I'm watchg their story on Behd Mansn Walls on the ID channel. Apparently, they were volved a gay relatnship. Nathan Leopold had a measured IQ of 210. But when I looked them up on the ...
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WHY DO PEOPLE THK LEOPOLD AND LOEB WERE GAY?
The story of two affluent gay teens who set out to m the “perfect crime”—and fail miserably…. Meanwhile hate crim, cludg murrs of gay, trans and non-bary people are on the rise.
One piece of evince prented by the prosecutn was a letter wrten by Leopold claimg that he and Loeb were havg a homosexual affair. Their lawyer, Clarence Darrow, untered by claimg his clients’ homosexualy proved they were sane and they should not be put to ath for their actns.
The 2002 film Murr by Numbers pulls back on the explic homosexualy but emphasiz the power dynamics—and power stggl—between the two leads. Aled Hchck’s 1948 film Rope, which is also based on the Leopold and Loeb se, is universally nsired to be one of his “gay films” along wh Strangers on a Tra. Sce the Hays Co ma impossible to show homosexualy on film, Hchck “gay dg” stead to portray that the two ma characters are not only iends, but lovers.