In 'Last Call', a serial killer targets Manhattan's '90s gay bars. Insi the te story

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• IN 'LAST CALL', A SERIAL KILLER TARGETS MANHATTAN'S '90S GAY BARS. INSI THE TE STORY
• ‘LAST CALL,’ A NEW HBO DOCERI, REUNTS THE 1990S SERIAL KILLGS OF GAY MEN OM PHILALPHIA. HERE’S HOW WE VERED THEM.
• AT LA’S UNOFFICIAL GAY BEACH, VANDALS DEFACED LIFEGUARD TOWERS PATED IN PROGRS PRI COLORS
• GAYT PLAC IN ARKANSAS FOR 2020
• SEARCH PARTY'S CO-CREATOR RECKONS WH ITS 'WHE GAY NARCISSISM'
• WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WH THE 'LAST CALL' KILLER WHO TERRORIZED NYC'S GAY NIGHTSPOTS 1980S AND '90S?
• AARON RODGERS POSSIBLY BEG GAY ISN’T A JOKE
• GAY ROGERS

IN 'LAST CALL', A SERIAL KILLER TARGETS MANHATTAN'S '90S GAY BARS. INSI THE TE STORY

Rogers, who would e to be known as the Last Call Killer, is a serial killer who primarily targeted gay and bisexual men New York Cy the 1990s. All the victims were gay or bisexual men their 40s and 50s, and all were eher stabbed or beaten to ath. All except Marrero were last seen at gay bars Manhattan.

In the HBO seri, “Last Call, ” the stori of the murred men are told poignant, tenr tail, unrsrg the strength of the gay muny of the era, and the btaly and vastatn bore for so many years. Directed by Anthony Caronna and executive produced by Howard Gertler om Elon Green’s 2021 nonfictn book, “Last Call” pulls back the curta on the killg spree of Richard Rogers, a male nurse who, as far back as the 1980s and until 2001 when he was eventually ught by thori, targeted gay men New York and New Jersey.

(Prr, 1973, he was acquted of killg his llege hoemate what he alleged was a f of gay panic. Beneath the grislier aspects tailed the seri — Rogers’ mod operandi volved dismemberment and strewg body parts around the Tri-State Area — is also an evotive snapshot of gay New York the early 1990s.

‘LAST CALL,’ A NEW HBO DOCERI, REUNTS THE 1990S SERIAL KILLGS OF GAY MEN OM PHILALPHIA. HERE’S HOW WE VERED THEM.

Rogers also picked up and murred Thomas Richard Mulhy, a married father of four who lived an unrver gay life and whose dghter reunts touchg memori of him. There was also Michael Sakara, the mayor of Townhoe, who is warmly remembered by former employe of the bar and by his sister, who is also gay. In the harrowg send episo of “Last Call, ” which is primarily foced on Marrero and the fallout wh the unrground gay muny of his murr, one of Rogers’ alleged attempted victims speaks anonymoly about his bsh wh someone whose MO sounds closely like the killer’s.

The NYPD’s often futile pursu of him across the years turns the seri to a documentary thriller s fal stag — futile also bee of the police’s own seemgly homophobic refal to take the murrs more serly.

AT LA’S UNOFFICIAL GAY BEACH, VANDALS DEFACED LIFEGUARD TOWERS PATED IN PROGRS PRI COLORS

In a timely harkeng to recent ntroversi surroundg The New York Tim’ verage of trans people, “Last Call” touch on the bias at the Tim and other New York media outlets that emed Rogers (before his inty was known) as the “gay-slay” killer obvly bee had a tchy, if--bleeds--leads rhyme to .

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GAYT PLAC IN ARKANSAS FOR 2020

HBO’s doceri “Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked New York” has gaed tractn sce premiered on July four-part seri vtigat the stori surroundg a serial killer who targeted gay men a seri of btal murrs and dismemberments the 1990s.

SEARCH PARTY'S CO-CREATOR RECKONS WH ITS 'WHE GAY NARCISSISM'

"Like his victims, who were bisexual and gay, Rogers is a gay man, per his trial ’s book go over some of his bgraphil tails: Rogers was the elst of five children born to a fay Plymouth, had had n-s wh the law before for siarly morbid allegatns. A total of four murrs were brought up at his trial, but he was only charged Thomas Mulhy and Anthony Marrero’s four victims were middle-aged, gay or bisexual men, last seen at gay bars Manhattan.

In July 1993, Michael Sakara, a gay man his 50s, left Five Oaks Piano Bar, where he was a regular, wh Rogers and was never seen the killgs, evince prented durg Rogers’ trial stated that he stopped visg the bars.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WH THE 'LAST CALL' KILLER WHO TERRORIZED NYC'S GAY NIGHTSPOTS 1980S AND '90S?

” Rogers echoed those sentiments, quippg: “I’m out there beg a full gay man on that beach, and that wh s maladi and succs. “The tth is [the village of] the P was very closeted and origally envisned as a straight muny, ” she ’d also like her podst to help dismantle the stereotype of Fire Island beg a haven strictly for whe cisgenr gay men, notg: “The tth is, is filled wh women and trans folks, particularly [the village of] Cherry Grove.

AARON RODGERS POSSIBLY BEG GAY ISN’T A JOKE

Are played out the ty, remote gay muni as well, ” Rothschild said. Rogers Jr., monly known as the “Last Call Killer, ” over the serial killgs of gay and bisexual men the early 1990s.

Based on thor Elon Green’s 2021 nonfictn book Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York, the seri vers the three-year perd the 1990s which four gay men disappeared om Manhattan gay bars, wh their dismembered bodi later disvered near highways New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. A four-part seri, Last Call chronicl the search for the killer through terviews wh vtigators, victims’ partners, and LGBTQ activists who lled for a stronger police rponse to the crease hate crim agast the gay muny.

GAY ROGERS

The event was held at the home of Robert Browne, a Manhattan real tate agent and gay rights activist, acrdg to a 1991 Inquirer report. Anrson later went to the Townhoe, a gay bar on the East Si, and wasn’t seen alive dismembered body was found a 55-gallon trash barrel near the Lanster ex on the wtbound Pennsylvania Turnpike on May 5, 1991. ”The Gay and Lbian Communy Center later announced a $1, 000 reward for help solvg the se.

Dcribed Inquirer reportg as a gay sex worker, Marrero was last seen at the New York Port Authory b termal early dismembered remas were found days later six plastic bags on Crow Hill Road Manchter Township, Ocean County. A typetter om Philalphia livg New York, Sakara was an openly gay man who was last seen alive at the Five Oaks bar Greenwich Village on July 30, followg day, a man found luggage wh Sakara’s belonggs at an overlook on New York’s Haverstraw Bay, and took the ems to police. Rogers, who is also gay, had been a registered nurse at Mount Sai Medil Center for more than two s.