Be Gay, Do Crim: YA Mystery/Thrillers Starrg LGBTQ+ Characters

BT NOVELS WH A GAY ROMANCE AND CRIME SOLVG PLOT/SUBPLOT

Books shelved as gay-crime: So This is Christmas by Josh Lanyon, Madison Square Murrs by C.S. Poe, Secret at Skull Hoe by Josh Lanyon, Murr at Pira... * gay crime books *

There isn’t enough space this article (or, ed, a rather long history book) to explore the long and shameful lerary history of amg gay characters as eher victims or villas. 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.

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BE GAY, DO CRIME: 20 MT-READ LGBTQ+ CRIME NOVELS

Now, I’m close to fishg U Up?, her ice-ld sophomore novel of love and loss LA, and I’m rather annoyed at havg to stop readg to wre this blurb. 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.

GAY CRIME BOOKS

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THE THEORY THAT JTIFIED ANTI-GAY CRIME

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