New 'Amerin Horror Stori' Promise Gays and Gore - OUT FRONT

Contents:

• AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC IS THE GAYT SEASON YET, BUT IS ANY GOOD?
• AMERIN HORROR STORY’S SEASON 11 CAST IS GAY AF
• IN "AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC" RYAN MURPHY IS OUT HERE MURRG GAY MEN AGA
• ‘AMERIN HORROR STORY’: A VERY GAY SHOWSE
• NEW ‘AMERIN HORROR STORI’ PROMISE GAYS AND GORE

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

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.

AMERIN HORROR STORY’S SEASON 11 CAST IS GAY AF

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.

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

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. 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.

‘AMERIN HORROR STORY’: A VERY GAY SHOWSE

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. Sure, she’s not gay, but the Tony and Grammy wner is a gay favore who has prevly appeared the Murphyverse AHS season 3 as well as Pose and tails about AHS season 11’s plot have been revealed, but set photos dite the show may take place around the 1970s-80s, the same general time perd as Murphy’s Stud 54: Amerin Crime Story, which is also productn. 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. 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.

NEW ‘AMERIN HORROR STORI’ PROMISE GAYS AND GORE

"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.