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Does 'American Sports Story' Overemphasize Aaron Hernandez's Sexuality?
I followed the Aaron Hernandez case about as closely as any NFL fan who wasn’t a Patriots fan. I knew the basics: he was convicted of murdering a close confidant and took his own life in his prison cell a few days after being acquitted in a separate trial for double homicide. Once he died, I stopped keeping up with new developments, and I sure as hell didn’t obtain any insights from Boston sports discuss radio, which distills all the racism and homophobia in Massachusetts into rage bait for the average Boston commuter.
That’s why it was surprising to glimpse Ryan Murphy’s American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez focus so heavily on Hernandez’s sexuality. In the first two episodes, Hernandez (played by Josh Andrés Rivera) is depicted having secret sexual encounters with a sky-high school boyfriend, experiencing panic over his father or teammates finding out he’s gay, and having both online and real-life hookups while attending the University of Florida. There’s even a scene where he fantasizes about a naked teammate in the locker room.
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Fiancee of late Aaron Hernandez speaks out on his sexuality after docuseries
The fiancee of the late Aaron Hernandez is speaking out for the first occasion since the release of a new Netflix docuseries on the life of the football-star turned-convicted killer, including rumors about his sexuality.
In a sit-down interview with ABC News' Amy Robach that will breeze Wednesday on "Good Morning America," Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez said that while Hernandez did not express to her in any way he may have been queer or bisexual, if he did, she "would not have loved him any differently."
Hernandez, a former Modern England Patriots tight finish, was found guilty of murder in April 2015 for the killing of Odin Lloyd, the 27-year-old fiance of Jenkins-Hernandez' sister, who was found shot to death in a suburb of Boston about two years earlier. After Hernandez's trial, and prior to his suicide in his prison cell in 2017, his alleged relationships with men became a topic of discussion.
"You can't describe someone's sexuality without them being here," Jenkins-Hernandez told ABC News. "Although I have a youngster with Aaron, I still can't tell y
'American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez' Is Literally Too Lgbtq+ To Function
After the first two episodes of American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, I questioned whether the show was placing too much emphasis on the former NFL tight end’s sexuality. After extensive analyze, I concluded that it was reasonable to consider the possibility that Hernandez’s internalized homophobia, along with the bigotry of his father and the broader sports culture, may hold played a role in where his life ended up. However, suggestions that Hernandez was gay were mostly speculative.
This week’s episode of the Ryan Murphy-produced series basically decided to say, “F**k it. Let’s recklessly play up the gay angle!” Yes, the man was raised in a violent home by a violent father in a violent culture, coached in college and the NFL by hard-asses who lacked compassion. But sure, let’s assert that Aaron Hernandez murdered a male, was implicated in several other murders, and took his own life because he might have been attracted to men.
Ryan Murphy has taken the story of a violent psychopath and turned it into a narrative about a gay man struggling with his demo
In Netflix’s docu-series, Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, one of Aaron Hernandez’s former teammates claimed he had a relationship with the fallen NFL star.
Dennis SanSoucie, who played football with Hernandez at Bristol Core High School in Connecticut, told the series that they had “an on-and-off relationship from the 7th grade to the junior year of high school.”
“When I met Aaron, it was like meeting your twin brother. It was so funny; we were both the same. He has dimples, we’re both ‘cheesy smile,’ all happy. He used to be able to construct everyone laugh,” SanSoucie said.
By 11th grade, the two had become “best friends” and even greater teammates — with SanSoucie as quarterback and Hernandez as secure end, the duo completed nine touchdowns within the first four games, according to The Boston Globe. Hernandez went on to catch 67 passes for a total of 1,807 yards, which was a Connecticut high school record.
SanSoucie recalled that on the first morning of school that year, Hernandez had gone over to his house, where they smoked “two blunts” and
The Killer Inside Director Explains How the Netflix Documentary Explored Aaron Hernandez's Sexuality
Somehow, the filmmakers behind Netflix’s Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, obtained most of the late Patriots close end's calls from the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center—which is where he was detained after being convicted for the murder of Odin Lloyd in 2015.
Killer Inside spreads the calls throughout the documentary's three episodes, from asking his wife to send him "Harry Potters" and saying goodnight to his daughter, to yelling at his estranged mother because he felt favor she hurt their family and wanted too much of his money. The calls give us our fullest see at Hernandez yet—a guy who could joke about how Nike wouldn't position a swoosh on an orange prison jumpsuit, even after the crime he committed.
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The new Netflix documentary, which is free to stream today, revisits the Lloyd murder, as successfully as Hernandez's alleged involvement in the 2012 double homicide of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado over a spilled drink. (He was found not guilty.) And, of course, what doctors found after Hernandez died of suicide in 2017