Ryan Murphy Defends Netflix Using LGBTQ Category Tag on DAHMER
. "I have a saying, 'My job as an artist is to hold up a mirror about what happened.' It's ugly. It's not pretty. Do you want to look at it? If you do, watch it. If you don't, look away, and sometimes, some of this outrage is directed at the frame of the mirror instead of the reflection."
Murphy continued, "I try and say, 'I really understand why you're upset about the inclusion of that. I understand it, but I also disagree with it personally.'"He also acknowledged that his own participation in the project was a major catalyst for the series' labeling. "I think that it got the tag, one, because of my involvement" he said. "I'm a gay man, so most of my stories deal with
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."has been at the center of—and not the first time Murphy has come to the show's defense.After the series was released in September, the families of
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