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. 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. 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.

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

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.

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

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. "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. 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 .

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

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. 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. 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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. The Last Call Killer, was nvicted of the murrs and dismemberment of two gay and bisexual men om 1992 to 1993. Subtled NYC, the new stalment tak place the 1980s and chronicl a seri of murrs plagug the gay muny.

AMERIN HORROR STORY AND THE BATMAN STARS SHARE GAY KISS SEASON 11 SET PICTURE

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

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).

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

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.

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?