It’s gone
Netflix has removed the LGBTQ tag on its new Jeffrey Dahmer series following a backlash.
The story of Jeffrey Dahmer has fascinated those interested in true-crime for years and now the horrific deeds of the serial killer are coming back into the limelight due the Netflix series, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
The series follows the infamous Milwaukee serial killer who murdered 17 people between 1978 and 1991 – many of whom were young, gay African Americans.
The fact it was categorised under Netflix’s LGBTQ has made many question wether it is the representation they are looking for.
One Twitter user shared: “No more jeffrey dahmer shows, he is being turned into an icon slowly and surely by people that think that his story needs to be told over and over again, its insulting and horrible not only to the lgbt community, but to all imo”
And it is overdone. No more jeffrey dahmer shows, he is being turned into an icon slowly and surely by people that think that his story needs to be told over and over again, its insulting and horrible not only to the lgbt community, but to all imo
— 20SeptumPenetration23 (@SeptumPenetrate) September 26, 2022
Another TikToker said she was ‘livid’ and ‘flabbergasted’ about the tag, highlighting that the show was tagged as both ‘LGBTQ’ and ‘Horror’.
Highlighting the LGBTQ tag, she said it ‘associates us with a literal serial unaliver, cannibal, amongst other things I’m not sure I can say on this app’.
She added: “Jeffrey Dahmer is not the queer representation that we want, asked for, need – nothing.”
As for the horror tag, she said: “I feel like horror implies a certain level of fiction and whimsy that is entirely non-existent and inappropriate for this situation.”
Another added: “If I need to stay in my lane absolutely tell me but anyone else think it’s pretty gross of Netflix to list Dahmer under LGBTQ, especially when the True Crime tag would have worked?”
Another quipped: “Guys my favourite LGBTQ series on Netflix is: Rupaul’s Drag Race, Dahmer, and Queer Eye.”
Meanwhile, some social media users disagreed:
#jeffreydahmer was gay, so were most his victims that he met at gay bars. The tag was actually for his victims. Any doco about attacks on our community have this tag. This story is part of our history. Who’s with me to get the LGBT tag back on the doco? @netflix
— Mac Mac (@battlecat107) September 25, 2022
Following the immense backlash online, it appears as if Netflix has now removed the tag.
JOE has contacted Netflix for comment.
Meanwhile, Dahmer’s dad thinks he knows what might be to blame for his son becoming a serial killer.
Although it is important to note at this point that this has not been backed up by any scientific evidence.
“You do know that pills are what started this whole thing,” Lionel says in the Netflix series.
“How many pills you think she was on when she was pregnant with him? Thousands. She was on sleeping pills, sedatives, seizure medication.”
Speaking about Joyce, Lionel added: “She never even held him. She scared the s**t out of him. And then she just left. She got in her car, she drove away, she left that kid in that house all summer.”
It appears the comments made in the series are in reference to an interview Lionel gave to CBS Inside Edition a few years ago.
“My ex-wife had been taking about 26 tablets of different medications about one month after becoming pregnant,” he said, before speculating about what potential effects this could have on an unborn child.
According to The Tab, he also blamed himself for not giving enough to Jeffrey emotionally.
He wrote in his book: “As a scientist, I wonder if the potential for great evil resides deep in the blood that some of us may pass on to our children at birth.”
Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is available to stream on Netflix now.
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- New documentary on America’s most notorious serial killer looks incredibly dark
- Netflix slammed for LGBTQ tag on Jeffrey Dahmer series
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