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Contents:

• STEPHEN MERCHANT HS OUT AT POLICE AFTER PLAYG GAY SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT FOUR LIV
• SERIAL KILLER DUBBED 'THE PHER' IS KILLG CY'S GAY MEN BY PHG THEM TO NALS, SAYS THOR
• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
• THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.
• ‘RIGHTEO ANGER WAS A PART OF ’: THE SHOCKG STORY OF NEW YORK’S GAY BAR KILLER

STEPHEN MERCHANT HS OUT AT POLICE AFTER PLAYG GAY SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT FOUR LIV

Te Crime We Bged 2022For gay New Yorkers 1991, there were still plenty of reasons to not put much fah law enforcement. Jt 22 years after clash wh police outsi the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village opened a promisg new ont the ongog fight for LGBTQ+ rights, AIDS was cimatg the queer muny and hate crim were on the rise, no small part due to the tragilly wispread misperceptn of the vis as a gay disease and lack of unrstandg about how was transmted. And another nightmarish turn of events, someone was g NYC's vibrant gay nightlife scene as a huntg ground.

SERIAL KILLER DUBBED 'THE PHER' IS KILLG CY'S GAY MEN BY PHG THEM TO NALS, SAYS THOR

Last Call: When a Killer Stalked Queer New York, a four-part HBO seri premierg July 9, lv to the grisly murrs and a not-so-distant past when blatant homophobia was still the norm and queer bars, as one activist puts the show, "were one of the few plac the muny where we uld e and feel safe.

"And even then, adds Bea Hanson, who served as a liaison between the NYC Gay & Lbian Anti-Vlence Project and police, "There was always this sort of 'you've got to watch your back at the same time too' sort of feelg. Tony Brooks, a 26-year-old ndidate for cy uncil at the time, told police he and Anrson had gone to Manhattan together the night of May 3 to attend a fundraiser at the Central Park Wt home of Robert Browne, a proment gay rights activist. One wasn't gay.

LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

One was not a homosexual. "In hdsight, " he says, "maybe  would've been a good ia to follow up wh the that time, we didn't know was a gay bar. I don't know anythg about where all the gay bars New York are.

"Sometim he went for male pannship, " rells former New Jersey State Police Detective Nick Theodos, who not the seri that Mulhy's murr was the first se that brought him to close ntact wh the gay muny. "The homosexual muny wasn't very open about what they were dog their private liv, " he said. Sakara, an openly gay 56-year-old who equented the Five Oaks piano bar the Wt Village, where he was last seen alive on July 30, 1993, acrdg to vtigators.

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

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Accsibily LksSkip to ntentFriday Augt 18 2023 Stephen Merchant has revealed how rearchg his latt role as the serial killer Stephen Port forced him to terrogate onscreen portrayals of “brilliantly clever” police -creator of The Office said that he had been eply upset to learn how long took the Metropolan Police to arrt Port, who dgged, raped and murred four young gay men between June 2014 and September 2015 and dumped their bodi near his flat Barkg, east this time Port was arrted, bailed, nvicted and jailed for lyg to the police about how he knew the first man but the aths were treated as dg overdos, rather than murrs, until the fourth body was found. Sometim known as liquid ecstasy, Ga or G, the dg is popular the gay chemsex scene. Rey mak drk potn of gay love haha … Take a sip of my secret poison, I’ll make you fall love.

‘RIGHTEO ANGER WAS A PART OF ’: THE SHOCKG STORY OF NEW YORK’S GAY BAR KILLER

Reynhard Saga graphicHe kept souvenirs to remember his crim – passports, watch, bank rds and drivg licenc – and often took screenshots of his victims’ Facebook profil to create what the prosecutor, Ia Simk QC, likened to a “Top Tmps” evince the first and last of his four trials, Saga scribed himself as an “effemate gay man” and claimed he was perceived as a “ladyboy” by his “sexually cur” victims. They were lyg urt, Saga suggted, bee “ is not an easy thg to e out as gay”, and “ternalised homophobia” remas wispread.

After the victim left the flat, embarrassed at imposg on a stranger, Saga texted a iend to boast that he had had his first sexual terurse of the year wh a man who was not gay. 2015 is his breakthrough to the gay world hahaha.

“Tellgly, you may thk, there was never any nversatn ncerng the eight stanc of sexual activy which had already taken place that morng, nor was there any mentn of the fendant rerdg any sexual acts, ” Simk told the jury the send was well known Manchter’s Gay Village and people who regularly saw him at clubs were shocked when he was arrted. Photograph: FacebookWhen word began to spread Manchter’s Gay Village that Saga had been arrted, there was wispread crly that the slight, cheerful man they often saw out dancg and gigglg uld be pable of such acts. He had an extreme behavur [ rponse] to rejectn, if that’s the right term for , ” she was nstantly chattg to men on the gay datg apps Grdr and Hor, and was very active on Facebook and Instagram.