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Contents:

• NETFLIX FANS HORRIFIED AS RYAN MURPHY DROPS FIRST TRAILER FOR HARROWG GAY NVERSN THERAPY DOCUMENTARY
• THE PROM’S RYAN MURPHY WAS TOLD ‘HE ULDN’T HAVE A SGLE GAY CHARACTER’ WHEN HE STARTED OUT TV
• RYAN MURPHY ON GAY MARRIAGE RULG: “FOR THE FIRST TIME I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO TLY BE AN AMERIN”
• RYAN MURPHY SLAMS NETFLIX FOR MAKG ‘DAHMER’ LS GAY
• RYAN MURPHY CLAPPED BACK AT COMPLATS ABOUT 'GAY PERVERT' CHARACTERS
• 'I MA GAY SIKICKS THE LEADS': HOW RYAN MURPHY CHANGED TV FOR EVER
• RYAN MURPHY’S (KDA) TE ‘HOLLYWOOD’ STORY: 1940S MEETS GAY STARS, INTERRACIAL ROMANCE AND (GASP!) A FEMALE STUD CHIEF
• SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE
• RYAN MURPHY TO BRG CONTROVERSIAL GAY PLAY ‘THE BOYS THE BAND’ TO NETFLIX

NETFLIX FANS HORRIFIED AS RYAN MURPHY DROPS FIRST TRAILER FOR HARROWG GAY NVERSN THERAPY DOCUMENTARY

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THE PROM’S RYAN MURPHY WAS TOLD ‘HE ULDN’T HAVE A SGLE GAY CHARACTER’ WHEN HE STARTED OUT TV

And Season 5, a hero-addicted man named Gabriel (Max Greenfield) was “gay raped” by a mon wieldg a spiked fluctuated wh s reprentatns of queerns on screen. “I hontly don't unrstand why llg that gay man a ‘buttmunch’ was such a sndal, ” Lange’s character, Dty Jackson, says to her granddghter as they de on ee pasta. That's what gays do: munch butts and celebrate Halloween!

”Lange, the two-time Osr-wng actor whose reer found new energy on televisn after appearg AHS, told BuzzFeed News at a prs panel that queer pop culture is “built- om the get-go” Murphy’s when asked how she felt beg touted as a gay in thanks to her work wh Murphy, she replied, “Wasn’t I before?

I’ve thk I’ve always been a gay in. He thanked award-wng gay actor Billy Porter, who prented Murphy wh his award while wearg a transcennt tuxedo gown, and trans actrs MJ Rodriguez, who broke barriers at last year’s (untelevised) Goln Glob as the first trans actrs to w a Goln Globe. Viewers were guid through the eveng by the year’s breakout gay edian, Jerrod Carmichael (“Rothaniel”), who hosted.

RYAN MURPHY ON GAY MARRIAGE RULG: “FOR THE FIRST TIME I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO TLY BE AN AMERIN”

" And gay TV wrer, producer and director Ryan Murphy — bt known for -creatg “Glee, ” “Pose” and the “Amerin Horror Story” anchise — was honored wh a lifetime achievement award. Here are some of the eveng's queert (and gay Twter meme-worthy) Carmichael apologiz to Jennifer Coolidge 'on behalf of all the gays'Jerrod Carmichael hosted the 80th annual Goln Globe Awards on Polk / NBCAs Carmichael troduced "The Whe Lot" actor and gay in, who was set to prent one of the bt supportg actg awards, he shared a msage. “As a gay man, I want to apologize to her on behalf of all of the gays for what we did to her on that boat, " he jokgly said.

Coolidge's character HBO's "The Whe Lot, " which won several awards Tuday, was the target of an unsuccsful h job by a group of evil "high-end" gays wh ti to the Italian mafia. ""In the early ghts, when my Black gay a-- cid to e out to Hollywood and try my luck at this film and televisn thg for the first time, I disvered on Day One that Hollywood wasn't havg all this Black boy joy, yet, " Porter, 53, said. At the start of his speech, Murphy, who is gay, asked the dience to give a standg ovatn to “Pose” star Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, who last year beme the first transgenr actor to w a Goln Globe.

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RYAN MURPHY SLAMS NETFLIX FOR MAKG ‘DAHMER’ LS GAY

Both have been relatively private when to their marriage, but the same year that they said "I do, " Murphy created a seri lled The New Normal, which followed a succsful gay uple who sire to have a baby. Although only lasted for one season, Murphy explaed that he wanted to pict the challeng that e wh tryg to have a child as a gay speakg wh Collir, he said, "The show is loosely based on my life, and the show me about bee my partner and I have been havg nversatns about surrogacy.

RYAN MURPHY CLAPPED BACK AT COMPLATS ABOUT 'GAY PERVERT' CHARACTERS

It’s not easy to be a gay uple havg a child, and we al wh those issu.

'I MA GAY SIKICKS THE LEADS': HOW RYAN MURPHY CHANGED TV FOR EVER

NETFLIX has dropped the first trailer for the Ryan Murphy documentary about a look to the horrifyg 'ex-gay' movement.

Pray Away follows the rise and fall of of Exod Internatnal, a group found the 1970s by five members of an evangelil church who said gay people n “pray away” their homosexualy to bee straight. 4The Netflix documentary Pray Away follows the rise of Exod - a relig group dited to 'ex-gay' therapyCred: Netflix.

Murphy - known for Amerin Horror Story, Pose and Glee - produced the powerful documentary alongsi Jason Blum and lifts the lid on the movement that sparked gay nversn therapy globally. Early reviews have heaped praise on the film wh the Hollywood Reporter scribg as a "soberg acunt of Christian terventn rooted toxic homophobia". 4The group purported to nvert gay and lbian people to sexualyCred: Netflix.

RYAN MURPHY’S (KDA) TE ‘HOLLYWOOD’ STORY: 1940S MEETS GAY STARS, INTERRACIAL ROMANCE AND (GASP!) A FEMALE STUD CHIEF

Murphy, who has a lucrative al to create new shows exclively for Netflix, reflected: “I grew up a system where if you had gay characters, let alone two of them, let alone that was sort of the thst of the story, you would be given five cents and a uple peanuts, and be told: ‘Good luck! “It felt like a very full circle moment for me bee I started off 1998 wrg for televisn, and the first thg I did, I was told I uld not even have a sgle gay character.

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

“I eply related to that, and I thought would be a wonrful film to make for Netflix, bee 200 ln people all over the world n see this film and see this msage, cludg untri where ’s agast the law to be gay, or you n actually be killed for beg gay. Ryan Murphy is among the mass of Amerins celebratg the recent Supreme Court lg on gay marriage. News, the creator of LGBT-driven shows such as Glee, The Normal Heart and The New Normal, wrote that Friday morng was a “happy endg” to the stggle gay and transgenr cizens have battled for years.

It’s a very emotnal moment, one I never thought as a ltle boy growg up gay and sred and isolated Indiana that I would ever have.

“And I am so proud of our Amerin televisn creators and stars like Ellen DeGener, Matt Bomer, Neil Patrick Harris, Max Mutchnick and Jill Solloway jt to name a few — who brought gay and transgenr moments and characters to hom and a very big way started the natnal nversatn that had a happy endg this morng.

RYAN MURPHY TO BRG CONTROVERSIAL GAY PLAY ‘THE BOYS THE BAND’ TO NETFLIX

"I only wrote or created shows that I really wanted to watch, so they evably had gay characters and trans characters and mori, " Murphy told The Guardian 2019.

"The only person likely to be shocked by the existence of a gay woman is some sort of ultranservative Christian, and I serly doubt there is any such person who watch AHS, " they said.

On the other hand, u/TwilightontheMoon plaly said, "I thk he do a bad job reprentg gay men. Rpondg to a siar cricism on Twter, however, Murphy replied, "I will always wre gay perverted addicts, sorry.