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...
Contents:
- BT NOVELS WH A GAY ROMANCE AND CRIME SOLVG PLOT/SUBPLOT
- BE GAY, DO CRIME: 20 MT-READ LGBTQ+ CRIME NOVELS
- GAY CRIME BOOKS
- THE THEORY THAT JTIFIED ANTI-GAY CRIME
- BE GAY, DO CRIM: YA MYSTERY/THRILLERS STARRG LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS
BT NOVELS WH A GAY ROMANCE AND CRIME SOLVG PLOT/SUBPLOT
* 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. 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.
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
Vote/add books featurg gay protagonists who are analyzg, vtigatg or helpg on elucidatg murr s. amatr-slth, crime, gay, gay-romance, gay-slth, killers, m-m, m-m-romance, m-m-spense, murr, murr-mystery, mystery, spense, thriller, whodun. Insurance vtigator Dave Brandstretter is unapologetilly gay, tough, and mascule, but also tenr.
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Gay and Lato, Nava’s fense attorney Henry Rs echo Brandstretter’s mixture of vulnerabily and hardboiled edgs. She’s a dited, sensive, and skilled tective, but she remas closeted orr to navigate the homophobic LAPD. If this is the sort of thg you like to dive to for whatever reason, check out the 20 mt-read “be gay, do crime” books a range of genr that are full of elaborate plans, queer characters, and a whole lot of revenge.
BE GAY, DO CRIM: YA MYSTERY/THRILLERS STARRG LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS
After beg outed by a raid on a gay bar, officer Evanr Mills is kicked off the force. (shelved 1 time as gay-crime).
When I created DS Adam Tyler for Firewatchg, I did so partly bee I wanted to create a fictnal tective who was gay.
There were gay protagonists (rare, but they did exist), and there were gay police officers (often send or third tier the hierarchy of characters), but I uld not thk of a sgle queer protagonist. He explicly stat that he isn’t homosexual, but his obssn wh Dickie Greenleaf, and his tenncy towards unreliable narratn more than suggt otherwise. I fd almost nceivable that there was one gay character at the helm of a mystery seri for over twenty years, and I only very recently disvered him!