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Richard Rogers famously known as The Last Call Killer was a serial killer who is said to have killed at least two bisexual and gay men. He was active between 19where he would lure men from piano bars in Manhattan and proceed to kill them. Herbert Richard Baumeister (April 7, – July 3, ) was an American businessman and suspected serial killer who came under suspicion of murdering over a dozen men in the early-to-mid s, most of whom were last seen at gay bars in central Indiana.

Here are four gay serial killers that evaded detection in part because of homophobia. John Wayne Gacy. In , year-old John Wayne Gacy was arrested for the murder of year-old Robert Piest.

But it wasn’t all drag queens and rainbows in the City by the Bay, and when the bodies of gay men started turning up one after another, fear spread like wildfire and it got harder and harder to distinguish rumor from fact. The HBO docuseries Last Call digs into the hunt for a serial killer who targeted gay men in New York in the early '90s—and why these victims were almost lost to history.

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 four-part 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 toward LGBTQ people, including the AIDS epidemic.

In November , Rogers 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 on business in July , and 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 May , and Michael Sakara, a year-old typesetter whose remains were found in New York in July In , while 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 August , a 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 many 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. Max Gao is a freelance entertainment and sports journalist based in Toronto.

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