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- RYAN MURPHY IS MAKG A NETFLIX SERI ABOUT GAY SERIAL KILLER JEFEY DAHMER
- RYAN MURPHY IS MAKG A NETFLIX SERI ABOUT GAY SERIAL KILLER JEFEY DAHMER
- STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
RYAN MURPHY IS MAKG A NETFLIX SERI ABOUT GAY SERIAL KILLER JEFEY DAHMER
Nilsen also explas his tap that he realized he was gay when he was eight years old. Acrdg to his tap, he rigned due to homophobia the partment. Nilsen equented gay bars London’s Wt End and targeted naways, homels boys, dg-ers, and sex workers, acrdg to Netflix’s documentary.
It will follow the real-life se of gay serial killer Jefey Dahmer, who btally claimed the liv of 17 boys and young men between 1978 and 1991. Murphy’s treatment of the Milwkee Monster, acrdg to Deadle, will look at Dahmer’s story om the victims’ pots of view, siar to the style of the culmatg episos of Murphy’s 2018 FX drama, The Assassatn of Gianni Versace, which equent Murphy player Darren Criss sensively portrayed gay murrer Andrew Dahmer as his subject, Murphy may have a harr time fdg ways to humanize the prolific killer, whose methods of torture clud nnibalism, necrophilia, lobotomi, and dismemberment. Directed by Anthony Caronna and executive produced by Howard Gertler om Elon Green’s 2021 nonfictn book, “Last Call” pulls back the curta on the killg spree of Richard Rogers, a male nurse who, as far back as the 1980s and until 2001 when he was eventually ught by thori, targeted gay men New York and New Jersey.
RYAN MURPHY IS MAKG A NETFLIX SERI ABOUT GAY SERIAL KILLER JEFEY DAHMER
(Prr, 1973, he was acquted of killg his llege hoemate what he alleged was a f of gay panic. Beneath the grislier aspects tailed the seri — Rogers’ mod operandi volved dismemberment and strewg body parts around the Tri-State Area — is also an evotive snapshot of gay New York the early 1990s.
Rogers also picked up and murred Thomas Richard Mulhy, a married father of four who lived an unrver gay life and whose dghter reunts touchg memori of him.
There was also Michael Sakara, the mayor of Townhoe, who is warmly remembered by former employe of the bar and by his sister, who is also gay. In the harrowg send episo of “Last Call, ” which is primarily foced on Marrero and the fallout wh the unrground gay muny of his murr, one of Rogers’ alleged attempted victims speaks anonymoly about his bsh wh someone whose MO sounds closely like the killer’s. The NYPD’s often futile pursu of him across the years turns the seri to a documentary thriller s fal stag — futile also bee of the police’s own seemgly homophobic refal to take the murrs more serly.
STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
In a timely harkeng to recent ntroversi surroundg The New York Tim’ verage of trans people, “Last Call” touch on the bias at the Tim and other New York media outlets that emed Rogers (before his inty was known) as the “gay-slay” killer obvly bee had a tchy, if--bleeds--leads rhyme to . It turns out that the last place anyone saw Mulhy was an Upper East Si gay bar named The Townhoe, where olr, sophistited men met each other, or met younger men attracted to their type. Through extensive archival footage and terviews wh people who participated the AVP particular and New York’s gay scene general, we are remd of jt how dangero was for people who were jt beg themselv, ually via vlence perpetrated by people who ma a practice out of queer-bashg.
But the realy is brought home by the members of AVP and Edgar Rodriguez, a former NYPD sergeant and a member of the Gay Officers Actn League, who discsed the rampant and open homophobia the partment, which was so severe that Rodriguez knew was unsafe for him to e out while he was a p. This is illtrated a really tellg scene durg the terview wh the two Pennsylvania State Police, when the director asks them if he missed anythg durg the terview and one of them potedly says, “Why is the emphasis [of the terview] on the gay part? ” To them, the fact that Anrson was gay was irrelevant, but ’s important for a lot of reasons that they jt n’t wrap their mds around.
Though the men didn't know one another, all of them had one thg mon: They were last seen New York Cy, areas and bars equented by gay men.