How Disney Star Ross Lynch Plays a Gay Killer 'My Friend Dahmer' - Variety

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• HOW DISNEY STAR ROSS LYNCH PLAYS A GAY SERIAL KILLER ‘MY FRIEND DAHMER’
• NETFLIX’S DAHMER CAN’T CONQUER ITS GRIM FASCATNRYAN MURPHY’S LATT TURN THE TE CRIME GENRE MAK DIENC WONR WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MONSTER BE MYTHOLOGIZED. BY RICHARD LAWSONSEPTEMBER 23, 2022COURTESY OF NETFLIXSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMAYBE ’S A TTAMENT TO THE CLUNKILY TLED DAHMER—MONSTER: THE JEFEY DAHMER STORY (ON NETFLIX NOW) THAT WATCHG THE SERI PUT ME A FUNK FOR DAYS. SURELY SOMETHG SO GRIMLY AFFECTG MT BE DOG S JOB, CREATG AN ENVELOPG MOOD OF DREAD AND SADNS THAT PERMEAT WHATEVER ROOM YOU’RE , LIKE A FOUL, PABLE STENCH. IN THAT SENSE, CREATORS RYAN MURPHY AND IAN BRENNAN HAVE, I SUPPOSE, ACPLISHED ONE OF THEIR GOALS.BUT AT THE END OF DAHMER’S GRDG 10-HOUR N, I WAS LEFT WONRG IF THAT GOAL WAS EVER A WORTHY ONE, OR IF THE WHOLE ENTERPRISE—ALL OF THIS REENACTED AWFULNS—WASN’T A TERRIBLE AND OFTEN CEL WASTE OF TIME. SOME OF THE SHOW’S AIMS ARE NOBLE. IT NSIRS AT LEAST SOME OF THE VICTIMS THE FULLNS OF THEIR LIV—THEIR ASPIRATNS, THEIR FAI—AND LV TO THE FACT THAT MOST OF DAHMER’S VICTIMS WERE MEN AND BOYS OF LOR. THIS TERSECTS WH THE NEGLECT OF THE MILWKEE POLICE PARTMENT, WHICH HAD MYRIAD OPPORTUNI TO STOP DAHMER AS HE WENT ABOUT HIS KILLG, BUT ROUTELY IGNORED THE NCERNS OF PEOPLE HIS MUNY.NIECY NASH PLAYS GLENDA CLEVELAND, DAHMER’S NEIGHBOR WHEN HE LIVED THE MILWKEE APARTMENT PLEX THAT WAS THE SE OF HIS FAL SPATE OF MURRS. SHE’S GIVEN AMPLE SPACE ON THE SHOW, TO RAGE AND PLEAD AND, TOWARD THE END, TRY TO FD SOME SORT OF PEACE THE WRECKAGE DAHMER LEFT BEHD. NASH IS TERRIFIC THE ROLE, AND THE PASSN EXTEND TOWARD CLEVELAND, WHO HAD MOSTLY BEE A FOOTNOTE DAHMER LORE, IS TO THE SHOW’S CRED. AS ARE S DOLEFUL NSIRATNS OF VICTIMS TONY HUGH (RODNEY BURNFORD) AND 14-YEAR-OLD KONERAK STHASOMPHONE (KIERAN TAMONDONG) AND THEIR FAI.EVEN IF THE SHOW VOLVED THE FAI S PRODUCTN OR AT LEAST GOT THEIR BLSG (THERE IS SOME EVINCE THAT THEY DID NOT), DAHMER’S DUTIFUL RECATN OF HORRIFIC THGS ULD LIKELY NEVER EXIST WHOUT A TRACE OF PRIENCE. MANY OF S VIEWERS, MYSELF CLUD, ARE SURELY PARTIALLY DRAWN TO THE SHOW OUT OF MORBID FASCATN—A NATURAL HUMAN IMPULSE THAT HAS BEE PERHAPS OVER-SERVED THE TE-CRIME BOOM YEARS.ON DAHMER, NOT EVERYTHG IS TE. THERE ARE ELISNS S HISTORY AND A HOST OF NARRATIVE VENTNS. SOME OF THE LATTER, PECIALLY THOSE VOLVG HUGH, ULD BE EXPLAED AWAY BY THE SHOW’S OCSNAL TILTS TO SURREALISM. MAYBE THE GENUE RELATNSHIP WE SEE VELOPG BETWEEN DAHMER AND HUGH BEFORE HUGH IS MURRED IS SIMPLY MEANT AS TRAGIC FANTASY. BUT ONE TOO TIGHTLY FEELS THE MANIPULATIVE GRIP OF THE SERI THE MOMENTS, A FIRM HAND WRGG OUT EMOTN BY ANY MEANS NECSARY. WHILE ALSO FOLLOWG A HOLLYWOOD MANDATE TO ENTERTA. GIVEN THAT THIS IS A RYAN MURPHY PRODUCTN, SHOULDN’T BE ALL THAT SURPRISG THAT DAHMER’S GAZE OFTEN SEEMS LS THAN HIGH-MD. DAHMER IS PLAYED BY MURPHY-VERSE MASTAY EVAN PETERS, WHO PLEXLY EMBODI A MAN WHOSE TE NER LIFE WAS, MANY WAYS, ENTIRELY UNKNOWABLE. (DAHMER GRANTED SEVERAL LONG TERVIEWS WHILE PRISON, BUT THERE IS SOMETHG OPAQUE AND EVASIVE ABOUT HIM EVEN THERE.) IT’S A MMERIZG PERFORMANCE, AND YET WE ARE PERHAPS TOO DRAWN TO DAHMER—OR PETERS’S VERSN OF HIM. PETERS IS A GOOD-LOOKG GUY, AND ON MANY OCSNS THROUGHOUT THE SERI, THE MERA SEEMS LTY AWE OF THAT FACT. HOW EXACTLY IS DAHMER BEG MYTHOLOGIZED THE STANC?THIS WAS ALSO A PROBLEM WH NETFLIX’S TED BUNDY MOVIE, EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKGLY EVIL AND VILE, WHICH ZAC EON TURNED A SADIST TO A RAKISH HUNK. (EON IS QUE GOOD THAT MOVIE, BUT ’S ALL SERVICE OF LURID ENDS.) DAHMER IS PCHED DIFFERENTLY THAN THAT ALMOST LIGHTHEARTED MOVIE, BUT THE SERI STILL HAS A CUR AND QUEASY VIEW OF HOW SEX FUNCTNS S STORY. IT’S ALL TOO EASY TO GET THE IMPRSN THAT, AT TIM, DAHMER IS SUPPOSED TO BE SOME SORT OF MUNALLY RELATED-TO GAY DRAMA, WH A HANDSOME YOUNG MAN AT THE CENTER, MUCH AS MURPHY ATTEMPTED (AND, FOR THE MOST, PARTLY SUCCEED AT) THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE.BUT ANDREW CUNANAN, WHO KILLED VERSACE, WAS A DANGERO FABULIST WHO WANTED ADMIRATN AND ATTENTN—HIS CRIM POTED OUTWARD, TOWARD THE ZEGEIST, TOWARD THE KD OF MEDIA ATTENTN THAT CERTALY FOLLOWED. VERSACE MAYBE DID TOO MUCH TO GIVE A KILLER EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTED, BUT THE SHOW STILL FELT, SOMEHOW, PROPERLY AMED.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDDAHMER, ON THE OTHER HAND, DO FAR TOO MUCH WORK HALOG S ANNIHILATOR AN RA OF APPEAL. THERE’S A RIPPLE OF SEXUAL EXCEMENT THE AIR AS DAHMER GAZ AT SHIRTLS MEN VAR SETTGS, A SIRE PRENTED MORE AS MON QUEER FEELG THAN PRELU TO PREDATN. WHICH MAY BRG THE SERI CLOSE TO AN UNSETTLG TTH—THAT SO MUCH SERIAL MURR IS THE RULT OF SEXUAL IMPULS NOT AS FAR OM OUR OWN AS WE’D LIKE—OR ’S SIMPLY TOO MUCH OF MURPHY’S PERSONAL EDORIALIZG. HE’S BEE EPLY VTED HIS IA OF THE TORTURED, LIMAL SPACE BETWEEN GAY EXPRSN AND GAY PA, AS EVINCED EQUENTLY ON AMERIN HORROR STORY, THE BOYS THE BAND, AND ONE PARTICULARLY PUNISHG EPISO OF HOLLYWOOD, WHICH A GOLN AGE HOE PARTY REVEALS A TOXIC ROT AT THE RE OF GAY INTY.THE FORC OF OPPRSN AND THE ATTENDANT SELF-LOATHG THAT AFFECT MANY GAY PEOPLE NO DOUBT ME TO BEAR ON DAHMER, TOO. BUT I DON’T THK WE NEED TO TURN TO HIM, OF ALL PEOPLE, TO HELP BETTER UNRSTAND OURSELV OR OUR MUNY. FOR ALL OF DAHMER’S ADMIRABLE QUIRY TO THE LIV OF S VICTIMS AND THE FAILUR OF CIVIC STUTNS TO PREVENT THEIR ATHS—AND S SENSIVE PICTN OF DAHMER’S FATHER, ACHGLY RENRED BY RICHARD JENKS—THERE IS ALSO S STRAED QUEER ARGUMENT, ONE THAT MANDS THAT WE S BI DAHMER AS SOMETHG OF A FELLOW TRAVELER. WHICH IMBU HIM WH A POWER AND MEANG THAT NS AFOUL OF THE SHOW’S BETTER TENTNS.MAYBE THERE IS, LURKG SOMEWHERE ALL THIS HEAVILY ARTICULATED DARK, SOMETHG PROFOUNDLY RELEVANT ABOUT DAHMER. OR MAYBE THIS IS JT ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF MURPHY AND PANY TRYG TO DRS UP THEIR SORDID—AND, Y, UNRSTANDABLE—TERT THE CLOTHG OF HIGHER PURPOSE. THE SHOW CLOSE TO EARNG S WALLOW WHEN TURNS TO FOC ON GLENDA AND OTHERS, WHEN SHAK S HEAD ANGRILY AT THE DISREGARD OF THE MILWKEE POLICE. BUT FAR TOO MUCH OF THE SHOW IS SPENT STANDG OVER DAHMER’S SHOULR, WATCHG HIM ACTN. IT BE HARD TO SEE THE SHOW AS ANYTHG MORE THAN LASCIV.A LATER EPISO OF THE SERI OPENS WH A BTAL PICTN OF ONE OF JOHN WAYNE GACY’S MURRS. HE ALSO KILLED YOUNG MEN THE MIDWT, AND HE HAPPENED TO BE EXECUTED ON THE SAME DAY THAT DAHMER WAS BAPTIZED PRISON. (THERE WAS ALSO A SOLAR ECLIPSE—A NVERGENCE OF EVENTS THAT DAHMER REGARDS AS SOMETHG PORTENTO AND MYTHIC.) BUT WHAT REAL JTIFITN FOR THIS GNARLY SCENE EXISTS BEYOND THE SHOW WANTG TO STAGE ONE MORE ACT OF SADISM, WANTG TO REMD ONCE MORE ABOUT THE CREEPS AND MENAC SKULKG AROUND THE EDG OF—I GUS—GAY INTY, AND MAYBE TH LYG DORMANT OURSELV?RIGID OR NAIVE AS MIGHT MAKE ME, I REJECT THAT PREMISE. THE 2017 FILM MY FRIEND DAHMER DO A BETTER JOB OF PEERG, BRIEFLY, SI DAHMER’S HEAD. THE FILM, NSC OF ALL THAT WILL NEVER BE KNOWN ABOUT HIM, DON’T TRY TO TETHER DAHMER TO A THK-PIECE TALKG POT. DAHMER’S LONG-FORM EXAMATN, THOUGH, VERG ON PERVERSE VENERATN. WHILE THE SERI RPECTFULLY MOURNS AND VEIGHS ALL THE LOSS THAT SURROUNDS HIM, ALSO TURNS DAHMER TO A HIOLY IMMORTAL THG: AN IN.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)RICHARD LAWSON
• MY FRIEND DAHMER DEFTLY PORTRAYS TEEN YEARS OF GAY SERIAL KILLER

HOW DISNEY STAR ROSS LYNCH PLAYS A GAY SERIAL KILLER ‘MY FRIEND DAHMER’

As te-crime followers know, Jefey Dahmer was gay, but what may e as a surprise is how his fay learned of his sexualy and what their reactn was based on their nservative valu. Was Jefey Dahmer gay?

Dahmer me out as gay for the first time to a judge 1989 after he was nvicted of sexual asslt and enticg a child for immoral purpos, acrdg to the Don Davis’ 1992 bgraphy The Milwkee Murrs: Nightmare Apartment 213: the Twisted Te Story of the “Real-life Hannibal Lecter.

Dvorchak and Lisa Holewa reported their 1992 book, Milwkee Massacre: Jefey Dahmer and the Milwkee Murrs, that Dahmer’s mother was more tolerant wh him beg gay.

NETFLIX’S DAHMER CAN’T CONQUER ITS GRIM FASCATNRYAN MURPHY’S LATT TURN THE TE CRIME GENRE MAK DIENC WONR WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MONSTER BE MYTHOLOGIZED. BY RICHARD LAWSONSEPTEMBER 23, 2022COURTESY OF NETFLIXSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMAYBE ’S A TTAMENT TO THE CLUNKILY TLED DAHMER—MONSTER: THE JEFEY DAHMER STORY (ON NETFLIX NOW) THAT WATCHG THE SERI PUT ME A FUNK FOR DAYS. SURELY SOMETHG SO GRIMLY AFFECTG MT BE DOG S JOB, CREATG AN ENVELOPG MOOD OF DREAD AND SADNS THAT PERMEAT WHATEVER ROOM YOU’RE , LIKE A FOUL, PABLE STENCH. IN THAT SENSE, CREATORS RYAN MURPHY AND IAN BRENNAN HAVE, I SUPPOSE, ACPLISHED ONE OF THEIR GOALS.BUT AT THE END OF DAHMER’S GRDG 10-HOUR N, I WAS LEFT WONRG IF THAT GOAL WAS EVER A WORTHY ONE, OR IF THE WHOLE ENTERPRISE—ALL OF THIS REENACTED AWFULNS—WASN’T A TERRIBLE AND OFTEN CEL WASTE OF TIME. SOME OF THE SHOW’S AIMS ARE NOBLE. IT NSIRS AT LEAST SOME OF THE VICTIMS THE FULLNS OF THEIR LIV—THEIR ASPIRATNS, THEIR FAI—AND LV TO THE FACT THAT MOST OF DAHMER’S VICTIMS WERE MEN AND BOYS OF LOR. THIS TERSECTS WH THE NEGLECT OF THE MILWKEE POLICE PARTMENT, WHICH HAD MYRIAD OPPORTUNI TO STOP DAHMER AS HE WENT ABOUT HIS KILLG, BUT ROUTELY IGNORED THE NCERNS OF PEOPLE HIS MUNY.NIECY NASH PLAYS GLENDA CLEVELAND, DAHMER’S NEIGHBOR WHEN HE LIVED THE MILWKEE APARTMENT PLEX THAT WAS THE SE OF HIS FAL SPATE OF MURRS. SHE’S GIVEN AMPLE SPACE ON THE SHOW, TO RAGE AND PLEAD AND, TOWARD THE END, TRY TO FD SOME SORT OF PEACE THE WRECKAGE DAHMER LEFT BEHD. NASH IS TERRIFIC THE ROLE, AND THE PASSN EXTEND TOWARD CLEVELAND, WHO HAD MOSTLY BEE A FOOTNOTE DAHMER LORE, IS TO THE SHOW’S CRED. AS ARE S DOLEFUL NSIRATNS OF VICTIMS TONY HUGH (RODNEY BURNFORD) AND 14-YEAR-OLD KONERAK STHASOMPHONE (KIERAN TAMONDONG) AND THEIR FAI.EVEN IF THE SHOW VOLVED THE FAI S PRODUCTN OR AT LEAST GOT THEIR BLSG (THERE IS SOME EVINCE THAT THEY DID NOT), DAHMER’S DUTIFUL RECATN OF HORRIFIC THGS ULD LIKELY NEVER EXIST WHOUT A TRACE OF PRIENCE. MANY OF S VIEWERS, MYSELF CLUD, ARE SURELY PARTIALLY DRAWN TO THE SHOW OUT OF MORBID FASCATN—A NATURAL HUMAN IMPULSE THAT HAS BEE PERHAPS OVER-SERVED THE TE-CRIME BOOM YEARS.ON DAHMER, NOT EVERYTHG IS TE. THERE ARE ELISNS S HISTORY AND A HOST OF NARRATIVE VENTNS. SOME OF THE LATTER, PECIALLY THOSE VOLVG HUGH, ULD BE EXPLAED AWAY BY THE SHOW’S OCSNAL TILTS TO SURREALISM. MAYBE THE GENUE RELATNSHIP WE SEE VELOPG BETWEEN DAHMER AND HUGH BEFORE HUGH IS MURRED IS SIMPLY MEANT AS TRAGIC FANTASY. BUT ONE TOO TIGHTLY FEELS THE MANIPULATIVE GRIP OF THE SERI THE MOMENTS, A FIRM HAND WRGG OUT EMOTN BY ANY MEANS NECSARY. WHILE ALSO FOLLOWG A HOLLYWOOD MANDATE TO ENTERTA. GIVEN THAT THIS IS A RYAN MURPHY PRODUCTN, SHOULDN’T BE ALL THAT SURPRISG THAT DAHMER’S GAZE OFTEN SEEMS LS THAN HIGH-MD. DAHMER IS PLAYED BY MURPHY-VERSE MASTAY EVAN PETERS, WHO PLEXLY EMBODI A MAN WHOSE TE NER LIFE WAS, MANY WAYS, ENTIRELY UNKNOWABLE. (DAHMER GRANTED SEVERAL LONG TERVIEWS WHILE PRISON, BUT THERE IS SOMETHG OPAQUE AND EVASIVE ABOUT HIM EVEN THERE.) IT’S A MMERIZG PERFORMANCE, AND YET WE ARE PERHAPS TOO DRAWN TO DAHMER—OR PETERS’S VERSN OF HIM. PETERS IS A GOOD-LOOKG GUY, AND ON MANY OCSNS THROUGHOUT THE SERI, THE MERA SEEMS LTY AWE OF THAT FACT. HOW EXACTLY IS DAHMER BEG MYTHOLOGIZED THE STANC?THIS WAS ALSO A PROBLEM WH NETFLIX’S TED BUNDY MOVIE, EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKGLY EVIL AND VILE, WHICH ZAC EON TURNED A SADIST TO A RAKISH HUNK. (EON IS QUE GOOD THAT MOVIE, BUT ’S ALL SERVICE OF LURID ENDS.) DAHMER IS PCHED DIFFERENTLY THAN THAT ALMOST LIGHTHEARTED MOVIE, BUT THE SERI STILL HAS A CUR AND QUEASY VIEW OF HOW SEX FUNCTNS S STORY. IT’S ALL TOO EASY TO GET THE IMPRSN THAT, AT TIM, DAHMER IS SUPPOSED TO BE SOME SORT OF MUNALLY RELATED-TO GAY DRAMA, WH A HANDSOME YOUNG MAN AT THE CENTER, MUCH AS MURPHY ATTEMPTED (AND, FOR THE MOST, PARTLY SUCCEED AT) THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE.BUT ANDREW CUNANAN, WHO KILLED VERSACE, WAS A DANGERO FABULIST WHO WANTED ADMIRATN AND ATTENTN—HIS CRIM POTED OUTWARD, TOWARD THE ZEGEIST, TOWARD THE KD OF MEDIA ATTENTN THAT CERTALY FOLLOWED. VERSACE MAYBE DID TOO MUCH TO GIVE A KILLER EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTED, BUT THE SHOW STILL FELT, SOMEHOW, PROPERLY AMED.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDDAHMER, ON THE OTHER HAND, DO FAR TOO MUCH WORK HALOG S ANNIHILATOR AN RA OF APPEAL. THERE’S A RIPPLE OF SEXUAL EXCEMENT THE AIR AS DAHMER GAZ AT SHIRTLS MEN VAR SETTGS, A SIRE PRENTED MORE AS MON QUEER FEELG THAN PRELU TO PREDATN. WHICH MAY BRG THE SERI CLOSE TO AN UNSETTLG TTH—THAT SO MUCH SERIAL MURR IS THE RULT OF SEXUAL IMPULS NOT AS FAR OM OUR OWN AS WE’D LIKE—OR ’S SIMPLY TOO MUCH OF MURPHY’S PERSONAL EDORIALIZG. HE’S BEE EPLY VTED HIS IA OF THE TORTURED, LIMAL SPACE BETWEEN GAY EXPRSN AND GAY PA, AS EVINCED EQUENTLY ON AMERIN HORROR STORY, THE BOYS THE BAND, AND ONE PARTICULARLY PUNISHG EPISO OF HOLLYWOOD, WHICH A GOLN AGE HOE PARTY REVEALS A TOXIC ROT AT THE RE OF GAY INTY.THE FORC OF OPPRSN AND THE ATTENDANT SELF-LOATHG THAT AFFECT MANY GAY PEOPLE NO DOUBT ME TO BEAR ON DAHMER, TOO. BUT I DON’T THK WE NEED TO TURN TO HIM, OF ALL PEOPLE, TO HELP BETTER UNRSTAND OURSELV OR OUR MUNY. FOR ALL OF DAHMER’S ADMIRABLE QUIRY TO THE LIV OF S VICTIMS AND THE FAILUR OF CIVIC STUTNS TO PREVENT THEIR ATHS—AND S SENSIVE PICTN OF DAHMER’S FATHER, ACHGLY RENRED BY RICHARD JENKS—THERE IS ALSO S STRAED QUEER ARGUMENT, ONE THAT MANDS THAT WE S BI DAHMER AS SOMETHG OF A FELLOW TRAVELER. WHICH IMBU HIM WH A POWER AND MEANG THAT NS AFOUL OF THE SHOW’S BETTER TENTNS.MAYBE THERE IS, LURKG SOMEWHERE ALL THIS HEAVILY ARTICULATED DARK, SOMETHG PROFOUNDLY RELEVANT ABOUT DAHMER. OR MAYBE THIS IS JT ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF MURPHY AND PANY TRYG TO DRS UP THEIR SORDID—AND, Y, UNRSTANDABLE—TERT THE CLOTHG OF HIGHER PURPOSE. THE SHOW CLOSE TO EARNG S WALLOW WHEN TURNS TO FOC ON GLENDA AND OTHERS, WHEN SHAK S HEAD ANGRILY AT THE DISREGARD OF THE MILWKEE POLICE. BUT FAR TOO MUCH OF THE SHOW IS SPENT STANDG OVER DAHMER’S SHOULR, WATCHG HIM ACTN. IT BE HARD TO SEE THE SHOW AS ANYTHG MORE THAN LASCIV.A LATER EPISO OF THE SERI OPENS WH A BTAL PICTN OF ONE OF JOHN WAYNE GACY’S MURRS. HE ALSO KILLED YOUNG MEN THE MIDWT, AND HE HAPPENED TO BE EXECUTED ON THE SAME DAY THAT DAHMER WAS BAPTIZED PRISON. (THERE WAS ALSO A SOLAR ECLIPSE—A NVERGENCE OF EVENTS THAT DAHMER REGARDS AS SOMETHG PORTENTO AND MYTHIC.) BUT WHAT REAL JTIFITN FOR THIS GNARLY SCENE EXISTS BEYOND THE SHOW WANTG TO STAGE ONE MORE ACT OF SADISM, WANTG TO REMD ONCE MORE ABOUT THE CREEPS AND MENAC SKULKG AROUND THE EDG OF—I GUS—GAY INTY, AND MAYBE TH LYG DORMANT OURSELV?RIGID OR NAIVE AS MIGHT MAKE ME, I REJECT THAT PREMISE. THE 2017 FILM MY FRIEND DAHMER DO A BETTER JOB OF PEERG, BRIEFLY, SI DAHMER’S HEAD. THE FILM, NSC OF ALL THAT WILL NEVER BE KNOWN ABOUT HIM, DON’T TRY TO TETHER DAHMER TO A THK-PIECE TALKG POT. DAHMER’S LONG-FORM EXAMATN, THOUGH, VERG ON PERVERSE VENERATN. WHILE THE SERI RPECTFULLY MOURNS AND VEIGHS ALL THE LOSS THAT SURROUNDS HIM, ALSO TURNS DAHMER TO A HIOLY IMMORTAL THG: AN IN.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)RICHARD LAWSON

The book reported that Dahmer and Joyce had a nversatn over telephone March 1991 where Joyce told her son that she had “no problem acceptg his gayns. ” The book also reported that Lnel, a fundamentalist Christian, often ma negative ments about gay men and lbians throughout Dahmer’s childhood and remaed agast homosexualy even after Dahmer’s trial. ” Lnel also told reporter Stone Phillips at the time that he would have “tried to change” Dahmer if his son had told him he was gay bee he still believed that homosexualy was a s.

MY FRIEND DAHMER DEFTLY PORTRAYS TEEN YEARS OF GAY SERIAL KILLER

Though Dahmer hadn’t e out until he was an adult, his attorney claimed his trial 1992 that the serial killer had “disvered and accepted his homosexualy” as an adolcent. Milwkee Massacre also reported that Dahmer “admted to [him]self he is gay” to his probatn officer 1991 and “told agent that’s the way he is so ‘fuck .

"I'm not adult Dahmer gog to gay bars and lookg for victims. "This versn of Jefey Dahmer, directed by Marc Meyers and adapted om Derf Backrf's popular non-fictn graphic novel, is a gay, lonely teenager whose iends treat him like an ironic mast rather than a person.