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Contents:

• AMERIN HORROR STORY RETURNS TO THE '80S WH A GAY SERIAL KILLER STORY SEASON 11 PREMIERE — GRA AHS: NYC!
• IN "AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC" RYAN MURPHY IS OUT HERE MURRG GAY MEN AGA
• AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC IS THE GAYT SEASON YET, BUT IS ANY GOOD?
• ‘AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC’ FALLY HAS A STRONG GAY MA CHARACTER
• 14 WTF AHS NYC PREMIERE MOMENTS: SERIAL KILLER TARGETS GAY MEN, EPIMIC LOOMS '80S NEW YORK
• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

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

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.

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

The Last Call Killer preyed on gay men New York Cy the Eighti — and he seems to be an spiratn for Ryan Murphy's latt season of the horror show. 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.

Whely is a Vietnam veteran who killed gay men g New York Cy gay clubs as huntg grounds, earng him the moniker 'Mai Tai Killer'. Richard Rogers, a gay man and surgil nurse at New York’s Mount Sai Hospal, nvicted for the murrs of Thomas Mulhy (a name that is referenced the show) and Anthony Marrero 1992 and 1993, rpectively but he is spected of other killgs. Whely tortur GoWhely at Dr Well's officeWanted man flyerStalkg AdamWhely attacks GoTeasg PatrickWhely phon PatrickWhely beheadg his victimWhely the elevator wh Daniel and CameronWhely attacks the menTorturg Daniel and CameronAbout to kill agaWhely 1979Butcherg BillyA nversatn over the danger gay men faceA phone-ll om Velvet TouchAttackg HenryAbductg HenryWhely explas his reasongWhely gets killedMai Tai Killer Dead headle.

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

Wh the two-part opener, fans have learned that the season will ver a myster serial killer targetg gay men Lower Manhattan cir 1981, as well as an unknown illns fectg Fire Island er, and eventually the LGBTQ prev seasons, Amerin Horror Story: NYC pulls subtle and overt spiratn om classic films and real-life serial killers, while also cludg nods to famo nspiracy theori. In 2001, Richard Rogers, a gay man and surgil nurse at New York’s Mount Sai Hospal, was fally arrted for the murrs of Thomas Mulhy and Anthony Marrero 1992 and 1993, rpectively. After the murr received ltle attentn the mastream prs, Verrill's iend and Village Voice journalist Arthur Bell wrote a piece llg out the media and the police's apathy toward the murrs of gay men.

Ernment may be behd potential epimic seems to be an analogy for the early days of the AIDS crisis, when the disease was dismissed by the media and ernment officials as the "gay plague. PARI DUKOVIC/FXThe NativeThe newspaper where Go works is named after the New York Native, a real-life biweekly publitn that vered the gay muny NYC between 1980 and 1987. It was the only gay newspaper the cy durg the early part of the epimic, and s medil wrer, journalist and physician Lawrence D.

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

Theo's character uld take spiratn om the renowned photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who drew ntroversy for his llectn of work examg NYC's gay male BDSM subculture the late '60s, early ' LuPone's SongsThough we didn't know who the Broadway legend would play this season, there was a near-guarantee she would sg.

Government experimentatn on LGBTQ+ people and Operatn Paper ClipEpiso 3, "Smoke Signals, " begs wh Fran layg out her theory for Hannah, which match the mon nspiracy theory that the CIA knowgly and tentnally jected homosexual and Black muni wh the AIDS vis wh the tent of harm (the ernment has actively tried to dispel this theory).

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

In real life, there is one known se where a member of the LGBTQ+ muny was experimented on g state funds, one that also served as spiratn for an earlier season of 1970, Robert Galbrah Heath, chair of Tulane Universy's psychiatry and nrology partment, nducted a seri of experiments signed to "turn" a gay man straight. However, Detective Mulhey did not take his statement serly and Patrick, once aga, is torn between his job and his inty as a gay man. 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.

LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

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. 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.

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.