Was one of the menendez brothers gay

Find out what's fact and fiction in Netflix's 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story.'. Read more: Why is Monsters on Netflix so controversial? 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 brother aspects of the show, such as that masterful long take in episode five.

A teaser trailer for Netflix's series about Erik and Lyle Menendez shows them hugging in a very intimate way. But why risk perpetuating this outdated, painfully ignorant perception of gay men as predatory when there's no evidence these killers were even gay in the first place?

That first kiss scene has since gone viral with many viewers expressing their disgust very loud and vocally online. As their bodies draw closer, Erik wipes powder from his brother's nose and then puts his thumb into his mouth.

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.

In exploring the reasons behind the Menendez brothers gunning down their parents to death, the Netflix series suggests that one or both of the brothers may have been gay. Read more: What happened to Lyle and Erik Menendez? The only thing Ryan Murphy loves gay than casting twinks is baiting controversy.

What really happened in the Menendez brothers' murders and trials? It was upsetting to hear, but I am not gay. Did brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez have a sexual relationship? Alongside longtime collaborator Ian Brennan, he and other key writing partners included multiple scenes where it's menendez the Menendez brothers were actually horny for each other, despite the whole brothers thing.

Unwelcome connections between queerness and molestation, this outdated assumption that abuse and homosexuality are connected, isn't just a 90s relic if Monsters is anything to go by. 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.

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. 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. But a lot of gay people write and feel connected to me. We are presenting his point of view just as we present Leslie Abramson's point of view.

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.

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.

The theory was featured in Netflix’s Is mac gay always sunny limited series, which premiered in September Joseph Lyle Menendez (born January 10, ) and Erik Galen Menendez (born November 27, ), commonly referred to as the Menendez brothers, are American brothers convicted of ki.

That alone was horrific in just about every way possible, but what the show does in fictionalising one real life crime is equally horrific in a very different way. Even before The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story was released, a homoerotic poster for the show put the two the together in a pose more was than a bag of skittles.

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.

Interestingly, the creators of the show didn’t pull this theory out of thin air, and the question over the sexuality of the. During a tell-all interview with Barbara Waltersthe real Erik responded to these rumours regarding his sexuality and how they related to the case: "No [I am not gay].

Were the Menendez brothers gay? 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. We had an obligation to show all of that, and we did.