahl, in case you’ve forgotten or weren’t born, did this…



