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• RICKY MART ON PLAYG HIS FIRST GAY CHARACTER THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE
• VERSACE: WATCH JEFF TRAIL’S REAL-LIFE INTERVIEW ABOUT BEG GAY THE MILARY“HE CHOSE TO SPEAK TO BEE HE THOUGHT WAS THE RIGHT THG TO DO,” SAID 48 HOURS REPORTER RICHARD SCHLGER.BY JULIE MILLER AND JOANNA ROBSONFEBARY 14, 2018FN WTROCK AS JEFEY TRAIL AMERIN CRIME STORY: THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE.BY RAY MICKSHAW/FX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWEDNDAY NIGHT’S EPISO OF THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY FEATUR TWO VERY DIFFERENT G-OUT SCEN. IN ONE, SET 1995, GIANNI VERSACE OPENLY DISCS HIS SEXUALY WH A REPORTER OM THE ADVOTE, EVEN TRODUCG HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND, ANTON D’AMI, DURG THE TERVIEW. THIS REHG, MEANGFUL MOMENT IS TERCUT WH A SCENE DURG WHICH JEFF TRAIL—AN ENSIGN AND A GULF WAR VETERAN WHO WAS LATER MURRED BY ANDREW CUNANAN—RISKS HIS REER TO PARTICIPATE A SEGMENT FOR CBS NEWSMAGAZE 48 HOURS.REPORTER RICHARD SCHLGER, WHO TERVIEWED THE REAL TRAIL 1993, LATER RELLED THAT THE U.S. NAVAL AMY GRADUATE “CHOSE TO SPEAK TO BEE HE THOUGHT WAS THE RIGHT THG TO DO.”THE SEGMENT CID WH “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” AND A CHANGE THE POLICY ON GAY PEOPLE SERVG THE ARY.“HE DID THE TERVIEW SILHOUETTE BUT HE WAS STILL TAKG A TREMENDO RISK WH HIS REER,” SAID SCHLGER. “HE HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHG TO GA BY DOG THE TERVIEW. YET HE TOOK THE RISK AND SPOKE OUT.”TRAIL WARNED SCHLGER, “YOU’RE GOG TO WEAKEN OUR NATNAL FENSE IF YOU REMOVE GAYS OM THE ARY. AND YOU’LL NEVER BE ABLE TO DO 100 PERCENT, ’S JT WHETHER OR NOT YOU’LL NTUE TO HUNT AND FORCE TO FEAR.”ASKED WHETHER HE FELT FORTABLE SPEAKG OM THE LERAL SHADOWS TO PROTECT HIS INTY, TRAIL SAID, “THERE IS NOTHG I WOULD LIKE MORE THAN TO BE L UP [HERE] AND TELL YOU WHO I AM AND SHOW YOU WHO I AM. BUT I AM NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT. IT’S [ONLY] FORTABLE FOR ME BEE I KNOW I WILL BE ABLE TO NTUE TO SERVE MY UNTRY AND DO MY JOB AND DO RIGHT. THAT’S WHAT I RE ABOUT MOST.”TO PREPARE TO PLAY TRAIL ON AMERIN CRIME STORY, ACTOR FN WTROCK TOLD VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST THAT HE WATCHED FOOTAGE OM THE 48 HOURS SPECIAL ON REPEAT: “THAT WAS MY BIBLE. I WOULD WATCH THAT AND LISTEN TO THAT EVERY DAY.”WTROCK SAID THAT WHEN HE FIRST READ THE SCRIPTS FOR THE SERI THE SUMMER OF 2017, HE THOUGHT THAT “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” WAS SUCH A “DATED” NCEPT.“I DON’T KNOW IF PEOPLE ARE GOG TO BE ABLE TO RELATE TO THAT,” WTROCK REMEMBERED THKG. “THEN A WEEK LATER THERE WAS THE TRANSGENR ARY TMP BAN . . . SUDNLY I THOUGHT, OH WOW. HOW MANY STEPS WE TAKE FORWARD AND HOW MANY WE TAKE BACK. SO SUDNLY I WAS EXAMG THE WHOLE STORY THAT WAY. HOW RELEVANT IS THIS STILL? SADLY, SO MUCH OF IS STILL RELEVANT.”WTROCK, WHO IS NOT GAY HIMSELF, SAID THAT HE PREPARED FOR THE ROLE BY SPEAKG TO GAY MEN WHO WERE “ THEIR FORTI OR FIFTI AND LIVED THROUGH THIS PERD WHEN THEY WEREN’T [OUT].” ULTIMATELY THOUGH, WTROCK WAS STCK BY HOW MUCH HE HAD MON WH TRAIL: “BIS MY SEXUALY, I ULD BE JEFF TRAIL. THERE’S VERY LTLE, I FOUND, THAT SEPARAT THAT WAY.”TO FD OUT MORE ABOUT THE TE STORY OF VERSACE, CUNANAN, TRAIL, AND MORE, YOU N LISTEN TO THE FULL TERVIEW WH WTROCK—AS WELL AS PAST GUTS MREEN ORTH, RICKY MART, MAX GREENFIELD, JUDH LIGHT, CODY FERN, AND WRER TOM ROB SMH—BY SUBSCRIBG TO STILL WATCHG: VERSACE ON APPLE PODSTS OR YOUR PODST APP OF CHOICE. NEW EPISOS OF THE PODST AIR EVERY WEDNDAY NIGHT.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISMEGHAN MARKLE’S ROYAL ENGAGEMENT STYLE1 / 19CHEVRONCHEVRONBY SAMIR HSE/WIREIMAGE.LONDON, APRIL 25JACKET AND DRS BY EIA WICKSTEAD, HAT BY PHILIP TREACY, BAG BY JIMMY CHOO.JULIE MILLER
• AMERIN CRIME STORY: GAY SHAME AND THE REMPTN OF DAVID MADSON
• THE MOMENT GIANNI VERSACE OPENED UP ABOUT HIS SEXUALY TO PRSTHE FASHN SIGNER SPOKE OPENLY ABOUT HIS SEXUALY AN TERVIEW TWO YEARS BEFORE HIS ATH.BY JULIE MILLERFEBARY 14, 2018GETTY; 105342483, 461748001LEFT, BY RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE; RIGHT, BY ALBERTO ROVERI/MONADADORI PORFOL/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEDURG WEDNDAY’S EPISO OF AMERIN CRIME STORY, “DON’T ASK DON’T TELL,” GIANNI VERSACE DO SOMETHG CREDIBLY BRAVE, PECIALLY FOR THE FACE OF A LUCRATIVE FASHN BRAND THAT POSTS NE-DIG ANNUAL SAL—AND THE LS TOLERANT CULTURAL CLIMATE OF THE 90S: HE OUT AN TERVIEW WH THE ADVOTE, TRODUCG HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND, ANTON D’AMI, TO JOURNALIST BRENDAN LEMON.ON AMERIN CRIME STORY, VERSACE PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG HIS SEXUALY EVEN AFTER HIS SISTER AND BS PARTNER DONATELLA (PLAYED BY PENELOPE CZ) PLEADS FOR HIM NOT TO—AAID THAT THE REVELATN ULD AFFECT SAL. WHILE ’S IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW WHAT NVERSATNS THE SIBLGS HAD BEHD-THE-SCEN ABOUT GIANNI’S SEXUALY, THE SIGNER’S STATEMENTS THIS REAL-LIFE TERVIEW REMA ON THE RERD.THE ACTUAL TERVIEW WAS TUCKED EP SI THE ADVOTE’S JULY 1995 ISSUE, AND PEGGED TO THE RELEASE OF VERSACE’S BOOK MEN WHOUT TI, WHICH THE SIGNER DITED “TO THE THREE ANTONS OF MY LIFE: MY FATHER, ANTON D’AMI, [AND] MY NEPHEW.”BRENDAN LEMON SCRIBED MEETG VERSACE AND D’AMI EARLIER THAT YEAR SI A ST. REGIS HOTEL SUE MANHATTAN, AND BEGAN THE TERVIEW BY ASKG VERSACE TO SCRIBE HIS THREE DITE.“VERSACE LLS ANTON D’AMI SIMPLY ‘MY PANN,’ AND FOR ONCE, THE PHRASE NNOT NOT SOME JAM-IAN SPSTER BEG TNDLED AROUND EUROPE BY A NIECE OR SOME PHEMISM BTOWED BY NEW YORK TIM OBUARY WRERS BUT A GENUE TERM OF ENARMENT,” WROTE LEMON, WHO ADD THAT D’AMI SAT “ ON THE TERVIEW AND CHIP[PED] THE OCSNAL WELL-RMED MENT.”LEMON WENT ON TO PORTRAY D’AMI AS A PARTNER BOTH THE PERSONAL AND PROFSNAL SENSE—LLG HIM “A HIGHER-UP THE VERSACE EMPIRE (WHOSE VAR L OF MENSWEAR, WOMENSWEAR, UTURE, AGRANC AND LICENSE HAD BED SAL OF MORE THAN $650 LN 1994) AS WELL AS VERSACE’S TIMATE FOR MORE THAN A .”THE ARTICLE SCRIBED THE OVERT SEXUALY OF VERSACE’S SIGNS AND ADVERTISG MPAIGNS, AND QUOTED RICHARD MART, CURATOR OF THE COSTUME INSTUTE AT THE METROPOLAN MM OF ART NEW YORK CY, AS SAYG, “THERE IS NO QUTN THAT VERSACE’S OWN OUT GAY INTY HAS BEEN A PART OF THIS WORK. HE IS THE TRADN OF THE AVANT-GAR, WHICH MEANS THAT HE IS WILLG TO RISK A LOT. AND HE DON’T N FOR VER WHEN HIS RISKS PROVOKE OUTRAGED RPONSE.”AMERIN CRIME STORY -CREATOR RYAN MURPHY HAS SAID THAT HE WAS EPLY AFFECTED BY VERSACE’S OPENNS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY THIS PARTICULAR TERVIEW.“I REMEMBER BEG SO PROUD AND EXCED WHEN HE DID THAT [G OUT] TERVIEW THE ADVOTE, BEE AT THE TIME THERE WASN’T REALLY A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE BRAVE ENOUGH TO LIVE THEIR LIFE THE OPEN,” MURPHY TOLD PRS THIS SUMMER.RICKY MART, WHO PLAYS D’AMI THE SERI, HAS ALSO SPOKEN ABOUT THE SIGNIFINCE OF THE SCENE FOR HIM.“I’M A GAY MAN THAT LIVED THE CLOSET FOR MANY YEARS. TO SEE THE PROCS OF GIANNI ACTUALLY G OUT AND STG DOWN ONT OF A JOURNALIST TO TALK ABOUT HIS REALY IS SOMETHG THAT MOVED ME MANY WAYS,” MART TOLD US WEEKLY. “THE FACT THAT THEY ULDN’T BE AS OPEN AS I AM RIGHT NOW WH MY RELATNSHIP IS SOMETHG THAT REALLY TRAT ME.”IN “DON’T ASK DON’T TELL,” VERSACE’S BOLD G OUT THE ADVOTE IS SHOWN NTRAST TO JEFEY TRAIL’S TERVIEW WH THE CBS NEWSMAGAZE 48 HOURS SEGMENT. ACTOR FN WTROCK TOLD VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST THAT ORR TO GET TO THE MDSET OF PLAYG ANDREW CUNANAN’S FIRST VICTIM, HE WATCHED THE FOOTAGE ON REPEAT: “THAT WAS MY BIBLE. I WOULD WATCH THAT AND LISTEN TO THAT EVERY DAY.” YOU N WATCH AN EXCERPT OF THAT FOOTAGE HERE:TO FD OUT MORE ABOUT THE TE STORY OF VERSACE, CUNANAN, TRAIL, AND MORE YOU N LISTEN TO THE FULL TERVIEW WH WTROCK—AS WELL AS PAST GUTS MREEN ORTH, RICKY MART, MAX GREENFIELD, JUDH LIGHT, CODY FERN, AND WRER TOM ROB SMH—BY SUBSCRIBG TO STILL WATCHG: VERSACE ON APPLE PODSTS OR YOUR PODST APP OF CHOICE. NEW EPISOS OF THE PODST AIR EVERY WEDNDAY NIGHT.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISVERSACE’S FIRST SHOW AFTER GIANNI VERSACE’S DEATH1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONBY KEN TOWNER/EVENG STANDARD/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.NAOMI CAMPBELLJULIE MILLER
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• HOW RICKY MART FEELS ABOUT PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER IN AMERIN CRIME STORY
• AMERIN CRIME STORY: HOW RYAN MURPHY TRANSFORMED RICKY MART’S REAL-LIFE PA TO STUNNG TVMART SPOKE WH VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG: VERSACE PODST ABOUT HIS VASTATG TURN THE SHOW’S PREMIERE.BY JOANNA ROBSONJANUARY 17, 2018COURTY OF FXSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS ANK DISCSN OF THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY PREMIERE: “THE MAN WHO WOULD BE VOGUE.”THOUGH HE’S BEEN THE SPOTLIGHT FOR 35 YEARS NOW, FORMER MENUDO MEMBER AND “LIV’ LA VIDA LO” SGER RICKY MART HAS ALWAYS PRENTED A FORTABLE AND FAIAR ON-STAGE PERSONA. WHE TEETH GLTG, EY SPARKLG, HAIR STYLED TO PERFECTN—WHEN YOU SEE A SHOWMAN LIKE MART, BE VEGAS OR ON BROADWAY, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE GETTG. BUT THE FIRST RYAN MURPHY-DIRECTED EPISO OF THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY, MART GIV HIS FANS SOMETHG THEY’VE NEVER SEEN OM HIM BEFORE: SPAIR, AND LOTS OF . THE PUERTO RI-BORN MART PLAYS ANTON D’AMI, LONGTIME LOVER OF GIANNI VERSACE, WHO—SPOILER ALERT, IF YOU IGNORED THE TLE OF THIS SERI ALTOGETHER—DI ON THE ONT STEPS OF THE LAVISH HOE HE AND ANTON SHARED THE SHOW’S OPENG SCENE.MART SPENDS THE RT OF THE EPISO GRIEF-STRICKEN AND VERED VERSACE’S BLOOD. IN A STRIKG, WORDLS, AND UNSCRIPTED MOMENT, MART LETS HIS ETERNALLY OPTIMISTIC MASK SLIP OFF ENTIRELY AND HE’S FANTASTIC. THE GLEAMG SE GONE AND EY SAGGG WH EXHSTN, MART—WEARG THE PERSONAL GRIEF OF HIS OWN S SPENT THE CLOSET—STAR AT HIMSELF THE MIRROR. “I GUS RYAN WANTED TO E AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT VULNERABILY,” MART SAID A NEW TERVIEW FOR VANY FAIR’S AMERIN CRIME STORY PANN PODST, STILL WATCHG: VERSACE. APPROACHG MART AFTER NE HOURS OF FILMG BOTH THE DISVERY OF VERSACE’S BODY AND A NONTATNAL POLICE TERROGATN SCENE, MURPHY SAID, “RICK, E ON, LET’S GO TO THE BATHROOM. I WANT YOU TO STAND ONT OF THE MIRROR. WASH YOUR HANDS BEE YOU’VE BEEN VERED BLOOD FOR THE LAST 10 HOURS AND GIVE ME WHATEVER YOU N ONT OF THE MIRROR.” IN THAT MOMENT, MART SAYS, HE WAS “EXHSTED, DRAED, AND REALLY SAD.”FROM THE AGE OF 12, MART LIVED HIS LIFE THE PUBLIC EYE—FIRST AS AN EARNT BOY BANR FOR THE LATO POP GROUP MENUDO, AND EVENTUALLY AS A WORLDWI SOLO-SGG SENSATN. BUT UNTIL THE AGE OF 38, THE CATHOLIC-RAISED MART KEPT THE TTH ABOUT HIS SEXUALY A SECRET. HE TELLS STILL WATCHG THAT HE FELT AN “TERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA,” WHICH SIARLY PLAGUED BOTH GIANNI VERSACE AND HIS ASSASS: ANDREW CUNANAN. MART SCRIB THOSE S AS “THE MOST UNFORTABLE AND SADST TIM OF MY LIFE. I THOUGHT MY EMOTNS WERE EVIL BEE THAT’S WHAT THEY TOLD ME. YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO FEEL LIKE THIS.” IN PAST TERVIEWS, HIS FAIAR, FORTG SE ALWAYS PLACE, MART HAS SPOKEN OF UNDIAGNOSED PRSIVE PERDS THAT LIFTED SIGNIFINTLY WHEN HE TOOK TO HIS OWN WEB SE 2010 AND ME OUT OF THE CLOSET.MURPHY’S CHOICE OF MART FOR THIS ROLE IS GENI STG FOR A SERI THAT EXPLOR THE WARPG, DAMAGG EFFECT OF CLOSETED SEXUALY AND ASPIRATNAL LIFTYL. MART REPRENTS, FOR MANY, THE EPOME OF THE CLOSETED 90S. BARBARA WALTERS, WHO HAS EXPRSED FEW PROFSNAL REGRETS HER LIFE, ADMTED 2010 THAT SHE HAD PRSED MART TOO HARD ON THE QUASI OPEN-SECRET OF HIS SEXUALY 2000, LLG HER LE OF QUTNG “APPROPRIATE.”THE SGER WAS LIVG MIAMI DURG VERSACE’S LATE-90S SOUTH BEACH REIGN, AND THOUGH THE TWO NEVER MET—“I HAD A GRG AMANI MPAIGN AT THE TIME,” MART EXPLAS—HE WAS EQUENTLY VED TO ATTEND PARTI AT THE VERSACE MANSN. AS AN OUT AND PROUD SIGNER, VERSACE WAS AN ANOMALY EVEN THE GAY-IENDLY WORLD OF FASHN. THOUGH VERSACE’S OPEN SEXUALY DID NOTHG FOR MART AT THE TIME (“ON THE NTRARY I WAS SO LOCKED A CLOSET”), THE SGER RELAT TO THE EXAMPLE VERSACE SET, HAVG DONE THE SAME FOR MANY OF HIS OWN FANS 2010. “NO ONE KNOWS HOW EASY IS TO E OUT UNTIL THEY DO .”MART FALLY SHOWED UP TO THE VERSACE HOE 20 YEARS LATER, WHEN, FOR TWO WEEKS LAST SPRG, AMERIN CRIME STORY MOVED TO THE SIGNER’S OLD HOME ON OCEAN DRIVE (NOW A HOTEL) ORR TO METICULOLY RE-CREATE THE SCENE OF THE CRIME. MART SAID HE “LIVED” AS ANTON THE ENTIRE TIME HE WAS THAT HOE—AND UNLIKE MOST OF HIS -STARS, MART WAS ABLE TO TALK TO THE REAL PERSON WHO SPIRED HIS PERFORMANCE.ADOPTG A DRAMATIC ITALIAN ACCENT, MART TELLS STILL WATCHG OF ANTON’S IAL DISAPPOTMENT WH SOME PHOTOS THAT HAD LEAKED OFF THE SET: “RICKY! I NEVER WEAR A GREEN SHIRT!” BUT THAT EARLY PHBACK OM D’AMI TURNED TO A CLOSE DIALOGUE BETWEEN ANTON AND MART, THE MAN WHO WOULD BEE HIM. VERSACE’S LONGTIME PARTNER ANSWERED MART’S MOST DIFFICULT QUTNS PASTAKG TAIL, TO THE POT WHERE MART WAS ABLE TO E ARMED WH, PERHAPS, MORE FIRSTHAND SIGHT THAN ANYONE ELSE THE ST. “EVERYTHG THAT YOU SEE,” HE SAYS, “IS BASED ON THE MUNITN I HAD DIRECTLY WH ANTON D’AMI.”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 CANFIELDTHE REARCH MART DID PAID OFF, AS DID HIS CLOSE IENDSHIP WH EDGAR RAMIREZ THE ACTOR PLAYG GIANNI VERSACE—WHOM MART ENTHIASTILLY LLS HIS “BROTHER.” BUT MURPHY’S STROKE OF GENI TURNG MART’S REAL-LIFE EMOTNAL EXHSTN TO THEATER IS WHAT LIVERS UP THE EPISO’S MOST ARRTG IMAGE. AND MART, WHO SO BRAVELY SHARED A CLOSELY GUARD SECRET WH HIS FANS 2010, SHAR YET ANOTHER TTH THE AMERIN CRIME STORY PREMIERE: THE TRMATIC TOLL THAT SECRET LIFE TOOK ON HIM, EVEN AS HE SED BROADLY AND SHOOK HIS BON BON FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE.YOU N LISTEN TO THE FULL TERVIEW WH MART ON THE LATT EPISO OF STILL WATCHG: VERSACE. SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODSTS OR YOUR PODST APP OF CHOICE, AND DON’T MISS A SGLE BEHD-THE-SCEN TERVIEW AS VANY FAIR FOLLOWS ALONG CLOSELY WH AMERIN CRIME STORY SEASON 2.THE VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY CAST AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONLEFT, BY DAVID LE/THE LIFE IMAG COLLECTN; RIGHT, BY RACHEL MURRAY, BOTH OM GETTY IMAG.ÉDGAR RAMíREZ AS GIANNI VERSACETHE EMMY NOMEE STARS AS THE LIMED SERI’S NAMAKE, THE FLAMBOYANT SIGNER MURRED MIAMI AT THE PEAK OF HIS REER.JOANNA ROBSON
• ‘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
• IN ‘AMERIN CRIME,’ AN HONT PORTRAYAL OF GAY TEENS CRISIS

RICKY MART ON PLAYG HIS FIRST GAY CHARACTER THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE

“We’re gog to go mastream wh a story that talks about homophobia, that talks about hate, that talks about difference. ” The project marks several firsts for Mart, cludg his first role as a gay man sce Mart himself me out 2010. ”The segment cid wh “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and a change the policy on gay people servg the ary.

”Trail warned Schlger, “You’re gog to weaken our natnal fense if you remove gays om the ary. ”Wtrock, who is not gay himself, said that he prepared for the role by speakg to gay men who were “ their forti or fifti and lived through this perd when they weren’t [out].

VERSACE: WATCH JEFF TRAIL’S REAL-LIFE INTERVIEW ABOUT BEG GAY THE MILARY“HE CHOSE TO SPEAK TO BEE HE THOUGHT WAS THE RIGHT THG TO DO,” SAID 48 HOURS REPORTER RICHARD SCHLGER.BY JULIE MILLER AND JOANNA ROBSONFEBARY 14, 2018FN WTROCK AS JEFEY TRAIL AMERIN CRIME STORY: THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE.BY RAY MICKSHAW/FX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWEDNDAY NIGHT’S EPISO OF THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY FEATUR TWO VERY DIFFERENT G-OUT SCEN. IN ONE, SET 1995, GIANNI VERSACE OPENLY DISCS HIS SEXUALY WH A REPORTER OM THE ADVOTE, EVEN TRODUCG HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND, ANTON D’AMI, DURG THE TERVIEW. THIS REHG, MEANGFUL MOMENT IS TERCUT WH A SCENE DURG WHICH JEFF TRAIL—AN ENSIGN AND A GULF WAR VETERAN WHO WAS LATER MURRED BY ANDREW CUNANAN—RISKS HIS REER TO PARTICIPATE A SEGMENT FOR CBS NEWSMAGAZE 48 HOURS.REPORTER RICHARD SCHLGER, WHO TERVIEWED THE REAL TRAIL 1993, LATER RELLED THAT THE U.S. NAVAL AMY GRADUATE “CHOSE TO SPEAK TO BEE HE THOUGHT WAS THE RIGHT THG TO DO.”THE SEGMENT CID WH “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” AND A CHANGE THE POLICY ON GAY PEOPLE SERVG THE ARY.“HE DID THE TERVIEW SILHOUETTE BUT HE WAS STILL TAKG A TREMENDO RISK WH HIS REER,” SAID SCHLGER. “HE HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHG TO GA BY DOG THE TERVIEW. YET HE TOOK THE RISK AND SPOKE OUT.”TRAIL WARNED SCHLGER, “YOU’RE GOG TO WEAKEN OUR NATNAL FENSE IF YOU REMOVE GAYS OM THE ARY. AND YOU’LL NEVER BE ABLE TO DO 100 PERCENT, ’S JT WHETHER OR NOT YOU’LL NTUE TO HUNT AND FORCE TO FEAR.”ASKED WHETHER HE FELT FORTABLE SPEAKG OM THE LERAL SHADOWS TO PROTECT HIS INTY, TRAIL SAID, “THERE IS NOTHG I WOULD LIKE MORE THAN TO BE L UP [HERE] AND TELL YOU WHO I AM AND SHOW YOU WHO I AM. BUT I AM NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT. IT’S [ONLY] FORTABLE FOR ME BEE I KNOW I WILL BE ABLE TO NTUE TO SERVE MY UNTRY AND DO MY JOB AND DO RIGHT. THAT’S WHAT I RE ABOUT MOST.”TO PREPARE TO PLAY TRAIL ON AMERIN CRIME STORY, ACTOR FN WTROCK TOLD VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST THAT HE WATCHED FOOTAGE OM THE 48 HOURS SPECIAL ON REPEAT: “THAT WAS MY BIBLE. I WOULD WATCH THAT AND LISTEN TO THAT EVERY DAY.”WTROCK SAID THAT WHEN HE FIRST READ THE SCRIPTS FOR THE SERI THE SUMMER OF 2017, HE THOUGHT THAT “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” WAS SUCH A “DATED” NCEPT.“I DON’T KNOW IF PEOPLE ARE GOG TO BE ABLE TO RELATE TO THAT,” WTROCK REMEMBERED THKG. “THEN A WEEK LATER THERE WAS THE TRANSGENR ARY TMP BAN . . . SUDNLY I THOUGHT, OH WOW. HOW MANY STEPS WE TAKE FORWARD AND HOW MANY WE TAKE BACK. SO SUDNLY I WAS EXAMG THE WHOLE STORY THAT WAY. HOW RELEVANT IS THIS STILL? SADLY, SO MUCH OF IS STILL RELEVANT.”WTROCK, WHO IS NOT GAY HIMSELF, SAID THAT HE PREPARED FOR THE ROLE BY SPEAKG TO GAY MEN WHO WERE “ THEIR FORTI OR FIFTI AND LIVED THROUGH THIS PERD WHEN THEY WEREN’T [OUT].” ULTIMATELY THOUGH, WTROCK WAS STCK BY HOW MUCH HE HAD MON WH TRAIL: “BIS MY SEXUALY, I ULD BE JEFF TRAIL. THERE’S VERY LTLE, I FOUND, THAT SEPARAT THAT WAY.”TO FD OUT MORE ABOUT THE TE STORY OF VERSACE, CUNANAN, TRAIL, AND MORE, YOU N LISTEN TO THE FULL TERVIEW WH WTROCK—AS WELL AS PAST GUTS MREEN ORTH, RICKY MART, MAX GREENFIELD, JUDH LIGHT, CODY FERN, AND WRER TOM ROB SMH—BY SUBSCRIBG TO STILL WATCHG: VERSACE ON APPLE PODSTS OR YOUR PODST APP OF CHOICE. NEW EPISOS OF THE PODST AIR EVERY WEDNDAY NIGHT.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISMEGHAN MARKLE’S ROYAL ENGAGEMENT STYLE1 / 19CHEVRONCHEVRONBY SAMIR HSE/WIREIMAGE.LONDON, APRIL 25JACKET AND DRS BY EIA WICKSTEAD, HAT BY PHILIP TREACY, BAG BY JIMMY CHOO.JULIE MILLER

Speakg wh Vany Fair’s podst Still Watchg: Versace, Fern adms that this episo, and Amerin Crime Story as a whole, do reprent a ba and swch, one signed to get dienc to re about Cunanan’s ls famo victims—and, more broadly, the plight of gay men the 90s. But for Smh and Fern, Madson’s drivg ncern his fal days was clear: ternalized gay ’s te that Amerin Crime Story had to do a lot more theorizg than ual this episo; wh both Cunanan and Madson ad, there is no way to know exactly what happened on their journey. The only thg all his victims had mon, other than beg gay, is that they had eher rejected him some way or were succsful and happy their own way.

AMERIN CRIME STORY: GAY SHAME AND THE REMPTN OF DAVID MADSON

One thg repeatedly shown Amerin Crime Story is the unfathomable overreactn (read: homophobia) that people have, jt by fdg out that the person next to them is ‘not straight’. In one scene Amerin Crime Story, they showed how a young straight man btally murred an old gay man bee, he claimed the latter was ‘tryg to touch him’. Siarly, up until Cunanan killed Versace, a known, powerful figure around the world, the police (aga) did not bother to vtigate the serial murrs bee gay men were beg killed so, good riddance, right?

If you’re lucky and you don’t have to face that, you will fely notice how the other person, maybe someone you nsired a iend, bee unfortable, fumblg to fd the right words so as to not give away their homophobia.

THE MOMENT GIANNI VERSACE OPENED UP ABOUT HIS SEXUALY TO PRSTHE FASHN SIGNER SPOKE OPENLY ABOUT HIS SEXUALY AN TERVIEW TWO YEARS BEFORE HIS ATH.BY JULIE MILLERFEBARY 14, 2018GETTY; 105342483, 461748001LEFT, BY RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE; RIGHT, BY ALBERTO ROVERI/MONADADORI PORFOL/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEDURG WEDNDAY’S EPISO OF AMERIN CRIME STORY, “DON’T ASK DON’T TELL,” GIANNI VERSACE DO SOMETHG CREDIBLY BRAVE, PECIALLY FOR THE FACE OF A LUCRATIVE FASHN BRAND THAT POSTS NE-DIG ANNUAL SAL—AND THE LS TOLERANT CULTURAL CLIMATE OF THE 90S: HE OUT AN TERVIEW WH THE ADVOTE, TRODUCG HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND, ANTON D’AMI, TO JOURNALIST BRENDAN LEMON.ON AMERIN CRIME STORY, VERSACE PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG HIS SEXUALY EVEN AFTER HIS SISTER AND BS PARTNER DONATELLA (PLAYED BY PENELOPE CZ) PLEADS FOR HIM NOT TO—AAID THAT THE REVELATN ULD AFFECT SAL. WHILE ’S IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW WHAT NVERSATNS THE SIBLGS HAD BEHD-THE-SCEN ABOUT GIANNI’S SEXUALY, THE SIGNER’S STATEMENTS THIS REAL-LIFE TERVIEW REMA ON THE RERD.THE ACTUAL TERVIEW WAS TUCKED EP SI THE ADVOTE’S JULY 1995 ISSUE, AND PEGGED TO THE RELEASE OF VERSACE’S BOOK MEN WHOUT TI, WHICH THE SIGNER DITED “TO THE THREE ANTONS OF MY LIFE: MY FATHER, ANTON D’AMI, [AND] MY NEPHEW.”BRENDAN LEMON SCRIBED MEETG VERSACE AND D’AMI EARLIER THAT YEAR SI A ST. REGIS HOTEL SUE MANHATTAN, AND BEGAN THE TERVIEW BY ASKG VERSACE TO SCRIBE HIS THREE DITE.“VERSACE LLS ANTON D’AMI SIMPLY ‘MY PANN,’ AND FOR ONCE, THE PHRASE NNOT NOT SOME JAM-IAN SPSTER BEG TNDLED AROUND EUROPE BY A NIECE OR SOME PHEMISM BTOWED BY NEW YORK TIM OBUARY WRERS BUT A GENUE TERM OF ENARMENT,” WROTE LEMON, WHO ADD THAT D’AMI SAT “ ON THE TERVIEW AND CHIP[PED] THE OCSNAL WELL-RMED MENT.”LEMON WENT ON TO PORTRAY D’AMI AS A PARTNER BOTH THE PERSONAL AND PROFSNAL SENSE—LLG HIM “A HIGHER-UP THE VERSACE EMPIRE (WHOSE VAR L OF MENSWEAR, WOMENSWEAR, UTURE, AGRANC AND LICENSE HAD BED SAL OF MORE THAN $650 LN 1994) AS WELL AS VERSACE’S TIMATE FOR MORE THAN A .”THE ARTICLE SCRIBED THE OVERT SEXUALY OF VERSACE’S SIGNS AND ADVERTISG MPAIGNS, AND QUOTED RICHARD MART, CURATOR OF THE COSTUME INSTUTE AT THE METROPOLAN MM OF ART NEW YORK CY, AS SAYG, “THERE IS NO QUTN THAT VERSACE’S OWN OUT GAY INTY HAS BEEN A PART OF THIS WORK. HE IS THE TRADN OF THE AVANT-GAR, WHICH MEANS THAT HE IS WILLG TO RISK A LOT. AND HE DON’T N FOR VER WHEN HIS RISKS PROVOKE OUTRAGED RPONSE.”AMERIN CRIME STORY -CREATOR RYAN MURPHY HAS SAID THAT HE WAS EPLY AFFECTED BY VERSACE’S OPENNS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY THIS PARTICULAR TERVIEW.“I REMEMBER BEG SO PROUD AND EXCED WHEN HE DID THAT [G OUT] TERVIEW THE ADVOTE, BEE AT THE TIME THERE WASN’T REALLY A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE BRAVE ENOUGH TO LIVE THEIR LIFE THE OPEN,” MURPHY TOLD PRS THIS SUMMER.RICKY MART, WHO PLAYS D’AMI THE SERI, HAS ALSO SPOKEN ABOUT THE SIGNIFINCE OF THE SCENE FOR HIM.“I’M A GAY MAN THAT LIVED THE CLOSET FOR MANY YEARS. TO SEE THE PROCS OF GIANNI ACTUALLY G OUT AND STG DOWN ONT OF A JOURNALIST TO TALK ABOUT HIS REALY IS SOMETHG THAT MOVED ME MANY WAYS,” MART TOLD US WEEKLY. “THE FACT THAT THEY ULDN’T BE AS OPEN AS I AM RIGHT NOW WH MY RELATNSHIP IS SOMETHG THAT REALLY TRAT ME.”IN “DON’T ASK DON’T TELL,” VERSACE’S BOLD G OUT THE ADVOTE IS SHOWN NTRAST TO JEFEY TRAIL’S TERVIEW WH THE CBS NEWSMAGAZE 48 HOURS SEGMENT. ACTOR FN WTROCK TOLD VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST THAT ORR TO GET TO THE MDSET OF PLAYG ANDREW CUNANAN’S FIRST VICTIM, HE WATCHED THE FOOTAGE ON REPEAT: “THAT WAS MY BIBLE. I WOULD WATCH THAT AND LISTEN TO THAT EVERY DAY.” YOU N WATCH AN EXCERPT OF THAT FOOTAGE HERE:TO FD OUT MORE ABOUT THE TE STORY OF VERSACE, CUNANAN, TRAIL, AND MORE YOU N LISTEN TO THE FULL TERVIEW WH WTROCK—AS WELL AS PAST GUTS MREEN ORTH, RICKY MART, MAX GREENFIELD, JUDH LIGHT, CODY FERN, AND WRER TOM ROB SMH—BY SUBSCRIBG TO STILL WATCHG: VERSACE ON APPLE PODSTS OR YOUR PODST APP OF CHOICE. NEW EPISOS OF THE PODST AIR EVERY WEDNDAY NIGHT.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISVERSACE’S FIRST SHOW AFTER GIANNI VERSACE’S DEATH1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONBY KEN TOWNER/EVENG STANDARD/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.NAOMI CAMPBELLJULIE MILLER

This was shown betifully one of the episos where Cunanan’s first victim Jefey Trial, a Naval Officer and his fal victim Gianni Versace, a famo fashn signer, both prepare to take an terview to e out as gay.

People still lgh at effemate and gay men and go on to ll themselv ‘open-md’ and alli. Amerin Crime Story shows and very boldly too, what is like to live as a gay person this world, whether you are rich, poor, middle class, stgglg or gifted.

How the heteronormativy of the society, the people around : straight men thkg that gay men will treat them the way they treat women and other mori, straight women thkg that gay women are arrogant or through the male gaze – as fetish – ph the muny to the brk of their read: When Vlence Agast LGBTQ Communy Isn’t Glamouro Enough For Media CoverageAmerin Crime Story shows how the heteronormativy of the society, the people around : straight men thkg that gay men will treat them the way they treat women and other mori, straight women thkg that gay women are arrogant or through the male gaze – as fetish – ph the muny to the brk of their live a world where this do not sound like somethg that ed to happen or somethg that happens only web seri and movi.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

We see how homophobia forced a naval officer to leave the job he loved and is forced to bee a worker at a rporate earng jt enough money, how a bsman has his head bashed and how a sailor had his ribs broken only for beg gay, not even openly. We see how the life of Versace’s partner, Anton, stops beg of any signifince after his ath, how everyone tri their very bt to remove all hts of Gianni Versace beg gay after his funeral and how beg gay self is such a big, often sndalisg, news. ”The article scribed the overt sexualy of Versace’s signs and advertisg mpaigns, and quoted Richard Mart, curator of the Costume Instute at the Metropolan Mm of Art New York Cy, as sayg, “There is no qutn that Versace’s own out gay inty has been a part of this work.

“I’m a gay man that lived the closet for many years. ‘Tom Holland gay sex ma me google The Crowd Room real quick, ’ another trigued viewer shared. ‘Oh no I got my parents to The Crowd Room and I’ve jt learned that one of my theori is rrect and we will ed be seeg Tom Holland a gay sex scene.

When iends, cludg mystery wrers, learned that I was pilg my list of the ten bt gay film mysteri, several exprsed surprise that I uld fd that many.

GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS

The new edn of my book The Gay Male Slth Prt and Film (Srecrow Prs, November 2012) lists some 130 tl for me to choose om, 1948-2011, this number cludg only films wh some kd of a gay vtigator. The Gay Male Slth Prt and Film.

HOW RICKY MART FEELS ABOUT PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER IN AMERIN CRIME STORY

Then there are crime films which gays have rol other than as vtigators, but I cid to abi by the parameters I tablished for my book and elimated all films which homosexuals serve only as weak, hapls victims or as murro crimals. One mt watch through historil lens (among other thgs, was the first time filmgoers heard the word “homosexual” a movie hoe), but largely bee of Bogar, still packs a punch.

AMERIN CRIME STORY: HOW RYAN MURPHY TRANSFORMED RICKY MART’S REAL-LIFE PA TO STUNNG TVMART SPOKE WH VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG: VERSACE PODST ABOUT HIS VASTATG TURN THE SHOW’S PREMIERE.BY JOANNA ROBSONJANUARY 17, 2018COURTY OF FXSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS ANK DISCSN OF THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY PREMIERE: “THE MAN WHO WOULD BE VOGUE.”THOUGH HE’S BEEN THE SPOTLIGHT FOR 35 YEARS NOW, FORMER MENUDO MEMBER AND “LIV’ LA VIDA LO” SGER RICKY MART HAS ALWAYS PRENTED A FORTABLE AND FAIAR ON-STAGE PERSONA. WHE TEETH GLTG, EY SPARKLG, HAIR STYLED TO PERFECTN—WHEN YOU SEE A SHOWMAN LIKE MART, BE VEGAS OR ON BROADWAY, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE GETTG. BUT THE FIRST RYAN MURPHY-DIRECTED EPISO OF THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY, MART GIV HIS FANS SOMETHG THEY’VE NEVER SEEN OM HIM BEFORE: SPAIR, AND LOTS OF . THE PUERTO RI-BORN MART PLAYS ANTON D’AMI, LONGTIME LOVER OF GIANNI VERSACE, WHO—SPOILER ALERT, IF YOU IGNORED THE TLE OF THIS SERI ALTOGETHER—DI ON THE ONT STEPS OF THE LAVISH HOE HE AND ANTON SHARED THE SHOW’S OPENG SCENE.MART SPENDS THE RT OF THE EPISO GRIEF-STRICKEN AND VERED VERSACE’S BLOOD. IN A STRIKG, WORDLS, AND UNSCRIPTED MOMENT, MART LETS HIS ETERNALLY OPTIMISTIC MASK SLIP OFF ENTIRELY AND HE’S FANTASTIC. THE GLEAMG SE GONE AND EY SAGGG WH EXHSTN, MART—WEARG THE PERSONAL GRIEF OF HIS OWN S SPENT THE CLOSET—STAR AT HIMSELF THE MIRROR. “I GUS RYAN WANTED TO E AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT VULNERABILY,” MART SAID A NEW TERVIEW FOR VANY FAIR’S AMERIN CRIME STORY PANN PODST, STILL WATCHG: VERSACE. APPROACHG MART AFTER NE HOURS OF FILMG BOTH THE DISVERY OF VERSACE’S BODY AND A NONTATNAL POLICE TERROGATN SCENE, MURPHY SAID, “RICK, E ON, LET’S GO TO THE BATHROOM. I WANT YOU TO STAND ONT OF THE MIRROR. WASH YOUR HANDS BEE YOU’VE BEEN VERED BLOOD FOR THE LAST 10 HOURS AND GIVE ME WHATEVER YOU N ONT OF THE MIRROR.” IN THAT MOMENT, MART SAYS, HE WAS “EXHSTED, DRAED, AND REALLY SAD.”FROM THE AGE OF 12, MART LIVED HIS LIFE THE PUBLIC EYE—FIRST AS AN EARNT BOY BANR FOR THE LATO POP GROUP MENUDO, AND EVENTUALLY AS A WORLDWI SOLO-SGG SENSATN. BUT UNTIL THE AGE OF 38, THE CATHOLIC-RAISED MART KEPT THE TTH ABOUT HIS SEXUALY A SECRET. HE TELLS STILL WATCHG THAT HE FELT AN “TERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA,” WHICH SIARLY PLAGUED BOTH GIANNI VERSACE AND HIS ASSASS: ANDREW CUNANAN. MART SCRIB THOSE S AS “THE MOST UNFORTABLE AND SADST TIM OF MY LIFE. I THOUGHT MY EMOTNS WERE EVIL BEE THAT’S WHAT THEY TOLD ME. YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO FEEL LIKE THIS.” IN PAST TERVIEWS, HIS FAIAR, FORTG SE ALWAYS PLACE, MART HAS SPOKEN OF UNDIAGNOSED PRSIVE PERDS THAT LIFTED SIGNIFINTLY WHEN HE TOOK TO HIS OWN WEB SE 2010 AND ME OUT OF THE CLOSET.MURPHY’S CHOICE OF MART FOR THIS ROLE IS GENI STG FOR A SERI THAT EXPLOR THE WARPG, DAMAGG EFFECT OF CLOSETED SEXUALY AND ASPIRATNAL LIFTYL. MART REPRENTS, FOR MANY, THE EPOME OF THE CLOSETED 90S. BARBARA WALTERS, WHO HAS EXPRSED FEW PROFSNAL REGRETS HER LIFE, ADMTED 2010 THAT SHE HAD PRSED MART TOO HARD ON THE QUASI OPEN-SECRET OF HIS SEXUALY 2000, LLG HER LE OF QUTNG “APPROPRIATE.”THE SGER WAS LIVG MIAMI DURG VERSACE’S LATE-90S SOUTH BEACH REIGN, AND THOUGH THE TWO NEVER MET—“I HAD A GRG AMANI MPAIGN AT THE TIME,” MART EXPLAS—HE WAS EQUENTLY VED TO ATTEND PARTI AT THE VERSACE MANSN. AS AN OUT AND PROUD SIGNER, VERSACE WAS AN ANOMALY EVEN THE GAY-IENDLY WORLD OF FASHN. THOUGH VERSACE’S OPEN SEXUALY DID NOTHG FOR MART AT THE TIME (“ON THE NTRARY I WAS SO LOCKED A CLOSET”), THE SGER RELAT TO THE EXAMPLE VERSACE SET, HAVG DONE THE SAME FOR MANY OF HIS OWN FANS 2010. “NO ONE KNOWS HOW EASY IS TO E OUT UNTIL THEY DO .”MART FALLY SHOWED UP TO THE VERSACE HOE 20 YEARS LATER, WHEN, FOR TWO WEEKS LAST SPRG, AMERIN CRIME STORY MOVED TO THE SIGNER’S OLD HOME ON OCEAN DRIVE (NOW A HOTEL) ORR TO METICULOLY RE-CREATE THE SCENE OF THE CRIME. MART SAID HE “LIVED” AS ANTON THE ENTIRE TIME HE WAS THAT HOE—AND UNLIKE MOST OF HIS -STARS, MART WAS ABLE TO TALK TO THE REAL PERSON WHO SPIRED HIS PERFORMANCE.ADOPTG A DRAMATIC ITALIAN ACCENT, MART TELLS STILL WATCHG OF ANTON’S IAL DISAPPOTMENT WH SOME PHOTOS THAT HAD LEAKED OFF THE SET: “RICKY! I NEVER WEAR A GREEN SHIRT!” BUT THAT EARLY PHBACK OM D’AMI TURNED TO A CLOSE DIALOGUE BETWEEN ANTON AND MART, THE MAN WHO WOULD BEE HIM. VERSACE’S LONGTIME PARTNER ANSWERED MART’S MOST DIFFICULT QUTNS PASTAKG TAIL, TO THE POT WHERE MART WAS ABLE TO E ARMED WH, PERHAPS, MORE FIRSTHAND SIGHT THAN ANYONE ELSE THE ST. “EVERYTHG THAT YOU SEE,” HE SAYS, “IS BASED ON THE MUNITN I HAD DIRECTLY WH ANTON D’AMI.”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 CANFIELDTHE REARCH MART DID PAID OFF, AS DID HIS CLOSE IENDSHIP WH EDGAR RAMIREZ THE ACTOR PLAYG GIANNI VERSACE—WHOM MART ENTHIASTILLY LLS HIS “BROTHER.” BUT MURPHY’S STROKE OF GENI TURNG MART’S REAL-LIFE EMOTNAL EXHSTN TO THEATER IS WHAT LIVERS UP THE EPISO’S MOST ARRTG IMAGE. AND MART, WHO SO BRAVELY SHARED A CLOSELY GUARD SECRET WH HIS FANS 2010, SHAR YET ANOTHER TTH THE AMERIN CRIME STORY PREMIERE: THE TRMATIC TOLL THAT SECRET LIFE TOOK ON HIM, EVEN AS HE SED BROADLY AND SHOOK HIS BON BON FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE.YOU N LISTEN TO THE FULL TERVIEW WH MART ON THE LATT EPISO OF STILL WATCHG: VERSACE. SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODSTS OR YOUR PODST APP OF CHOICE, AND DON’T MISS A SGLE BEHD-THE-SCEN TERVIEW AS VANY FAIR FOLLOWS ALONG CLOSELY WH AMERIN CRIME STORY SEASON 2.THE VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY CAST AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONLEFT, BY DAVID LE/THE LIFE IMAG COLLECTN; RIGHT, BY RACHEL MURRAY, BOTH OM GETTY IMAG.ÉDGAR RAMíREZ AS GIANNI VERSACETHE EMMY NOMEE STARS AS THE LIMED SERI’S NAMAKE, THE FLAMBOYANT SIGNER MURRED MIAMI AT THE PEAK OF HIS REER.JOANNA ROBSON

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‘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

9 Dead Gay Guys. He fds stead that Byron is a small-time htler — gay for pay. The film received the dience award at the Dubl Gay & Lbian Film Ftival.

IN ‘AMERIN CRIME,’ AN HONT PORTRAYAL OF GAY TEENS CRISIS

Private vtigator Perry Van Shrike, aka Gay Perry (Val Kilmer). I hated to clu the film my top list sce Perry is the only open gay sight.

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