Based on Elon Green’s novel of the same name, ‘Last Call’ illuminates a largely ignored true crime story from New York’s gay scene in the early 1990s.
Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York.About a year later, Caronna warmed up to the idea of adaptingLast Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York.“Howard said that when he read it, he felt like there was a real opportunity to tell a social justice story and use true crime as this Trojan horse to bring people in—people love true crime—and then tell a much bigger story about the anti-queer violence movement.
According to Green, who is also an executive producer on the show, the result is a four-part series that builds significantly on his book about the crimes ofof killing and dismembering two men between 1992 and 1993, and suspected of killing at least five others. Green says that the show took what was essentially a history of New York’s gay scene in the early 1990s and made it relevant to today. “It's not just a view of the past,” Green says, “but it's also so of the moment.
It’s also the story of a case that, other than a newspaper article here or there, was largely ignored until Green wrote his book. “It's the kind of thing where if you squint, you can see exactly why this didn't generate any press,” Green says, citing the AIDS epidemic and New York’s high crime rate at the time. “And of course, it didn't help [that] the victims were presumed to be gay.
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