Serial killer nyc gay bars

More than three decades after a serial killer began preying upon gay and bisexual men at bars in New York City, the victims and their families, as well as the activists who fought to bring the elusive murderer to justice, are the subjects of a serial docuseries that premieres Sunday on HBO and Max.

Rogers Jr. He was sentenced to life in prison in Shepherd guided the producers through the major people and events in the second half of the 20th century that shaped public attitudes nyc LGBTQ people, including the AIDS epidemic. In NovemberRogers was found guilty in a New Jersey court in the stabbing deaths of Thomas Mulcahy, a year-old computer salesman who was visiting New York City gay business in Julyand Anthony Marrero, a year-old Puerto Rican sex worker who was last seen in May Although he was never convicted because of a lack of evidence, Rogers is also suspected of having killed at least two others: Peter S.

Anderson, a year-old Philadelphia investment broker whose dismembered remains were found in Pennsylvania in Mayand Michael Sakara, a year-old typesetter whose remains were found in New York in July Inbar he was attending the University of Maine as a graduate student, he stood trial in the murder of his roommate, Frederick Spencer, with a hammer.

He claimed self-defense and was acquitted. In Augusta year-old Manhattan man told police that Rogers had drugged and attacked him. Rogers was acquitted in a nonjury trial a few months later. Confronted with the ethical dilemma of not wanting to retraumatize the people who lived through that era while not pulling any punches in their reporting, the producers said they felt it was important to be upfront about their intentions and to let their subjects control the flow of the interviews, especially because killers of them have seldom sat down to discuss their advocacy work or their memories of their loved ones.

Gertler singled out a dinner scene with the Marrero family at the end of the second episode, in which older, more conservative family members are trying to figure out how to talk about Anthony with two younger and openly queer relatives, as an example of the constructive conversations that can come out of revisiting this dark period of LGBTQ history.

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‘Righteous anger was a part of it’: the shocking story of New York’s gay bar killer

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