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Contents:

• GAY DETECTIVE COP BOOKS
• COP DRAMA PRAISED FOR FEATURG GAY CHARACTERS AXED BY BBC
• GAY COPS
• GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS
• STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
• TO READ GAY POLICE PROCRAL
• FLEABAG STAR BEN ALDRIDGE TO PLAY GAY TECTIVE WH DADDY ISSU MAJOR NEW ITV THRILLER
• THE LONG CALL VIEWERS APPLD ITV DRAMA FOR GAY TECTIVE LEAD ROLE: ‘THIS REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT’

GAY DETECTIVE COP BOOKS

Brash humor and genue emotn make up this seri revolvg around the liv, lov, ambns, reers and iendships of a group of gay men and women livg on Liberty Avenue ntemporary Ptsburgh, PA. After beg dumped by his girliend, he to the realizatn that he is gay.

Freddie Thornhill (Sir Ian McKellen) and Stuart Bixby (Sir Derek Jabi) are an old gay uple who have been together for nearly fifty years. Gay lawyer Will and straight terr signer Grace share a New York Cy apartment.

COP DRAMA PRAISED FOR FEATURG GAY CHARACTERS AXED BY BBC

Their bt iends are gleeful and proud gay Jack and charismatic, filthy-rich, amoral sociale Karen. Outland foc on a gay science fictn fan club, and the dramas that surround the liv of s members, as they stggle and battle to assiate wh the troublg and very real world around them. The Lair is a private gay club n by vampir, who e the club as a source for attractive young men to feed om.

GAY COPS

A New York cy wrer and his iends traverse the gay world, explorg their ever-evolvg sexualy, relatnships, and what means to be a te iend. A groundbreakg gay adult drama which chronicl the liv of Stuart and Vce, as well as 15-year-old Nathan, who is love wh Stuart.

Explore the daily liv of Noah, Alex, Ricky, and Chance, four Ain-Amerin gay men Los Angel, through their relatnships wh their iends and lovers. Eight short monologu were wrten for this seri rponse to the 50th anniversary of the passg of the Sexual Offenc Act 1967, which crimalized homosexual acts private between two men aged 21 or over. A young man be attached to a fay that's not his own, and sts himself to the life of plentiful rich and gay love affairs for which he seems sted.

GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS

In 1985 Poland, Robert (Tomasz Zietek), a young police officer munist Warsaw, is termed to track down a serial killer preyg on gay men. Set 1962 California, follows a gay universy profsor grievg the loss of his partner and on the verge of makg a life-alterg cisn.

Based loosely on the life of openly gay Brish double agent Guy Burgs (Rubert Everett) who, durg his time at a boy’s school the 1930s, would disver romance and his Marxist beliefs. It’s 1968 and a group of gay iends gathers New York for a birthday party to celebrate their iend Harold (Zachary Quto). (shelved 1 time as gay-tective-p).

The new, gay Chucky TV seri end 's explosive and entertag first season recently, and then was renewed. The gay-as-hell mil seri about a high school drama partment starrg Olivia Rodrigo, Joshua Bassett, Larry Saperste, Frankie A. And yet, for s, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people rarely ever saw displays of affectn.

STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED

It may appear quat now, when we have TV seri like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latx teen explorg sexual fluidy) or Netflix’s Bondg (about sex work and alternative sexualy), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGener g out on her s 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necsarily nvce the works that they’d open the gat to LGBTQ experienc.

Luckily Will & Grace buted 1998 and the groundbreakg NBC seri nvced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t sre off advertisers) — so much so that Vice Print Joe Bin later creded wh changg his md about same-sex marriage. Dpe the fact that lns of Amerins wnsed two men raise a happy and healthy dghter om the fort of their livg room sofas, took a fan mpaign to lobby Disney-owned ABC to fally allow Mchell (gay actor Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (straight actor Eric Stontreet) to kiss ( fally happened 2010).

For years, ranged, perverse, and spible homosexuals were on full display — pecially om Ryan Murphy, who remas our most proment culture czar when to queer characters on TV.

TO READ GAY POLICE PROCRAL

But he’s also supplied at least one murro (ghostly) gay man on Amerin Horror Story and too many crazi on Nip/Tuck to unt.

From the Roy Cohn-flected Army-McCarthy heargs — which was the first time many people heard the word “homosexual” uttered on TV — through the “don’t ask, don’t tell” Neti, that clud The Goln Girls and Digng Women, to our current glter-and-glam era of RuPl’s Drag Race and almost-anythg-go pansexualy. In that way, ’s breakg siar ground to the Sundance Now seri This Close, om af actors Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman, about a straight woman and gay man who are bti lookg for love and unrstandg. And while the seri received as much hate mail as adoratn — an evable byproduct of beg the first show to have openly gay male lead characters — lasted eight seasons before endg 2006.

It was Cher-lovg Jack (Sean Hay) and alholic, right-wg sociale Karen (Megan Mullally) as much as Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Msg) that enared Amerins to the sassy s, wh l like: “Commandment number one the gay bible: Thou shalt not vet my ex’s ass. Adapted om gay director Jt Simien’s breakout film of the same name, about black llege stunts g to terms wh a “post-racial Ameri, ” the seri explor them of race, genr, and sexualy by skewerg jt about everyone for hypocrisy and double standards.

FLEABAG STAR BEN ALDRIDGE TO PLAY GAY TECTIVE WH DADDY ISSU MAJOR NEW ITV THRILLER

In the send season, he manag to evolve beyond simple trop and is given space to explore his queer inty, cludg havg his heart broken by Silv (a self-scribed “Mexin Italian gay vers top otter pup”), fdg a boyiend (of sorts), and even beg rejected by another black man bee of his sk lor — provg that, spe all the talk of “muny, ” ’s never easy to fe lastg bonds. The show plays to the gay-for-prison fantasy so many straight men seem to still harbor, but also shows how you n enjoy male-male timacy while also beg a harned badass.

When her straight male roommate’s twentysomethg girliend, Francis, qutns why Leila is so terrified to tell anyone that she has sex wh both men and women, Leila tells her ’s plited bee ’s “a gay thg. Thomas manag to upend nventnal storyl and tackl everythg om mental illns to gay-guy/straight-girl iendships to the g-out procs.

THE LONG CALL VIEWERS APPLD ITV DRAMA FOR GAY TECTIVE LEAD ROLE: ‘THIS REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT’

Matilda has high-functng tism, and some of the bt scen revolve around her explorg her fluid sexualy, while both girls embrace their gay half-brother’s relatnship failur as send nature. Pl, managed to change many nservative viewpots the black muny — cludg Timbaland, who crafted the seri’ tchy origal tracks — and was a rare moment which a gay character of lor had so much visibily.

The show, always handipped by expectatns would be the “gay Girls, ” never que found a large enough dience who tly embraced the sensive and slow-burng storytellg. An utter charmer about a gay, reverg addict edian (-creator Mae Mart) and a prevly straight teacher (Charlotte Richie) who fall eply, dangeroly love wh each other.