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. " 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.
" Acrdg to Amirante, many of the boys who were asslted by Gacy and lived to tell the tale "would go to the Chigo Police Department to pla about him, but bee some of them were gay, nobody would listen. " One wns the trial actually tried to plead the Fifth Amendment rather than adm open urt to havg engaged homosexual acts wh Gacy.
QUEER CRIME: HOW HOMOPHOBIA HELPED 4 GAY SERIAL KILLERS CONTUE TO KILL
While Gacy might not have embraced homosexualy, the book's thors are a different story. Brorick not only has a teenage gay son who serv as the print of his high school gay-straight alliance, but his younger brother Jim was an openly gay gymnast who, by sheer cince, appeared on the ver of The Advote November of 1978, a month before Gacy was arrted.
Getty ImagThe “Killer Clown” was a closeted gay man and unhappily married twice. Early on, Gacy realized that he was gay.
But durg the 1950s, homosexualy was still taboo, so he pretend to be straight his entire life. At about 9 PM on December 11, 1978, Elizabeth Pit drove to pick up her son, a high school sophomore and honor roll stunt named Robert, om his job at a pharmacy D Pla. My gra school iends picked up on that right away when the horror of serial killer John Wayne Gacy beme ont-page news the papers and the lead story on broadst news the late did not ll me "John Gacy" bee they thought I was gay (ltle did they know), but jt to razz me and get unr my sk which they did ways that were btally cshg.