QUEER CRIME: How Homophobia Helped 4 Gay Serial Killers Contue To Kill   | IN Magaze

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• QUEER CRIME: HOW HOMOPHOBIA HELPED 4 GAY SERIAL KILLERS CONTUE TO KILL
• THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.
• SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE
• KGOV'S LIST OF GAY MASS MURRERS

QUEER CRIME: HOW HOMOPHOBIA HELPED 4 GAY SERIAL KILLERS CONTUE TO KILL

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.

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

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. 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 .

SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE

This list is tend for reference purpos only and do not imply a al relatnship between homosexualy and serial killg. Although the proportn of serial killers who are known to have had homosexual experience is high (over 43%), the total number of serial killers is too small to make statistilly relevant statements about whether homosexuals are over- or unr-reprented among serial killers. Also, should be noted that many of the homosexual serial killers on this list were not active members of the Gay & Lbian cultural muny.

) were homosexuals, but they beme wily known due to the nature of their crim or the inti of their victims, not bee they any way reprent serial killers generally. Given that ls than 2% of adults are homosexuals (pl 1 to 2% who are bisexual), there would not need to be very many homosexuals among the total number of serial killers for them to be over-reprented. But wh such small overall numbers, and wh no universally agreed upon fn of a homosexual, would be impossible to terme the relative equency of homosexuals among serial killers.

KGOV'S LIST OF GAY MASS MURRERS

Their actual inty would then be argued about by var blogists, gay wrers, and others, who would classify their stat as a variant of homosexualy, a distct classifitn, or reprsed homosexuals.

Suffice say, all of the dividuals listed here as “homosexual serial killers” n be classified as homosexual as the term is generally ed. Homosexual serial killers have most equently chosen young boys or gay men as their victims, although some have victimized femal as well.