What Really Happened Wh the 'Last Call' Killer Who Terrorized NYC's Gay Nightspots 1980s and '90s? - A&E Te Crime

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• THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.
• MNEAPOLIS MURRS 1990S TARGETED GAYS
• ‘VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY’ WILL ACTUALLY BE ABOUT BEG GAY THE ’90SFIRST LOOKAT A SCREENG OF THE PREMIERE—’S FABULO—RYAN MURPHY AND HIS ST PREVIEW CULTURAL THEM ‘THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE’ WILL EXPLORE, CLUDG GAY SHAME THE ’90S.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED DEC. 12, 2017 8:06PM EST / PUBLISHED DEC. 12, 2017 4:25PM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/FXTHE PREMIERE EPISO OF THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY BOASTS STYLE EXACTLY THE GRAND SLE YOU’D EXPECT OM A TV SERI ASSOCIATED WH THE DOOMED FASHN IN.THE MERA TURNS S LENS ON THE OSTENTAT OPULENCE OF VERSACE’S MIAMI BEACH MANSN ALMOST AS A FETISH. THE FASHN IS AS LATE-’90S GLAMORO AND NT AS IS GARISH AND TACKY. SEX OOZ EVERYWHERE, OM THE SWEAT OF THE SOUTH FLORIDA BEACH SETTG TO THE LGERG GAZE ON STAR DARREN CRISS’ EXCEPTNALLY SCULPTED (BRIEFLY NU) BODY.A HYPNOTIZG, WORDLS FIRST ACT, BACKED BY A ROG STRG-HEAVY SRE, GIV A SHAKPEAREAN START TO THE WHOLE ENAVOR, ECHOED, OF URSE, THE HORROR OF THE MURR BY GUNSHOT THAT LEFT VERSACE BLEEDG TO ATH AT THE ONT GATE OF HIS HOME 1997.AND JT WA FOR PENELOPE CZ’S ENTRANCE AS DONATELLA VERSACE, AN UNVEILG DRIPPG WH ENOUGH MELODRAMA AND HIGH FASHN TO MAKE YOU GASP. THE OSR-WNER, DONNG WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN UPPER LIP PROSTHETIC TO AID NAILG DONATELLA’S ALMOST CIPHERABLE ITALIAN ACCENT, IS PERFECT—AS IS THE PILOT, WHICH THRILLS AS MUCH S VISUALS AND SENSUALY AS DO THE GRAPHIC NATURE OF S TULAR CRIME AND ENSUG MANHUNT. ONLY THE FIRST EPISO OF FX’S NEWT STALLMENT OF S AMERIN CRIME STORY ANCHISE, THE FIRST FOLLOW-UP TO S AWARDS-GUZZLG PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON SEASON, SCREENED MONDAY NIGHT, FOR A ROOM PACKED WH CUR CELEBRY FANS CLUDG GLENN CLOSE, PATRICIA CLARKSON, AND ANDREW RANNELLS. THAT’S NOT ENOUGH FOR A PROPER REVIEW OF THE NEW SERI, WHICH OFFICIALLY PREMIER JAN. 17. BUT CREATOR RYAN MURPHY, THE PRODUCERS AND WRERS, AND STARS CRISS, EDGAR RAMIREZ, AND RICKY MART WERE ON HAND TO TEASE THE SEASON AND S PERHAPS SURPRISG GREATER MSAGE.MORE THAN A MURR MYSTERY OR A LAVISH LOOK AT THE LIFE OF A FASHN LEGEND, VERSACE WILL TACKLE WHAT WAS LIKE TO BE GAY THE 1990S. “LIKE O.J., THE THEM WE’RE TACKLG THIS SHOW SEEM SO MORN TO ME,” MURPHY SAID, REFERRG TO HOW THE AMERIN CRIME STORY FOUND RENEWED RONANCE THE INTY POLICS, RACE AND CLASS BIAS, MEDIA CIRC, AND MISOGYNY SURROUNDG THE O.J. SIMPSON TRIAL. “THEY DON’T SEEM LIKE THEY’RE OZEN AMBER,” HE NTUED. “THEY FEEL VERY ALIVE AND PLUCKED OM TODAY’S HEADL.” THE VERSACE SEASON IS HEAVILY BASED ON JOURNALIST MREEN ORTH’S BOOK VULGAR FAVORS: THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE.ORTH HAD BEEN VTIGATG SERIAL KILLER ANDREW CUNANAN (PLAYED BY CRISS THE SERI) FOR MONTHS BEFORE HE MURRED GIANNI VERSACE (RAMIREZ) ON THE STEPS OF HIS MIAMI BEACH MANSN WHILE VERSACE’S PARTNER (MART) WAS SI. CUNANAN HAD EVAD POLICE WHILE SUCCSFULLY MURRG FIVE MEN THAT HE KNEW, THE LAST BEG VERSACE. ORTH’S REPORTG REVEALED A HIGHLY TELLIGENT SOCPATH—HE ONCE TTED AT 147 FOR HIS IQ—WH TORTURED FEELGS ABOUT BEG GAY, AND PERHAPS EVEN JEALOY THAT HE HAD ALL THE GIFTS AND PROMISE YET SOMEHOW WASN’T SUCCEEDG THE SAME WAY AS THE OTHER MEN.“WE DIDN’T UNRSTAND, AND YOU’LL SEE AS THE SHOW GO ON, THAT VERSACE WAS THE LAST VICTIM, AND ANDREW HAD KILLED PEOPLE THAT HE KNEW BEFORE THIS,” EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BRAD SIMPSON SAID. “AS WE BEGAN TO UNPACK THE SHOW, WE REALIZED THIS WAS ABOUT THE POLICS OF BEG OUT THE 1990S.”MURPHY REVEALED THAT THE SEASON WILL BE TELLG THE STORY BACKWARDS. THE FIRST AND SEND EPISOS AL WH THE ASSASSATN OF VERSACE AND THE MANHUNT FOR CUNANAN MIAMI, AND THEN THE SERI WILL HEAD BACK TIME SO THAT, BY EPISO 8, WE ARE SEEG CUNANAN AS A CHILD. THEN THE FAL EPISO WILL AL WH HIS EVENTUAL MISE.BROAD CULTURAL THEM WILL OF URSE BE EXPLORED ALONG THE WAY. SAID EXECUTIVE PRODUCER NA JABSEN, “I THK WHAT WE REALIZED DURG THE FIRST SEASON IS THAT WE WANTED EVERY SEASON OF THE SHOW TO ULTIMATELY BE ABOUT A CRIME THAT AMERI FEELS GUILTY OF, AND FD A WAY TO SORT OF EXPLORE WHAT IS A CULTURAL CRIME AS WELL AS A SPECIFIC CRIME, OR THIS SE A SERI OF CRIM. IN THIS SE, TO TRY TO EXPLORE AND RE-NJURE WHAT WAS TO BE GAY THE ’90S.”ORTH EXPLAED THAT CUNANAN WAS OM SAN DIEGO, A BIG ARY TOWN, GROWG UP WHILE “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” WAS THE NEWS, WHICH CREATED AGONY FOR PEOPLE WHO WERE NFLICTED OVER HOW THEY FELT ABOUT BEG GAY, WHETHER THEY ULD EXPRS THEMSELV, OR WHETHER THEY ULD BE PUBLICLY OUT. THE PARENTS OF TWO OF CUNANAN’S VICTIMS DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THEIR SONS WERE GAY UNTIL AFTER THEY WERE MURRED, FOR A SENSE OF THE ENVIRONMENT.EQUALLY FASCATG WAS THE PETENCY OF THE POLICE AND VTIGATORS PURSUG CUNANAN, WHO STGGLED WH FILTRATG THE GAY MUNY AND UNRSTANDG S NUANC, SOMETHG ORTH SAID DIDN’T NECSARILY REFLECT A HOMOPHOBIA, PER SE, BUT AN IGNORANCE.THEN OF URSE THERE’S THE EVER-RONANT IA OF FAME, AND THE CRAVEN PURSU OF THAT IS VERY MUCH EMBEDD THE FABRIC OF TODAY’S CULTURE.“I THK THE IA THAT [CUNANAN] WAS WILLG TO KILL FOR FAME, THERE WAS KD OF A TRAJECTORY BETWEEN THAT AND GETTG FAMO THROUGH A SEX TAPE LIKE THE KARDASHIANS AND THEN RIGHT DOWN TO BEG THE PRINT OF THE UNED STAT BEE YOU WERE A REALY TV STAR,” ORTH SAID.MURPHY SAID THAT EACH ACTOR THEY ST WAS ACTUALLY THEIR FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY THE ROL, OM CZ AS DONATELLA DOWN TO MART’S REVELATORY DRAMATIC TURN. “I HAVE A THEORY THAT EVERY SGER IS A GREAT DRAMATIC ACTOR WAG TO E TO OUT,” MURPHY SAID ABOUT THE MIC SUPERSTAR.MART, WHO SPENDS MUCH OF THE FIRST EPISO SHAKEN AND TEARS AFTER DISVERG VERSACE’S BODY, EXPLAED THAT HE ACTUALLY GOT TO SPEND SEVERAL HOURS OF QUALY TIME WH ANTON D’AMI, THE SIGNER’S PARTNER OF 15 YEARS, WHO ALSO HELPED CURATE THE ROSTER OF BOYS THEY WOULD ALSO BE TIMATE WH. “EVERY TIME I SEE THIS EPISO I’M JT REALLY MOVED,” HE SAID.MURPHY FIRST DANGLED THE IA OF PLAYG CUNANAN ONT OF CRISS, WHOM HE HAD WORKED WH ON GLEE THREE YEARS AGO, GOG SO FAR AS TO LL THE ROLE OF THE YOUNG ACTOR’S REER.THERE’S AN UNNNY REMBLANCE BETWEEN CRISS AND THE REAL-LIFE CUNANAN, DOWN TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE BOTH PART FILIPO. WH JT THE FIRST HOUR TO JUDGE BY, CRISS IS EXTREMELY WATCHABLE A PLITED AND POTENTIALLY OFF-PUTTG ROLE: A SOCPATHIC NARCISSIST, WHOSE GAY SELF-LOATHG MANIFTS AN UNSETTLG VLENT STREAK.“I THK STORI THAT BEND PEOPLE’S SENSE OF EMPATHY ARE WHAT REALLY TERT ME,” CRISS SAID. “IT’S SHAKPEAREAN. IS HAS THIS VERY OPERATIC FEEL. IT’S GREEK SLE. I’M A GOOD, OLD FASHNED ACTG STUNT. PUT ME A GREEK TRAGEDY OR A SHAKPEARE PLAY. IF I GET TO DO THAT ON FX WH RYAN MURPHY, THEN FUCK YEAH, LET’S DO .”FOR ALL THE TALK OF BROAR THEM, THERE’S ONE SPECIFIC TAIL THAT MURPHY WANTED TO DRIVE HOME: THE UNUAL EXPERIENCE OF FILMG THE SERI VERSACE’S ACTUAL MIAMI BEACH MANSN. THAT MEANT ACTUALLY RECREATG HIS ASSASSATN WHERE REALLY HAPPENED, ONT OF THE HOE THAT VERSACE CURATED EVERY TAIL OF, WHICH STILL EMANAT HIS SOUL AND PASSN. IT “WAS ONE OF THE MOST EMOTNAL, PROFOUND, MOVG, EXPERIENC,” MURPHY SAID. “THE DAY WE SHOT THAT THE CREW WAS CRYG. THE ACTORS WERE CRYG. IT WAS VERY TENSE.”IT WASN’T JT THAT DAY, BUT THE ENTIRE EXPERIENCE THAT WAS EMOTNAL FOR RAMIREZ, WHO SPENT MONTHS CHANNELG VERSACE AND LIVG WH HIS UNNECSARY ATH—AND WHAT THAT ATH SAID ABOUT THE VALUE OF A CERTA MOGRAPHIC’S LIFE AT THAT TIME THE U.S.“ME LIVG VENEZUELA, I KNEW ABOUT ANDREW CUNANAN,” RAMIREZ SAID. “HE WAS ON THE NEWS MY UNTRY. [I’M DISTURBED BY] THE FACT THAT TOOK SO LONG TO GET HIM, BEE APPARENTLY HE WASN’T A THREAT TO SOCIETY BEE HE WAS KILLG GAY MEN. I FEEL VERY PROUD TO BE PART OF A PROJECT THAT TALKS ABOUT LOVE AND FAY BUT AT THE SAME TIME, HOPEFULLY MAK SOMETHG LIGHT OUT OF SOMETHG SO DARK.” KEV FALLON
• WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WH THE 'LAST CALL' KILLER WHO TERRORIZED NYC'S GAY NIGHTSPOTS 1980S AND '90S?
• GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS

THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.

Both victims — olr, whe-llar profsnal men, wh the heterosexual vtments of marriag and children — had last been seen at an upsle Midtown Manhattan gay piano bar lled the begs Elon Green’s terrific, harrowg, te-crime acunt of an elive serial killer who preyed upon gay men the 1990s, perfidly turng the safe havens of gay bars to huntg grounds, and semi-anonymo late-night hookups to an opportuny to kill wh impuny. The most prolific serial killers explo the vulnerabili of the social orr; the “Last Call Killer” took advantage of gay men’s need for discretn and the enmic homophobia of law enforcement. Here was a generatn of men, more or ls, for whom was difficult to be visibly gay.

Closeted gay people do, of urse, lead rich, satisfyg existenc, even if they leave fewer trac. Gay men prsured to hi their sexualy at the height of the AIDS epimic are particularly sceptible to all-nsumg tragic seems to anticipate this journalistic nundm. Wh great passn, he wins his spe to explore the social value of gay bars to the queer muny and the val work of grass-roots groups like the New York Cy Anti-Vlence Project, which fought for fair treatment for gay crime victims durg a perd when they were often treated like reer crimals.

Homophobic hate crim and gay bashg surged Mneapolis the late 1980s and early ’90s. After six months of heightened fear and ictn between ps and the gay muny, Mneapolis police fally poted to a prime spect for the two random murrs the sry summer of ’91.

MNEAPOLIS MURRS 1990S TARGETED GAYS

Pl Pneer Prs, KSTP-TV and gay advocy groups, ntaed tails only the killer uld know — cludg the. The letter wrer went on to offer a warped explanatn, hollow apology and vlent threat, sayg that the killgs were an attempt to slow the spread of AIDS by shuttg down areas popular among gays.

He said he was sorry people had to be hurt to “send a msage to the promiscuo, filthy gay muny ….

‘VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY’ WILL ACTUALLY BE ABOUT BEG GAY THE ’90SFIRST LOOKAT A SCREENG OF THE PREMIERE—’S FABULO—RYAN MURPHY AND HIS ST PREVIEW CULTURAL THEM ‘THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE’ WILL EXPLORE, CLUDG GAY SHAME THE ’90S.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED DEC. 12, 2017 8:06PM EST / PUBLISHED DEC. 12, 2017 4:25PM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/FXTHE PREMIERE EPISO OF THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY BOASTS STYLE EXACTLY THE GRAND SLE YOU’D EXPECT OM A TV SERI ASSOCIATED WH THE DOOMED FASHN IN.THE MERA TURNS S LENS ON THE OSTENTAT OPULENCE OF VERSACE’S MIAMI BEACH MANSN ALMOST AS A FETISH. THE FASHN IS AS LATE-’90S GLAMORO AND NT AS IS GARISH AND TACKY. SEX OOZ EVERYWHERE, OM THE SWEAT OF THE SOUTH FLORIDA BEACH SETTG TO THE LGERG GAZE ON STAR DARREN CRISS’ EXCEPTNALLY SCULPTED (BRIEFLY NU) BODY.A HYPNOTIZG, WORDLS FIRST ACT, BACKED BY A ROG STRG-HEAVY SRE, GIV A SHAKPEAREAN START TO THE WHOLE ENAVOR, ECHOED, OF URSE, THE HORROR OF THE MURR BY GUNSHOT THAT LEFT VERSACE BLEEDG TO ATH AT THE ONT GATE OF HIS HOME 1997.AND JT WA FOR PENELOPE CZ’S ENTRANCE AS DONATELLA VERSACE, AN UNVEILG DRIPPG WH ENOUGH MELODRAMA AND HIGH FASHN TO MAKE YOU GASP. THE OSR-WNER, DONNG WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN UPPER LIP PROSTHETIC TO AID NAILG DONATELLA’S ALMOST CIPHERABLE ITALIAN ACCENT, IS PERFECT—AS IS THE PILOT, WHICH THRILLS AS MUCH S VISUALS AND SENSUALY AS DO THE GRAPHIC NATURE OF S TULAR CRIME AND ENSUG MANHUNT. ONLY THE FIRST EPISO OF FX’S NEWT STALLMENT OF S AMERIN CRIME STORY ANCHISE, THE FIRST FOLLOW-UP TO S AWARDS-GUZZLG PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON SEASON, SCREENED MONDAY NIGHT, FOR A ROOM PACKED WH CUR CELEBRY FANS CLUDG GLENN CLOSE, PATRICIA CLARKSON, AND ANDREW RANNELLS. THAT’S NOT ENOUGH FOR A PROPER REVIEW OF THE NEW SERI, WHICH OFFICIALLY PREMIER JAN. 17. BUT CREATOR RYAN MURPHY, THE PRODUCERS AND WRERS, AND STARS CRISS, EDGAR RAMIREZ, AND RICKY MART WERE ON HAND TO TEASE THE SEASON AND S PERHAPS SURPRISG GREATER MSAGE.MORE THAN A MURR MYSTERY OR A LAVISH LOOK AT THE LIFE OF A FASHN LEGEND, VERSACE WILL TACKLE WHAT WAS LIKE TO BE GAY THE 1990S. “LIKE O.J., THE THEM WE’RE TACKLG THIS SHOW SEEM SO MORN TO ME,” MURPHY SAID, REFERRG TO HOW THE AMERIN CRIME STORY FOUND RENEWED RONANCE THE INTY POLICS, RACE AND CLASS BIAS, MEDIA CIRC, AND MISOGYNY SURROUNDG THE O.J. SIMPSON TRIAL. “THEY DON’T SEEM LIKE THEY’RE OZEN AMBER,” HE NTUED. “THEY FEEL VERY ALIVE AND PLUCKED OM TODAY’S HEADL.” THE VERSACE SEASON IS HEAVILY BASED ON JOURNALIST MREEN ORTH’S BOOK VULGAR FAVORS: THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE.ORTH HAD BEEN VTIGATG SERIAL KILLER ANDREW CUNANAN (PLAYED BY CRISS THE SERI) FOR MONTHS BEFORE HE MURRED GIANNI VERSACE (RAMIREZ) ON THE STEPS OF HIS MIAMI BEACH MANSN WHILE VERSACE’S PARTNER (MART) WAS SI. CUNANAN HAD EVAD POLICE WHILE SUCCSFULLY MURRG FIVE MEN THAT HE KNEW, THE LAST BEG VERSACE. ORTH’S REPORTG REVEALED A HIGHLY TELLIGENT SOCPATH—HE ONCE TTED AT 147 FOR HIS IQ—WH TORTURED FEELGS ABOUT BEG GAY, AND PERHAPS EVEN JEALOY THAT HE HAD ALL THE GIFTS AND PROMISE YET SOMEHOW WASN’T SUCCEEDG THE SAME WAY AS THE OTHER MEN.“WE DIDN’T UNRSTAND, AND YOU’LL SEE AS THE SHOW GO ON, THAT VERSACE WAS THE LAST VICTIM, AND ANDREW HAD KILLED PEOPLE THAT HE KNEW BEFORE THIS,” EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BRAD SIMPSON SAID. “AS WE BEGAN TO UNPACK THE SHOW, WE REALIZED THIS WAS ABOUT THE POLICS OF BEG OUT THE 1990S.”MURPHY REVEALED THAT THE SEASON WILL BE TELLG THE STORY BACKWARDS. THE FIRST AND SEND EPISOS AL WH THE ASSASSATN OF VERSACE AND THE MANHUNT FOR CUNANAN MIAMI, AND THEN THE SERI WILL HEAD BACK TIME SO THAT, BY EPISO 8, WE ARE SEEG CUNANAN AS A CHILD. THEN THE FAL EPISO WILL AL WH HIS EVENTUAL MISE.BROAD CULTURAL THEM WILL OF URSE BE EXPLORED ALONG THE WAY. SAID EXECUTIVE PRODUCER NA JABSEN, “I THK WHAT WE REALIZED DURG THE FIRST SEASON IS THAT WE WANTED EVERY SEASON OF THE SHOW TO ULTIMATELY BE ABOUT A CRIME THAT AMERI FEELS GUILTY OF, AND FD A WAY TO SORT OF EXPLORE WHAT IS A CULTURAL CRIME AS WELL AS A SPECIFIC CRIME, OR THIS SE A SERI OF CRIM. IN THIS SE, TO TRY TO EXPLORE AND RE-NJURE WHAT WAS TO BE GAY THE ’90S.”ORTH EXPLAED THAT CUNANAN WAS OM SAN DIEGO, A BIG ARY TOWN, GROWG UP WHILE “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” WAS THE NEWS, WHICH CREATED AGONY FOR PEOPLE WHO WERE NFLICTED OVER HOW THEY FELT ABOUT BEG GAY, WHETHER THEY ULD EXPRS THEMSELV, OR WHETHER THEY ULD BE PUBLICLY OUT. THE PARENTS OF TWO OF CUNANAN’S VICTIMS DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THEIR SONS WERE GAY UNTIL AFTER THEY WERE MURRED, FOR A SENSE OF THE ENVIRONMENT.EQUALLY FASCATG WAS THE PETENCY OF THE POLICE AND VTIGATORS PURSUG CUNANAN, WHO STGGLED WH FILTRATG THE GAY MUNY AND UNRSTANDG S NUANC, SOMETHG ORTH SAID DIDN’T NECSARILY REFLECT A HOMOPHOBIA, PER SE, BUT AN IGNORANCE.THEN OF URSE THERE’S THE EVER-RONANT IA OF FAME, AND THE CRAVEN PURSU OF THAT IS VERY MUCH EMBEDD THE FABRIC OF TODAY’S CULTURE.“I THK THE IA THAT [CUNANAN] WAS WILLG TO KILL FOR FAME, THERE WAS KD OF A TRAJECTORY BETWEEN THAT AND GETTG FAMO THROUGH A SEX TAPE LIKE THE KARDASHIANS AND THEN RIGHT DOWN TO BEG THE PRINT OF THE UNED STAT BEE YOU WERE A REALY TV STAR,” ORTH SAID.MURPHY SAID THAT EACH ACTOR THEY ST WAS ACTUALLY THEIR FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY THE ROL, OM CZ AS DONATELLA DOWN TO MART’S REVELATORY DRAMATIC TURN. “I HAVE A THEORY THAT EVERY SGER IS A GREAT DRAMATIC ACTOR WAG TO E TO OUT,” MURPHY SAID ABOUT THE MIC SUPERSTAR.MART, WHO SPENDS MUCH OF THE FIRST EPISO SHAKEN AND TEARS AFTER DISVERG VERSACE’S BODY, EXPLAED THAT HE ACTUALLY GOT TO SPEND SEVERAL HOURS OF QUALY TIME WH ANTON D’AMI, THE SIGNER’S PARTNER OF 15 YEARS, WHO ALSO HELPED CURATE THE ROSTER OF BOYS THEY WOULD ALSO BE TIMATE WH. “EVERY TIME I SEE THIS EPISO I’M JT REALLY MOVED,” HE SAID.MURPHY FIRST DANGLED THE IA OF PLAYG CUNANAN ONT OF CRISS, WHOM HE HAD WORKED WH ON GLEE THREE YEARS AGO, GOG SO FAR AS TO LL THE ROLE OF THE YOUNG ACTOR’S REER.THERE’S AN UNNNY REMBLANCE BETWEEN CRISS AND THE REAL-LIFE CUNANAN, DOWN TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE BOTH PART FILIPO. WH JT THE FIRST HOUR TO JUDGE BY, CRISS IS EXTREMELY WATCHABLE A PLITED AND POTENTIALLY OFF-PUTTG ROLE: A SOCPATHIC NARCISSIST, WHOSE GAY SELF-LOATHG MANIFTS AN UNSETTLG VLENT STREAK.“I THK STORI THAT BEND PEOPLE’S SENSE OF EMPATHY ARE WHAT REALLY TERT ME,” CRISS SAID. “IT’S SHAKPEAREAN. IS HAS THIS VERY OPERATIC FEEL. IT’S GREEK SLE. I’M A GOOD, OLD FASHNED ACTG STUNT. PUT ME A GREEK TRAGEDY OR A SHAKPEARE PLAY. IF I GET TO DO THAT ON FX WH RYAN MURPHY, THEN FUCK YEAH, LET’S DO .”FOR ALL THE TALK OF BROAR THEM, THERE’S ONE SPECIFIC TAIL THAT MURPHY WANTED TO DRIVE HOME: THE UNUAL EXPERIENCE OF FILMG THE SERI VERSACE’S ACTUAL MIAMI BEACH MANSN. THAT MEANT ACTUALLY RECREATG HIS ASSASSATN WHERE REALLY HAPPENED, ONT OF THE HOE THAT VERSACE CURATED EVERY TAIL OF, WHICH STILL EMANAT HIS SOUL AND PASSN. IT “WAS ONE OF THE MOST EMOTNAL, PROFOUND, MOVG, EXPERIENC,” MURPHY SAID. “THE DAY WE SHOT THAT THE CREW WAS CRYG. THE ACTORS WERE CRYG. IT WAS VERY TENSE.”IT WASN’T JT THAT DAY, BUT THE ENTIRE EXPERIENCE THAT WAS EMOTNAL FOR RAMIREZ, WHO SPENT MONTHS CHANNELG VERSACE AND LIVG WH HIS UNNECSARY ATH—AND WHAT THAT ATH SAID ABOUT THE VALUE OF A CERTA MOGRAPHIC’S LIFE AT THAT TIME THE U.S.“ME LIVG VENEZUELA, I KNEW ABOUT ANDREW CUNANAN,” RAMIREZ SAID. “HE WAS ON THE NEWS MY UNTRY. [I’M DISTURBED BY] THE FACT THAT TOOK SO LONG TO GET HIM, BEE APPARENTLY HE WASN’T A THREAT TO SOCIETY BEE HE WAS KILLG GAY MEN. I FEEL VERY PROUD TO BE PART OF A PROJECT THAT TALKS ABOUT LOVE AND FAY BUT AT THE SAME TIME, HOPEFULLY MAK SOMETHG LIGHT OUT OF SOMETHG SO DARK.” KEV FALLON

“The rather obv purpose of this letter is to advise members of the gay muny to avoid public plac, ” the letter warned, braggg: “You’ll never tch . Two follow-up phone lls to the Gay and Lbian Communy Actn Council ultimately brought Johnson down. Vio posted onle shows the chaotic scene unfold outsi The Gay 90s bar on Saturday night where girls were filmed twerkg on top of rs and yellg at a police horse as an officer tried to break up a fight volvg a group of men.

' Vio posted onle shows a group of men assltg a victim the street outsi a gay bar As the victim tried to get up, one of the men kicked him the face Saturday night Another scene shows women cursg out a police horse after officers tried to dissemble a fightThe altertn me amid other scen of bchery outsi the bar Saturday night, wh one man clearly beg asslted as the shockg footage begs. 'It was also pletely chaotic outsi the Gay 90s; there have been multiple shootgs near there the last few months alone. ' The asslt victim was seen Saturday night lyg the middle of the road as his attackers walked back to the bar Another fight broke out between a group of women outsi the Gay 90s bar Women were also filmed twerkg on top of rs that blocked traffic outsi the club EMS crews brought the asslt victim to an ambulance Saturday nightThe vio as crime the cy ntu to spiral out of ntrol the wake of the Defund the Police movement.

From there, he murred five more gay men along Interstate 95, Maryland, Geia, Atlanta, and one of his crime scen, Bowl left a probatn document, and he was ught on surveillance mera takg money out of the victim's acunt.

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

But creator Ryan Murphy, the producers and wrers, and stars Criss, Edgar Ramirez, and Ricky Mart were on hand to tease the season and s perhaps surprisg greater than a murr mystery or a lavish look at the life of a fashn legend, Versace will tackle what was like to be gay the 1990s. Orth’s reportg revealed a highly telligent socpath—he once tted at 147 for his IQ—wh tortured feelgs about beg gay, and perhaps even jealoy that he had all the gifts and promise yet somehow wasn’t succeedg the same way as the other men. In this se, to try to explore and re-njure what was to be gay the ’90s.

”Orth explaed that Cunanan was om San Diego, a big ary town, growg up while “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was the news, which created agony for people who were nflicted over how they felt about beg gay, whether they uld exprs themselv, or whether they uld be publicly out. The parents of two of Cunanan’s victims didn’t even know their sons were gay until after they were murred, for a sense of the environment. Equally fascatg was the petency of the police and vtigators pursug Cunanan, who stggled wh filtratg the gay muny and unrstandg s nuanc, somethg Orth said didn’t necsarily reflect a homophobia, per se, but an of urse there’s the ever-ronant ia of fame, and the craven pursu of that is very much embedd the fabric of today’s culture.

GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS

Wh jt the first hour to judge by, Criss is extremely watchable a plited and potentially off-puttg role: a socpathic narcissist, whose gay self-loathg manifts an unsettlg vlent streak.

[I’m disturbed by] the fact that took so long to get him, bee apparently he wasn’t a threat to society bee he was killg gay men. If there’s one thg we know how to do at The gay 90s, ’s celebrate. Somethg old, somethg new, somethg you’ve never experienced before: End your sgle days style wh drks and champagne at the Gay90s.