Why did people think aaron hernandez was gay
The Killer Inside Director Explains How the Netflix Documentary Explored Aaron Hernandez's Sexuality
Somehow, the filmmakers behind Netflix’s Killer Inside: The Brain of Aaron Hernandez, obtained most of the slow Patriots tight end's calls from the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center—which is where he was detained after creature 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 transmit him "Harry Potters" and saying goodnight to his daughter, to yelling at his estranged mother because he felt like she hurt their family and wanted too much of his money. The calls give us our fullest look at Hernandez yet—a guy who could joke about how Nike wouldn't put a swoosh on an orange prison jumpsuit, even after the crime he committed.
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The new Netflix documentary, which is available to stream today, revisits the Lloyd murder, as well 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
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 ally and took his control 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 gain any insights from Boston sports talk 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 see 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 high school boyfriend/girlfriend, experiencing panic over his father or teammates discovery 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.
Given what’s publicly known about Hern
Aaron Hernandez Was ‘Flooded With Tears’ After Allegedly Telling His Mom About His Sexuality
As his life and trial starts to acquire reamped up by the new Ryan Murphy Hulu series, the specualitation around Aaron Hernandez’s sexuality is floating around again. Nearly a decade after his trial, the show seems to implicate that the New England Patriots compact end might have been gay.
The body of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd was discovered in an industrial park in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. All suspicions led to Aaron Hernandez and he was arrested at his house and charged with first-degree murder. The Patriots wasted no time in cutting ties with Hernandez. Within hours of his arrest, the team released him, effectively ending his NFL career. He pleaded not at fault and on April 19, 2017, he was start dead in his prison cell at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center.
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In American Sports Story, the first two episodes lean into the theory that Aaron was gay in his adolescence. Though there wasn’t a direct motive revealed dur
Fiancee of late Aaron Hernandez speaks out on his sexuality after docuseries
The fiancee of the belated Aaron Hernandez is speaking out for the first age since the let go of a recent 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 air Wednesday on "Good Morning America," Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez said that while Hernandez did not express to her in any way he may own been gay or bisexual, if he did, she "would not have loved him any differently."
Hernandez, a former Unused England Patriots compact end, was start guilty of murder in April 2015 for the killing of Odin Lloyd, the 27-year-old fiance of Jenkins-Hernandez' sister, who was set up 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 hold a child with Aaron, I still can't tell y
Hernandez was drafted to play as a tight end for the Patriots in 2010; in Killer Inside, one of the more compelling insights about that (somewhat rocky) transition into the NFL comes from former Patriots player Ryan O’Callaghan, who came out as homosexual in 2017. He points out that football is an almost perfect hiding place for many gay men. “My beard was football,” he says. “I relied on all the stereotypes of a football player — a lot of testosterone and the aggressiveness, hitting each other, things you assume middle America wouldn't reflect of as lgbtq+ men.”
Playing for the Patriots “was the best possible situation I could hold ended up in,” says O’Callaghan, because "there's no distraction. There's just an extreme focus on winning and nothing else really flies there — and for a closeted guy, that's great."
Hernandez excelled on the field but stayed away from building relationships with other Patriots players off the field. (Even in the later conversations in prison included in the documentary, he only talks to former University of Florida teammates.) Killer Inside — like the prosecutors at Hernandez’s murder trials — can’t answer exactly what prompted his crimes after he join