“American Horror Story: Cult” with a cast that LGBT+ fans will love
For six seasons, American Horror Story(AHS) has been awash in gay and lesbian characters and openly LGBT+ actors. The latest version, American Horror Story: Cult promises to be the same.
Although cast members were vague about the plot at August’s Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, some facts were revealed. Cult involves a lesbian marriage and is also about the 2016 presidential election.
"As with all good horror and suspense, knowing less is actually so much more because it's going to unfold for you," executive producer Alexis Martin Woodall told the Associated Press (AP).
“Though show creator Ryan Murphy has said Cult was inspired by the election of President Donald Trump, Woodall said the seventh self-contained installment in the American Horror Story anthology ‘is more about the world around us’,” according to the AP.
The cast for AHS: Cult includes actress Sarah Paulson. She doesn’t like labels, but has dated actress Holland Taylor for two years. Openly gay actors Cheyenne Jackson, gay heartthrob and actor Colton Haynes and gay actor Billy Eichner are also in the cast as is transgender actor Chaz Bono.
The AHS series is no stranger to LGBT+ actors and actresses, as well as gay icons. Each season is treated as a stand-alone mini-series. Many cast members return year after year, but play different characters in each season. Paulson, for example, has been a stalwart of AHS, appearing in all seven seasons.
The stunning Matt Bomer, who is openly gay, played a gay character in AHS: Hotel opposite gay icon Lady Gaga. Openly gay actor Leslie Jordan has appeared in several seasons, usually playing a stereotypical gay character. (What else would you expect?)
American Horror Story was created by the co-creators of Glee, but the shows have little in common besides that.
American Horror Story: Cult returns to FX on September 5 for 10 episodes.
Copyright 2017 The Gayly – August 31, 2017 @ 1:45 p.m. CDT.