{"id":1778185,"date":"2022-12-16T19:33:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T00:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778185"},"modified":"2022-12-16T19:33:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T00:33:25","slug":"its-ugly-its-not-pretty-dahmer-series-creator-says-he-disagrees-lgbtq-series-movies-should-be-about-uplifting-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-ugly-its-not-pretty-dahmer-series-creator-says-he-disagrees-lgbtq-series-movies-should-be-about-uplifting-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Ugly. It\u2019s Not Pretty\u2019: \u2018Dahmer\u2019 Series Creator Says He Disagrees LGBTQ Series\/Movies Should Be About Uplifting Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-ugly-its-not-pretty-dahmer-series-creator-says-he-disagrees-lgbtq-series-movies-should-be-about-uplifting-themes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778185&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cDahmer\u201d series creator Ryan Murphy said he disagreed with the idea that LGBTQ series\/movies should be about uplifting topics in response to a backlash over his initial inclusion of the L.G.B.T.Q. tag on his show.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy, who created the hit Netflix series about serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/tv\/news\/dahmer-ryan-murphy-evan-peters-backlash-lgbtq-tag-1235456098\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a> he understood why people weren\u2019t happy when the platform first used it, but said as a gay man he doesn\u2019t agree with them. Following the backlash, Netflix removed the LGBTQ tag from \u201cMonster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story\u201d because \u201cpeople were upset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people in the community want to uplift,\u201d Murphy explained. \u201cI understand that. It\u2019s [Netflix series] about homophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In a rare interview and photo shoot for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Variety<\/a>&#8216;s SAG Contenders issue, Ryan Murphy &#038; Evan Peters discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DahmerNetflix?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DahmerNetflix<\/a>&#8216;s incredible success, the length process and all the backlash that followed.<\/p>\n<p>Full story + photos by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dandoperalski?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dandoperalski<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ltZIRDeAPp\">https:\/\/t.co\/ltZIRDeAPp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emily Longeretta (@emilylongeretta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilylongeretta\/status\/1602340249782190081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a saying: \u2018My job as an artist is to hold up a mirror about what happened,&#8217;\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s ugly. It\u2019s not pretty. Do you want to look at it? If you do, watch it. If you don\u2019t, look away, and sometimes, some of this outrage is directed at the frame of the mirror instead of the reflection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try and say, I really understand why you\u2019re upset about the inclusion of that,\u201d Murphy continued. \u201cI understand it, but I also disagree with it personally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the series creator said he thought the tag was included because of his involvement as a gay man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that it got the tag, one, because of my involvement,\u201d Murphy shared. \u201cI\u2019m a gay man, so most of my stories deal with some sort of LGBTQ thing and I do that selfishly; when I was growing up, I had nothing [to look to]. My mission statement has been to talk about those stories and those characters and unearth buried history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murphy previously responded to reports that the show was \u201cexploiting\u201d trauma suffered by the \u201cvictims\u2019 families,\u201d as The Daily Wire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/its-cruel-victims-family-member-not-happy-about-new-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-documentary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The series creator said he wanted to tell the story in part to shed light on the racism and homophobia in the case that he believed were pervasive.\u00a0The prosecutor who secured Dahmer\u2019s conviction, former Milwaukee County District Attorney Michael McCann, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dahmer-prosecutor-blows-up-netflix-narrative-claiming-cops-ignored-black-gay-victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disputed this claim<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The series focuses on serial killer, Dahmer, played by actor Evan Peters. Dahmer murdered 17 people from the 70s until the early 90s, as previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/its-cruel-victims-family-member-not-happy-about-new-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-documentary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dahmer-series-creator-says-he-was-upset-over-lgbtq-tag-removal-says-its-a-story-about-gay-man-and-his-gay-victims\">\u2018Dahmer\u2019 Series Creator Says He Was Upset Over LGBTQ Tag Removal, Says It\u2019s A Story About \u2018Gay Man\u2019 And \u2018His Gay\u00a0Victims\u2019<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDahmer\u201d series creator Ryan Murphy said he disagreed with the idea that LGBTQ series\/movies should be about uplifting topics in response to a backlash over his initial inclusion of the L.G.B.T.Q. tag on his show. Murphy, who created the hit Netflix series about serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, told Variety he understood why people weren\u2019t happy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1659987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9799,6153,6202,7863,6550,5331,9795,8612,9798,9796,9797,9800,6195],"class_list":["post-1778185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-dahmer","tag-creator","tag-daily","tag-disagrees","tag-its","tag-lgbtq","tag-pretty","tag-series","tag-series-movies","tag-themes","tag-ugly","tag-uplifting","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1659987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}