"Yes, I've been hearing a lot of stuff about how a lot of people feel exactly the way you feel," Berlinger told me. "As the series points out and what people are remembering is just how badly marginalized the gay community was during that time. Some of the people I have heard from are having flashbacks, like you, to how terrible that whole situation made them feel since it was on television every night because each day a new body or bodies were found in the crawl space beneath Gacy's home [in the Chicago area]. Then the trial started and became front-page news again."