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Contents:
- RYAN MURPHY IS MAKG A NETFLIX SERI ABOUT GAY SERIAL KILLER JEFEY DAHMER
- LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
- STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
- DETECTIVE SERI ABOUT GAYS
RYAN MURPHY IS MAKG A NETFLIX SERI ABOUT GAY SERIAL KILLER JEFEY DAHMER
HBO doceri 'Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York' follows a strg of murrs targetg gay men the 1990s. * series about gay murders *
All the targets — Peter Anrson, Thomas Mulhy, Anthony Marrero, Michael Sakara — were gay men picked up Manhattan one eveng only to turn up hours or days later as severed body parts roadsi trash ns outsi the cy.
LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
* series about gay murders *
But I also spect ’s no surprise that tak the ps an furiatgly long time to get there — nor that the eply graed homophobia of law enforcement specifilly and Amerin society more broadly is what slows them down.
“Why is the emphasis on the gay part?
As far as the thori are ncerned, “The gay thg wasn’t really relevant to the vtigatn other than fdg out who might kill him, and where he hung out. Archival footage lays out on one hand the vilent celty of Ana Bryant’s anti-gay speech and the unabashed homophobia of law enforcement lears sneerg that sodomy is a crime, and the rage of AIDS protts and the pleasur of queer nightlife on the other. Activists like Bea Hanson and Matt Foreman (both formerly of the NYC Anti-Vlence Project) and reporters like Dunn Osborne (om Gay Cy News) remember beg flood wh reports of hate crim, and the hostile difference of tablishments like the NYPD or the mastream media toward them.
STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
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(A smatterg of more recent clips nnect those old prejudic to the anti-gay, anti-trans sentiment bubblg back up today, though Last Call rrectly assum most dienc n make the nnectn on their own. It clocks what’s not beg said when Marrero’s big brother still nnot brg himself to acknowledge that Anthony was a gay sex worker — and how much that silence now weighs on Anton, Anthony’s bisexual Gen Z nephew. It leans as Ceyenne Doroshow (now bt known as the founr of GLITS, or Gays and Lbians Livg a Transgenr Society) relays memori of Anthony teachg her about ncealer, or sharg meals and Monopoly gam at her hoe.
DETECTIVE SERI ABOUT GAYS
It will follow the real-life se of gay serial killer Jefey Dahmer, who btally claimed the liv of 17 boys and young men between 1978 and 1991. Murphy’s treatment of the Milwkee Monster, acrdg to Deadle, will look at Dahmer’s story om the victims’ pots of view, siar to the style of the culmatg episos of Murphy’s 2018 FX drama, The Assassatn of Gianni Versace, which equent Murphy player Darren Criss sensively portrayed gay murrer Andrew Dahmer as his subject, Murphy may have a harr time fdg ways to humanize the prolific killer, whose methods of torture clud nnibalism, necrophilia, lobotomi, and dismemberment.