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Contents:
- MEN OF THE MEAN STREETS: GAY NOIR
- BT "DARK" GAY CHARACTERS
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- A GAY MYSTERY NOVELIST WHO CHRONICL THE AFTERMATH OF AIDS
- LGBTQIA: GAY FICTN & LERATURE
MEN OF THE MEAN STREETS: GAY NOIR
* gay noir novels *
1, 730 reviews54 followersSeptember 8, 2015This is an anthology of gay mystery stori wh a noir twist. It wasn't tly gay eher more m/f and lbian.
BT "DARK" GAY CHARACTERS
The protagonist of the story is hired by an openly gay Catholic prit, Father Robert Bryce, to fd the fah which was stolen om him. The protagonist don't give much rmatn about himself: we know that he se ghosts, that he's gay and that he's had a walk wh the vil.
He checks at a motel and spends a night at the bar of a bowlg alley where he meets Taylor Harkns, the only gay boy town.
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
I appreciated very much the subtle humor of the story and the atmosphere, but I thk the fact that I knew I was readg a Gay&Lbian anthology spoiled the twist at the end of the book. He n't tst almost anyone: not the spect he's tryg to discharge om the murr of his gay lover; not his lawyer who seems too timate wh him. Anthologi my-wrg queerAuthor 176 books5, 051 followersAugt 20, 2011An uneven but generally entertag anthology of gay crime and mystery stori llected unr the ever popular and creasgly misunrstood umbrella term of "noir" ( his tro Edor Greg Herren tri to nvce that noir is, fact, whatever one believ to be).
Gay noir?
However, Herren and Redmann clearly had their reasons for cludg - maybe beg wrten by a gay thor is creria enough? While last year was the year of great gay thrillers, this year brgs somethg wholly unexpected: the rise of queer ral noir, blendg well to the folk horror revival (’s an athetic).
A GAY MYSTERY NOVELIST WHO CHRONICL THE AFTERMATH OF AIDS
In classil noir, the homosexual—thk Joel Cairo The Malte Faln or A.
Geiger The Big Sleep—was a margal character and the subject of ridicule and ntempt…Dick [Lipez] claimed he created [his tective Don] Strachey bee he wanted to prent a gay man as ntented and not tortured…[Strachey] parts om the tradnal noir PI that he is emotnally well-adjted, relatively sober, has a lovg pann and foil Timmy Callahan and is part of a vibrant muny, Albany’s gay muny. Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History. Bad Gays reflects a turn towards more plited queer stori, fictn and nonfictn, as reprentatn mov beyond the heroic towards somethg more realistic and tertg.
The tective on the se, a gay woman who fds the ral settg stiflg, is dog her bt to track down the missg girl, but secrets kept by fay and iends keep gettg the way.
LGBTQIA: GAY FICTN & LERATURE
Particularly well-realized are the girl’s iends, Lewis and Ronnie – Ronnie wants to fd her iend, and Lewis knows somethg about , but the town’s homophobia and his secret iendship wh a popular kid prevent him om tellg what he’s seen.