Sunday, June 26, 2011

Diamond Admits That the Screech and Mr. Belding Characters Were Gay!!!

Dustin Diamond's "Behind the Bell" autobiography/expose on his Saved By The Bell experiences hit store shelves in September 2009 and has been universally panned. I have not yet read the book myself, although I did read a recent review of the book in the Onion's AV Club. According to the Onion AV Club article, Diamond admits that his character Screech had a gay relationship with Mr. Belding, as Diamond's queer fans have suspected for years!

The article recites:
Diamond writes about how he suspected that the writers of The New Class deliberately tried to undermine him and co-star Mr. Belding (he has a name, yes, but neither you nor I should ever invoke it) by making their relationship not so much homoerotic as explicitly homosexual. According to Diamond, they’d write stage directions where Screech and Mr. Belding gaze into each other’s eyes and soulfully embrace. If Diamond is being truthful—I assume everything he says is at the very least a big exaggeration—then that is officially the most awesome shit ever. Rock on, subversive, anonymous Saved By The Bell: The New Class scribes.

1 comment:

Wetfarts4you said...

OMG THIS WAS HOT! I just shot my loaf just thinking about that homoerotic tension.