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Contents:
- 14 WTF AHS NYC PREMIERE MOMENTS: SERIAL KILLER TARGETS GAY MEN, EPIMIC LOOMS '80S NEW YORK
- AMERIN HORROR STORY RETURNS TO THE '80S WH A GAY SERIAL KILLER STORY SEASON 11 PREMIERE — GRA AHS: NYC!
- AMERIN HORROR STORY’S SEASON 11 CAST IS GAY AF
- ‘AMERIN HORROR STORY’ GO FULL GAY IN ‘NYC’
- AMERIN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW REP: WE’LL HAVE A GAY OLD TIME
- ‘AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC’ FALLY HAS A STRONG GAY MA CHARACTER
- ‘AMERIN HORROR STORY’: A VERY GAY SHOWSE
- NEW ‘AMERIN HORROR STORI’ PROMISE GAYS AND GORE
14 WTF AHS NYC PREMIERE MOMENTS: SERIAL KILLER TARGETS GAY MEN, EPIMIC LOOMS '80S NEW YORK
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Season 11 of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falch's horror anthology is fely light on the supernatural or science fictn at this pot, and stead seems to be focg on the real-life horrors of beg a gay man New York Cy the 1980s. Takg place 1981, there are two loomg threats to so many of the gay men who make up this season's st so far -- though some of them may be a part of the danger themselv.
The first threat seems to ht around the rners of the real HIV and AIDS crisis that slammed to the gay muny around this time, and was promptly ignored by everyone thory bee was seemgly enmic to that culture -- or at least that's what they wanted to believe. The other threat is much more immediate, as there is a serial killer lurkg the gay hot spots around the cy.
For his first trick, he dismembered an airle pilot who went to one of those unrground plac where gay men hooked up. This troduced to Patrick (Rsell Tovey), the closeted tective who is the only hope for the gay muny on the police force bee the rt of the ps really, really, aggrsively and vlently do not want to re about someone killg gay men. It uld even be that the weakened immune system of HIV is why the gay men uld wd up more sceptible to what we're gog to ll Covid-80.
AMERIN HORROR STORY RETURNS TO THE '80S WH A GAY SERIAL KILLER STORY SEASON 11 PREMIERE — GRA AHS: NYC!
Ryan Murphy's latt anthology seri, "Amerin Horror Stori," will brg back inic scen and characters wh lots of gays and gore. * american horror story gay old man *
It do seem that Murphy and his team are tryg to tap to somethg we all recently experienced, but filtered through this very real and sry time for gay men wh another largely unknown disease.
The first moment we got nfirmatn that Patrick was gay was when his boyiend Go (Joe Mantello) me home to him. Go is out and a journalist for a gay newspaper, The Downtown Native.
AMERIN HORROR STORY’S SEASON 11 CAST IS GAY AF
After beg acced of sexism -- which is fair if 's te they only wrote about issu gay men were ncerned wh -- our mds were a ltle blown at the mismatch of the two men this moment. The NYPD is tentnally refg to take this serial killer of the gay muny serly, and his own closeted way, Patrick is enablg and supportg that, for fear of jeopardizg his reer.
Gay men are danger and dyg, and the police do nothg and Patrick won't even help Go wh a potential story on . We do have to give Patrick cred, though, for livg openly wh a gay man while workg closeted for a homophobic NYPD.
‘AMERIN HORROR STORY’ GO FULL GAY IN ‘NYC’
The fal ma character who looks set to be the drivg force of this narrative is Adam (Charlie Carver), a young man alg wh a breakup who agre to go to another gay meetup place wh his roommate, this time unr a bridge and the nearby woods. Patrick ref to get directly volved wh the murrs, but he do tell Go to go to The Brownstone, another tablishment equented by gay men, and start askg qutns. "Homosexuals are sential to the natural orr of thgs, " he's told by the man who abducted him.
AMERIN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW REP: WE’LL HAVE A GAY OLD TIME
Adam cis to reach out to Go, but happens to do so jt as Go is puttg to bed his story about his own abductn, and the police distert pursug this real threat to the gay populatn.
Adam got picked up by the NYPD and locked a room wh four of them, cludg Patrick and his boss Mac (Kal Penn), who threw all kds of homophobic abe at him. For one, he told Go that he didn't know anythg about the gay leather culture, or the bandanna that they ed to dite what is that they're to sexually. On the surface, seems to be an exploratn of the gay culture New York the early 1980s jt as the HIV/AIDS epimic was gettg started.
‘AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC’ FALLY HAS A STRONG GAY MA CHARACTER
A list of all gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer characters Amerin Horror Story. This uld be a nod to shownner Ryan Murphy, who is himself an openly gay man.
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.
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. 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.
‘AMERIN HORROR STORY’: A VERY GAY SHOWSE
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.
NEW ‘AMERIN HORROR STORI’ PROMISE GAYS AND GORE
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.
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