Jose menendez was he gay

Alongside longtime collaborator Ian Brennan, he and other key writing partners included multiple scenes where it's suggested the Menendez brothers were actually horny for each other, despite the whole brothers thing. That alone was horrific in just about every way possible, but what the show does in fictionalising this real life crime is equally horrific in a very different way.

Erik himself, the real Erik Menendez, has since released a statement from prison via his wife, Tammi that decries Murphy's decision to "undermine decades of progress in shedding light on childhood trauma". During his closing argument, he argued to the jury that Jose had not forced Erik into homosexual acts, but was in fact furious that Erik was gay.

Tears pouring down his face, Lyle described in detail what his father did and how Jose believed it was a way to bond with his sons. Prince Harry has released a statement over his 'heartbreak' following his trip to Angola without Meghan Markle. Read more: What happened to Lyle and Erik Menendez?

And what's worse is that these moments actually detract from the abuse that really did happen, something which is handled far more sensitively in other aspects of the show, such as that masterful long take in episode five. It happened on Sept. And rightly so.

The second episode includes a scene where Lyle, in his excitement, kisses Erik on the lips, and a short time later, Lyle gets between Erik and a woman who were dancing at a party, much to the intrigue and disgust of coked up onlookers nearby. He wrote: "It is sad for me to know that Netflix's dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surround our crime have taken the painful truths several steps backward — back through time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma differently than women.

During a tell-all interview with Barbara Walters , the real Erik responded to these rumours regarding his sexuality and how they related to the case: "No [I am not gay]. Even before The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story was released, a homoerotic poster for the show put the two brothers together in a pose more fruity than a bag of skittles.

The only thing Ryan Murphy loves more than casting twinks is baiting controversy. Suggesting two real-life brothers are incestuous lovers without any evidence to support that isn't great at the best of times, but when you consider that the pair were also victims of sexual abuse, conflating the two in a dramatisation of real events is pretty grotesque whichever way you look at it.

The prosecutor brought that up because I was sexually molested and he felt in his own thinking that if I was sodomised by my father that I must have enjoyed it and therefore I must be gay. Because both Lyle and Erik have asserted multiple times that they are in fact straight, dating and even marrying women before and during their respective prison stints.

As their bodies draw closer, Erik wipes powder from his brother's nose and then puts his thumb into his mouth. The Menendez brothers said José sexually assaulted them On August 20, , the Menendez brothers shot their parents inside their Beverly Hills home.

While Monsters does present the incest as one journalist's theory, scenes where the Menendez brothers touch each inappropriately are peppered throughout the season in ways that blur fiction and the reality this story is trying to adapt. Unwelcome connections between queerness and molestation, this outdated assumption that abuse and homosexuality are connected, isn't just a 90s relic if Monsters is anything to go by.

We had an obligation to show all of that, and we did. It was upsetting to hear, but I am not gay. But why risk perpetuating this outdated, painfully ignorant perception of gay men as predatory when there's no evidence these killers were even gay in the first place?

Just as the families of Dahmer's victims rallied against Murphy following the first season of Monster, the people involved in the real Lyle and Erik Menendez story are outraged too. But a lot of gay people write and feel connected to me. 11, , when Lyle Menendez took the stand for the first time, and alleged he and Erik were sexually assaulted by their father Jose Menendez.

We are presenting his point of view just as we present Leslie Abramson's point of view. Read more: Why is Monsters on Netflix so controversial? For his latest Netflix venture, TV's most prolific creator has hit a double whammy by including both in the second chapter of his Monster anthology series.

Deputy District Attorney Lester Kuriyama. The ways in which Monsters titillates using queerness, from that poster to the moment when Kitty walks in on her two sons showering together, just doesn't feel right given the subject matter. That first kiss scene has since gone viral with many viewers expressing their disgust very loud and vocally online.

Dynasty actress Joan Collins just proved you can wear mini-shorts at 92 in a new photo taken on her recent holiday to the south of France with her daughter Tara Newley. Because it's not just the titular monsters who suffer when shows like this cruelly warp the truth.

If the brothers were clearly incestuous in real life — and if they were definitely gay for that matter too — then there wouldn't be so much of an issue here. Lyle and Erik were convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder after a judge dismissed their claims because of a lack of evidence, and they were jailed for life without the possibility of parole in Murphy's adaptation rings true in this regard, but where Monsters runs into a big problem is in how it suggests the brothers were gay for each other, despite there being little to no evidence of that being true in real life.

During a interview with Barbara Walters, Erik clearly said that he was not gay, which contrasts with theories introduced during his first trial.