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- 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
- NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
- HOW GAY MEN SAVED US FROM MPOX
- THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
- ALV BRAGG SILENT AS GANG OF KILLERS PREYS ON GAY MEN, LEAVG 2 AD AND A DOZEN ROBBED
- THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
- LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
- THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
- THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.
- NEW YORK CY GAY BARS
- THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
- THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
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
Richard Rogers, who would e to be known as the Last Call Killer, primarily targeted gay and bisexual men New York Cy the 1990s. * gay men new york *
Through extensive archival footage and terviews wh people who participated the AVP particular and New York’s gay scene general, we are remd of jt how dangero was for people who were jt beg themselv, ually via vlence perpetrated by people who ma a practice out of queer-bashg.
But the realy is brought home by the members of AVP and Edgar Rodriguez, a former NYPD sergeant and a member of the Gay Officers Actn League, who discsed the rampant and open homophobia the partment, which was so severe that Rodriguez knew was unsafe for him to e out while he was a p. This is illtrated a really tellg scene durg the terview wh the two Pennsylvania State Police, when the director asks them if he missed anythg durg the terview and one of them potedly says, “Why is the emphasis [of the terview] on the gay part?
NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
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In the HBO seri, “Last Call, ” the stori of the murred men are told poignant, tenr tail, unrsrg the strength of the gay muny of the era, and the btaly and vastatn bore for so many years. The New York Cy Police Department nfirmed Monday that is vtigatg a strg of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay men earlier this year shortly after they left gay bars Manhattan's Hell's Kchen neighborhood.
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His fay prevly told NBC News that approximately $20, 000 had been draed om his bank acunts and that they believed he was Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary / Fay photoAbout a month later, Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was found ad after he and two unintified men left another popular Hell's Kchen gay bar, the Q. Both health officials and the media failed to expedly warn and engage the gay muny the outbreak’s ccial first the first s were reported among gay and bisexual men the Wt, health thori and the media uldn’t brg themselv to say the word “gay.
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A gay man snng headl May of last year might have learned of an outbreak — but unls he had traveled to Wt Ai recently, or had ntact wh fected ronts or primat, he uld have easily nclud that he wasn’t at this sire to avoid stigmatizg gay and bisexual men was unrstandable, wasn’t helpful.
Cas began to appear a small handful of transgenr people and cisgenr women and children, raisg alarm about wir after was evint that this paful, potentially disfigurg or even fatal fectn was spreadg through gay men’s sexual works, public health officials and the media were hant to give the same advice they had given eely at the begng of the Covid panmic: Lim your number of sex partners and exprs your sexualy socially distanced while health officials and journalists hated, gay and bisexual men sprang to actn.
Thomas referred to as “tough love” advice for their muny: Slam the brak on sex outsi of mted relatnships; seek immediate medil re for symptoms; and get vaccated as soon as the gay muny party promoters nceled long-planned events and dividual gay men temporarily leted hookup apps om their phon and rced their sexual ntacts. The Centers for Disease Control and Preventn verified the shifts behavr, reportg that half of gay men surveyed rced their number of sex partners, one-time sexual enunters and e of datg apps durg the outbreak.
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And gay and bisexual men got vaccated drov; two-thirds of those surveyed by the Pew Rearch Center September 2022 reported that they had already received an mpox vacce or were planng to do so. Of the over one ln dos of the Jynneos vacce (protective agast smallpox and mpox) admistered the Uned Stat sce June 2022, more than 90 percent were given to men (prumably gay and bisexual men).
Spoke ankly about “back rooms” and “sex parti” and the risk of ntractg mpox those those warng gay men to cut back on sex until they were vaccated agast mpox experienced accatns of fomentg stigma — echog phback experienced by gay men who urged others to avoid bathho and start g ndoms at the start of the AIDS crisis the early 1980s — efforts to shoot the msenger were ls aggrsive than years past. /AIDS and mpox: Many of the msengers were gay and bisexual men themselv, cludg gay journalists, doctors and average cizens wh accs to social media, pl a generatn of gay men who had been spired to pursue public health reers the wake of C. Fur over the feral ernment’s ial rponse to mpox, they mobilized and anized, prottg at lol Department of Health and Human Servic offic and filg a plat wh the Massachetts state attorney general over nial of mpox ttg and while an early and ankly hont public health rponse uld have blunted the outbreak, rultg far fewer s and far ls sufferg, the swift llective actn of gay and bisexual men prevented tastrophe.
If the broar Amerin public had rpond to the threat of Covid-19 the way gay and bisexual men rpond to the threat of mpox, we might have seen fewer s (there have been 100 ln to date) and a lower ath toll (1. When the next fect outbreak strik (and surely will), the public would be wise to channel gay and bisexual men: munite openly whout stigmatizatn, anize and sist on accs to effective preventn, diagnosis and ’s another important lson about the gay muny that health officials and journalists need to remember gog forward: When to emergg health threats — even on that n spread sexually — gay men n handle the tth.
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Eher way, the MO of the latter killer seems le wh the Last Call Killer, who, acrdg to Elon Green’s Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York, preyed on gay men New York Cy the Eighti and Neti. Here seems even more real-life issu (and perhaps another killer) e to play, as The Native is a real paper that famoly reported on the AIDS crisis when mastream media ignored , and Go’s abductn mirrors the murr of film-dtry journalist Addison Verrill by radgrapher Pl Baton, famoly wrten up the Village Voice 1977 unr the headle “There’s Nothg Gay About Murr. A gang that preys on gay men at Hell’s Kchen nightclubs is spected of killg at least two victims and of dggg and robbg more than a dozen other men — but Manhattan District Attorney Alv Bragg’s office is impedg the vtigatn, law enforcement sourc say.
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Five weeks earlier, siar circumstanc, Brooklyn social worker Jul Ramirez, 25, was ptured by a secury mera leavg the Rz Bar and Lounge, a gay club on Wt 46th Street, two blocks om The Q NYC, wh three unintified men around 3:17 a.
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Hell’s Kchen and Chelsea offer the most “tradnal” gay bars and clubs, where visors n check out venu wh hunky shirtls bartenrs, a mostly-gay-male clientele, and thumpg hs gog late to the night. It’s a fun and totally ridiculo experience that’s like a gay Coyote Ugly llid wh a down-home honky-tonk, but the fact that Flamg Saddl don’t take self serly is exactly why ’s such a fun bar to go to, offerg an unpretent experience that’s pecially good for anyone visg a gay bar for the first time. Other mils wh queer them clu Come From Away, which clus the te story of Kev Tuerff and his partner, both of whom bee strand Newfoundland wh hundreds of others durg the 9/11 attacks, and The Book of Mormon, which often mocks relig bigotry agast gay people.
Amid the flurry of rabow-lan rporate logos, sponsored events and news ems about gay pengus, is difficult to turn on a televisn or set foot public durg June whout the remr that is Pri Month for LGBT and queer people. Gee Dudley, a photographer and artist who also served as the first director of New York Cy’s Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, documented scen om pri paras New York Cy om the late 1970s through the early ‘90s.
The years saw Ana Bryant’s homophobic csa through the “Save Our Children” mpaign 1977, the electn and assassatn of Harvey Milk 1978, and the Whe Night rts the followg summer after the lenient sentencg of Milk’s murrer, Dan Whe. In fact, the people who were most at risk – this se, gay men who met for hook-ups at New York Cy bars that served the muny – were given no staed or amplified warngs by eher the thori or the media, creatg a safe space for the murrer to ntue to wreak havoc.
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“Last Call,” by Elon Green, retrac the murrs of four men by a serial killer the 1990s, at a time when gay men felt prsured to hi their sexualy and were often the victims of homophobia. * gay men new york *
In fact, the se got so ltle attentn relative to s horror that today few remember , even wh the gay, three s after the murrs, journalist Elon Green has wrten a book tled Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York that go beyond the facts of the story to reveal the larger issu that surround them.
Between 1987 and 1994 the cy saw a greater number of killgs than any other stretch more than half a that benighted era, gay bars were often ‘the one refuge om the perils of everyday life’, says Green. In that same time ame, a close iend was gay-bashed to unnscns by a gang of young men, g a days-long stay the hospal, and I was punched so hard the stomach outsi a gay dance club I thought the guy mt have ed a hammer. Given a chance to acqu, they took ” the same time, Green said that he “ultimately realized that the killer (who was himself gay) was laborg unr the same societal nstrats his victims were.
Both victims — olr, whe-llar profsnal men, wh the heterosexual vtments of marriag and children — had last been seen at an upsle Midtown Manhattan gay piano bar lled the begs Elon Green’s terrific, harrowg, te-crime acunt of an elive serial killer who preyed upon gay men the 1990s, perfidly turng the safe havens of gay bars to huntg grounds, and semi-anonymo late-night hookups to an opportuny to kill wh impuny. The most prolific serial killers explo the vulnerabili of the social orr; the “Last Call Killer” took advantage of gay men’s need for discretn and the enmic homophobia of law enforcement.
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