Amerin Horror Story: NYC Fally Has a Strong Gay Ma Character

Contents:

• AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC IS THE GAYT SEASON YET, BUT IS ANY GOOD?
• IN "AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC" RYAN MURPHY IS OUT HERE MURRG GAY MEN AGA
• ‘AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC’ FALLY HAS A STRONG GAY MA CHARACTER
• THE GAY DOLLS

AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC IS THE GAYT SEASON YET, BUT IS ANY GOOD?

It was created by gay TV dtry in Ryan Murphy, who also wr for the show, and has featured appearanc om gay actors like Matt Bomer and Neil Parick Harris. Subtled NYC, the new stalment tak place the 1980s and chronicl a seri of murrs plagug the gay muny.

Posive: Amerin Horror Story has, somehow, never been gayer. Kickg off wh the beheadg of a closeted married man (lovely), the seri has never troduced this many leadg gay characters – and this is jt the first two episos.

IN "AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC" RYAN MURPHY IS OUT HERE MURRG GAY MEN AGA

Ratched’s Charlie Carver mak his AHS but as Adam, an openly gay man vtigatg the disappearance of his bt iend Sully (Jared Refeldt), while Isaac Cole Powell and Zachary Quto return as Theo, a photographer of gay mcle men who regularly attends bathho for anonymo hookups, and Sam, his manager slash and boyiend who’s seemgly unaware of his bathhoe pastime. Wh the gay serial killer narrative and all of the aforementned characters, Amerin Horror Story has never been this [limp wrist]; and this is a seri that has already been well-tablished as one of the queert TV history. Wh s 1981 settg, NYC mak a pot highlightg the lack of protectns for LGBTQ+ people durg this era, particularly gay men (so far).

The police aren’t dog much about the murrs, but they will harrass the gays who are tryg to raise awarens; one scene, Patrick is arrted by officers for promotg a new hotle and subsequently smacked around by (another) mcle man a jockstrap. Go, who is released by the killer episo two, explas his disda for the police partment the followg monologue to Patrick: “I’m trackg 30% crease vlence agast gay men the past two years, 17 beatgs and bashgs the last three weeks the village alone, and gus where there’s no e gog? The cy hat , and I know people Cy Hall and the NYPD, gay men, and some of them I know really well.

‘AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC’ FALLY HAS A STRONG GAY MA CHARACTER

While the first two episos have primarily foced on gay men, Barbara’s lbian gang mandg more regnn for queer women Go’s magaze shows promise for future episos: gay men weren’t the only members of the LGBTQ+ muny to be targeted the 1980s, and ’s ccial that NYC reflects this. This might be the se, as the send episo se Theo channel Zachary Quto’s Asylum character as he abducts a gay man and imprisons him his basement.

Surely one mcle man leather and a gimp mask butcherg gay men while highlightg the social nstrats of the era and the homophobia of the NYPD is enough storyle for one season?

But sadly, there’s not a lot of mp NYC eher which is nfg for a season that clus – bears repeatg – Patti LuPone’s vols on full display a gay bathhoe and a serial killer wh 12 abs nicknamed ‘Big Daddy’. Get ready to wer abject terror unr your blankets this tumn — but like, a gay way.

THE GAY DOLLS

Quto, who publicly me out as gay 2011, prevly appeared the Murr Hoe and Asylum seasons, wng multiple awards for his portrayals of both murrer and also played Louis Ironson the 2010 Broadway revival of the inic play Angels Ameri, makg pecially appropriate that he should appear this season of AHS alongsi Joe Mantello, who played the role the show’s 1993 Broadway but. Mantello, turn, was also a member of the 2018 Broadway st of The Boys the Band alongsi risg gay star Charlie Carver, who has also been nfirmed for AHS season 11 via an on-set kiss wh star Isaac Cole Powell, lately of Wt Si eleventh season of AHS will also reportedly feature bi edian Sandra Bernhard, a llaborator of Murphy’s who recently played Nurse Judy Kubrak on the FX h Pose.