"I also don't think that all gay stories have to be happy stories," the show creator said. "There was a moment on Netflix where they removed the LGBTQ tag from 'Dahmer,' and I didn't like it and I asked why they did that and they said because people were upset because it was an upsetting story."
The award-winning writer added: "I was, like, 'Well, yeah.' But it was a story of a gay man and more importantly, his gay victims."
Murphy also said he was happy about the sixth episode, which focused on Tony Hughes, a Black deaf man who was killed by Dahmer in 1991.
"There's a five-minute scene of three gay deaf men at a pizza parlor talking in sign language about dating, gay life, and how hard is it for them," he said. "I could not believe that I was getting the gift of putting it on television."
"It didn't happen like that," she said. "I don't see how they can do that. I don't see how they can use our names and put stuff out like that out there."
"I feel like they should have reached out because it's people who are actually still grieving from that situation," Banks said. "That chapter of my life was closed and they reopened it, basically."
In the New York Times profile, Murphy also hit back at the critics who said the series should not have been made in the first place.
The showrunner said that he wanted the series to shed light on the racism and homophobia in the case.
"It was the biggest thing I've ever seen that really sort of examines how easy it is to get away with things with the white privilege aspects," Murphy said. "What are the rules now? Should we never do a movie about a tyrant?"
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