Meet the Queer Cast of 'Amerin Horror Story: NYC' - Gayety

Contents:

• 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: NYC IS THE GAYT SEASON YET, BUT IS ANY GOOD?
• ‘AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC’ FALLY HAS A STRONG GAY MA CHARACTER
• IS BILLIE LOURD’S HANNAH GAY IN AHS: NYC? (& PREGNANT WH ADAM’S BABY?!)
• AMERIN HORROR STORY RETURNS TO THE '80S WH A GAY SERIAL KILLER STORY SEASON 11 PREMIERE — GRA AHS: NYC!
• AMERIN HORROR STORY AND THE BATMAN STARS SHARE GAY KISS SEASON 11 SET PICTURE
• AMERIN HORROR STORY SEASON 11 COULD BE GAYT YET, HERE’S THE CAST
• ‘AMERIN HORROR STORY’ GO FULL GAY IN ‘NYC’

AMERIN HORROR STORY’S SEASON 11 CAST IS GAY AF

Amerin Horror Story: NYC tak place the 1980s and centers around a serial killer who is targetg gay men.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

IS BILLIE LOURD’S HANNAH GAY IN AHS: NYC? (& PREGNANT WH ADAM’S BABY?!)

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.

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

"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 AND THE BATMAN STARS SHARE GAY KISS SEASON 11 SET PICTURE

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 first two episos of Amerin Horror Story season 11 explore the emergence of a serial killer targetg gay men tertwed wh the te story of the begng of the AIDS epimic. Amerin Horror Story season 11, subtled NYC, tak much of s story om real-life fears, nspiraci, and jtic agast the gay muny New York Cy the early 1980s. As the bodi of gay men turn up, Detective Patrick Read works wh his reporter boyiend Go to unver the tth behd the unknown killer.

AMERIN HORROR STORY SEASON 11 COULD BE GAYT YET, HERE’S THE CAST

In addn to Ryan Murphy’s cln of real-life stutns and events related to the AIDS epimic 1981 New York Cy, AHS season 11 also seemgly tak spiratn om the te story of a serial killer who preyed on gay men.

New York's Fire Island was notable the 1980s for beg a haven for the gay muny, wh HIV/AIDS strikg the area particularly hard. However, the early disvery and tn surroundg AIDS were nnected to Fire Island, as anizatns were formed there to spread awarens about the disease, raise money, and support the gay muny amidst wispread panic.

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

As the epimic began to be reported on, more panic was created as publitns highlighted s prevalence among gay men.

Amerin Horror Story season 11 character Go works as a reporter for the Native, a proment gay publitn New York Cy. The paper’s medil wrer Lawrence Mass had lled the CDC about the spread of the illns, wh the anizatn tellg him the mors of the “gay ncer” were unfound. As suggted Ryan Murphy's TV show, the Native was still ially ld for s reportg on the AIDS epimic durg a time when the media was largely ignorg , and was succsful makg the gay muny aware of the disease.

Ernment created HIV/AIDS orr to m genoci on Black, Hispanic, and gay populatns. In Amerin Horror Story season 11, the gay muny is beg terrorized by a serial killer (possibly two), wh a large man donng a leather mask stalkg victims while another man dgs his targets wh Mai Tais. Remiscent of the Last Call Killer, a real-life New York Cy serial murrer who targeted gay men the 1980s.