“I knew this was a very difficult story to tell, which is why I was afraid to tell it in the first place,” he says. That challenge isn’t lost on Caronna, who says the portion of the series that discusses Rogers’s sexual orientation “went through probably more iterations and any other section in the show,” as they knew how it might be received by those looking for even more reasons to marginalize the LGBTQ+ community. It’s a tricky thing, in 2023, to tell a story about a reportedly gay serial killer without inadvertently validating the increasingly homophobic far right. “Richard grew up hearing all of those things that the gay basher in episode one heard, that Anita Bryant heard, that we've all heard growing up in America.” “There's no question that this was that this is absolutely anti-gay violence,” Caronna says. ![]() According to Caronna, Rogers himself was motivated by anti-gay sentiments, even though it's widely believed that Rogers was gay. Using a vast amount of archival footage-including 1950s-era stranger-danger films from local police departments, 1990s talk show interviews with anti-gay figures, and political speeches from the times- Last Call illustrates how homophobia wasn’t only responsible for the investigation’s failings.
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