The Gay Detective: Homosexualy Crime Fictn - Crimal Element

Contents:

• GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS
• GAY MYSTERY SERI BOOKS
• BT GAY MYSTERY
• RICHARD LIPEZ, WHO REIMAGED THE GAY DETECTIVE NOVEL, DI AT 83
• A REISSUE HELPS REVIVE JOSEPH HANSEN'S SERI ABOUT A TOUGH, GAY TECTIVE
• THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN

GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS

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GAY MYSTERY SERI BOOKS

Fast forward through several s of margalizg gay voic or treatg gay romance as eroti, and the days, we’ve fally got mastream publishers wakg up to the fact that queer stori have a vast and growg dience, although we ntue to be bted to the outsized ntributns of small prs such as Bywater Books. Of his but, Rs Thomas has wrten, “I had a gay protagonist long before I had a tective protagonist, ” and while this layed the path to publitn, bee for some absurd reason publishers ed to thk women on wanted straight hearthrobs—I subm to you as evince the ENTIRE world of fan fictn—by the time Thomas published Firewatchg, he did so to near-universal acclaim.

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In 1986 Los Angel, homophobia is an all-time high, and an ultra-nservative anizatn is ready to fan the flam of hatred wh a ballot iative to round up HIV posive Angelos and put them mps.

BT GAY MYSTERY

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RICHARD LIPEZ, WHO REIMAGED THE GAY DETECTIVE NOVEL, DI AT 83

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTUnr the pen name Richard Stevenson, he sought to rrect crime fictn’s portrayals of gay characters as eaks or villas wh an entirely relatable Joe WheatonRichard Lipez, the thor of a seri of crime novels centered on an openly gay tective who, unlike the one-dimensnal pictns mon the genre the 1980s and ’90s, is not a tortured soul or a eak but a relatable character who is ntent wh his life, died on March 16 at his home Becket, Mass. Lipez bee Strachey, a gay tellectual, reprented the anthis of the stereotypil macho, Mr. Rather, he’s readg The Gay Communy News.

Lipez’s them, settgs and plots revolve around gay issu. In “Shock to the System” (1995), Strachey go unrver to vtigate a gay nversn therapy group. Lipez was a eelance reviewer of mysteri for The Washgton Post for three s — he was irked that crime novels generally gave a lopsid view of gay characters, portrayg them as misfs and villas who often met an unpleasant mise.

A REISSUE HELPS REVIVE JOSEPH HANSEN'S SERI ABOUT A TOUGH, GAY TECTIVE

“The earlier pictns of gays and lbians had been of pathetic wretch, ice pick lbians, who were eher the masochistic killers or the pathetic victims or blackmail victims, ” he said a 1998 terview on NPR’s “Frh Air.

”He exempted om his crique the work of Joseph Hansen, who was among the first mystery wrers to create a major gay protagonist, though Mr.

Lipez said, most portrayals of gay characters crime fictn were “a lie, and I want to help rrect that lie.

THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN

“Knock Off the Hat, ” a non-Strachey crime novel to be released posthumoly April, foc on a wave of gay-bashg 1940s a form of lerary payback, the bad guys some of his early novels were heterosexual (a pattern he would later break). His gay characters were often wty and entertag and found themselv zany suatns; they were also plex, empathetic and ma mistak.