'Amerin Horror Story’s Season 11 Cast Is Gay AF | Them

Contents:

• IN "AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC" RYAN MURPHY IS OUT HERE MURRG GAY MEN AGA
• ‘AMERIN HORROR STORY’ GO FULL GAY IN ‘NYC’
• AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC IS THE GAYT SEASON YET, BUT IS ANY GOOD?
• AMERIN HORROR STORY’S SEASON 11 CAST IS GAY AF
• AMERIN HORROR STORY RETURNS TO THE '80S WH A GAY SERIAL KILLER STORY SEASON 11 PREMIERE — GRA AHS: NYC!
• 14 WTF AHS NYC PREMIERE MOMENTS: SERIAL KILLER TARGETS GAY MEN, EPIMIC LOOMS '80S NEW YORK

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

In "Amerin Horror Story: NYC" Ryan Murphy is out here murrg gay men aga. The show's 11th season, set 1981, centers on a muny of gay men beg stalked and killed and is the only season to not feature Peters asi om Season 9, "1984.

‘AMERIN HORROR STORY’ GO FULL GAY IN ‘NYC’

Another whe guy stalkg and killg gays? When the tle and re st were revealed late September, didn't take difficult mental math to add up '80s Manhattan, Patti LuPone, Sandra Bernhard and Denis O'Hare to arrive at a general prumed theme that lands somewhere between "'Queer as Folk' if was set Hell" and "gays n lerally never tch a break.

"You're gay and you're about to be killed, " is about as old hat as "You're a woman and/or a person of lor and you're about to be killed. "AHS: NYC" even manag to make the season's only three lbians a sea of gay men to a punchle.

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

After beg immediately proposned for sex by one of his female flight attendants while standg the terr hallway of the hotel, the pta flash his weddg rg, polely refg, and then go to his room to put on full leatherman regalia and stt his way to a gay sex club.

"Yeah, I know what is, " Patrick says, reilg a way that immediately suggts he's gay and don't want anyone to know about . From here we're shown the many different ways a gay man n be killed, and the ease wh which the police, as the ignorant reprentativ for society as a whole, uld not re ls asi om g their aths as the set-up for a joke. Murphy, who I should mentn here is, himself, a gay man, and wrers Brad Falch and Manny Coto punch up gay panic "AHS: NYC" by workg not jt one killer, but potentially four.

Whely (Jeff Hiller), who is troduced towards the end of Episo 1 when he dgs Patrick's boyiend, Go (Joe Mantello) at a gay bar where he's vtigatg the murrs for his paper, The Native, and htl him to an awag r.

AMERIN HORROR STORY’S SEASON 11 CAST IS GAY AF

When Go pulls himself together the next day he reports the cint to the police, wh his p boyiend lookg on and pretendg to not know him, but 's ma clear yet aga that they are seemgly fe wh gays been beg murred and not likely to help at all.

Enlistg the help of Fran (Sandra Bernhard) and her two lbian iends who make up the cy's entire populatn of lbians this show, as well as Adam (Charlie Carver) another lol gay whose roommate got nabbed by "Big Daddy, " they jo together to get to the bottom of what's what. The handkerchief is a lor-d system om the 1970s ed by gay and bisexual men. The is more monly referred to as the hanky or bandana , but the show is right: started the 1970s as a way for gay and bisexual men to munite what they're seekg, their terts, and per the Sat Foundatn, supposedly started San Francis shortly after the gold sh.

AMERIN HORROR STORY RETURNS TO THE '80S WH A GAY SERIAL KILLER STORY SEASON 11 PREMIERE — GRA AHS: NYC!

Amerin Horror Story: NYC tak place the 1980s and centers around a serial killer who is targetg gay men. Unfortunately, the ps are dog nothg about , bee ’s the 1980s and they’re all pretty homophobic — except for Patrick (Rsell Tovey), a gay p who is the closet and do want to do somethg, but is still reluctant to expose himself to his bigoted peers, which, like, unrstandable.

Whely, but we do know he is a gay man who kidnapped Go and tortured him; he wears large aviator-style glass that rmble Dahmer’s; his hair is parted that same exaggerated si part; and he wears basilly the same exact striped-polo-shirt outf that Evan Peters did when he portrayed the serial killer Murphy’s te-crime show about Dahmer. The te-crime miseri told the story of serial killer Jefey Dahmer, who targeted gay men the 1980s. Arguably the signature acplishment of gay entertament mogul Ryan Murphy, who’s been behd some of the most acclaimed, ntroversial, and mpy programmg of our ntemporary era, ’s a show that has met all three of those scriptors – often at the same time – while brgg a legn of die-hard fans back for more each season.

We only brg up here bee for s latt stallment, which premiered wh two episos on FX last week, jt time for Halloween, “Amerin Horror Story” has gone “gayer” than ever. Tled simply “NYC, ” ’s set agast the backdrop of 1981 New York and foc squarely on the cy’s thrivg gay muny. As anyone wh even a basic knowledge of queer cultural history already knows, ’s a heady time and place for a gay man to be – but ’s also a time and place on the cp of soon-to-scend vastatn.

14 WTF AHS NYC PREMIERE MOMENTS: SERIAL KILLER TARGETS GAY MEN, EPIMIC LOOMS '80S NEW YORK

Instead, they’re facg a different kd of plague: a wave of grisly murrs, targetg gay men, has left a growg pile of dismembered bodi s wake, and to make matters worse, the NYPD seem unterted dog anythg about – or rather, most of them do. Meanwhile, somewhere the “gayborhood, ” a killer still lurks, and the body unt ntu to climb.

“NYC” – g as do at a time when anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and homophobic iologi make the hard-won advancement of our muny feel all too prer – is no different. This article origally appeared the Washgton Bla and is ma available partnership wh the Natnal Gay Media Associatn. Subtled NYC, the new stalment tak place the 1980s and chronicl a seri of murrs plagug the gay muny.