Contents:
- BT NOVELS WH A GAY ROMANCE AND CRIME SOLVG PLOT/SUBPLOT
- THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN
- GAY CRIME FICTN
BT NOVELS WH A GAY ROMANCE AND CRIME SOLVG PLOT/SUBPLOT
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.
THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN
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.
GAY CRIME FICTN
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. 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.
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