This month, we’re takg a look at some of the most famo gay serial killers—and how their victims were treated, by the police, the media, and the public. Due to eply graed bias, ignored and mishandled evince, and assumptns about the victims, some of the s took s to solve while victim unts ntued to grow. Here are four gay serial killers that evad tectn part bee of homophobia.
Contents:
- NETFLIX’S ‘JOHN WAYNE GACY TAP’ IS A REVELATORY LOOK AT THE SERIAL KILLER WHO FED OFF 1970S GAY PANIC
- QUEER CRIME: HOW HOMOPHOBIA HELPED 4 GAY SERIAL KILLERS CONTUE TO KILL
NETFLIX’S ‘JOHN WAYNE GACY TAP’ IS A REVELATORY LOOK AT THE SERIAL KILLER WHO FED OFF 1970S GAY PANIC
"He was a homophobic homosexual, " says Sam L.
" Amirante and fellow attorney Danny Brorick are the thors of John Wayne Gacy: Defendg a Monster, a rare si look at one of the natn's most horrific and fascatg serial killers -- and the first wh an openly gay slant. " The thors believe was this ternalized homophobia, an almost pathologil lack of self-acceptance, that motivated Gacy to kill.
QUEER CRIME: HOW HOMOPHOBIA HELPED 4 GAY SERIAL KILLERS CONTUE TO KILL
" Brorick says this ternal homophobia is what created the monster they chronicle the book: "His father wanted John Wayne as a son and he got John Gacy.
" In addn, says Amirante, homophobia ntributed to the abundance of Gacy's killgs: "In 1978 was a totally different climate.