And now, taking a similar path through darkness towards more darkness, comes My Friend Dahmer, an adaptation of Derf Backderf's graphic novel about the writer's experiences going to high school with Jeffrey Dahmer.įor those of us who came of age in the 1970s and 80s the specter of gay serial killers hung over our earliest comprehension of what it meant to be gay, like a disturbed prologue to the plague that came riding in on the heels of Gacy and Dahmer, two horsemen of a homosexual apocalypse. in his song titled after that serial killer, an attempt at finding some sort of empathy or a modicum of understanding buried beneath the front porch of a gay man's home turned graveyard. Sufjan Stevens sings that to the victims of John Wayne Gacy Jr. "Even more, they were boys, with their cars, summer jobs. And here's Jason Adams reporting again from the Tribeca Film Festival.
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