When iends, cludg mystery wrers, learned that I was pilg my list of the ten bt gay film mysteri, several exprsed surprise that I uld fd that many.
Contents:
- THE BT CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS OF GAY MYSTERY
- GAY COZY MYSTERI
- THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN
- GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS
- CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
- GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
THE BT CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS OF GAY MYSTERY
Inclus only thors wh new books published sce 2000. Gay Mystery = ma characters intify as gay male. Author n intify however ... * gay male mystery writers *
Gay Mystery = ma characters intify as gay male. 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.
GAY COZY MYSTERI
* gay male mystery writers *
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.
THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN
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. The Savage Kd brgs a new meang to “Be gay.
Gay Cozy Mysteri (61 books),.
GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS
Gay Cozy Mysteri. Bt Gay Mystery (832 books).
CLASSIC GAY MALE LERATURE
Bt Gay Mystery. assasss, cia, ps, fbi, fictn, gay, gay-romance, genre-fictn, glbt, lgbt, lgbtq, mercenari, mystery, paranormal, police, queer, romance, spi. I’ve read most of TJ Klune’s stuff and I want remendatns of books wrten by gay men, for gay men.
So if someone’s got some favore gay male thors out there, preferably wh semi-realistic romantic storyl (I don’t re what universe/creature/fantasy) and rnchy sex is appreciated too. Plakcy about the history of homosexualy crime fictn, and then make sure you're signed and ment below for a chance to w a py of The Next One Will Kill You! And before I wrote my first mystery featurg a gay tective, I read Joseph Hansen, Michael Nava, Mark Zubro, and Nathan Aldyne.
Jt as Christie, Sayers, and Gardner were among the pneers of the ntemporary mystery, Hansen, Nava, Zubro, and Aldyne were the lears rporatg gay characters to crime fictn. Their books opened doors to gay culture at a time when homosexualy was nsired a psychiatric disorr and a sure way to break a mother’s heart.
GAY AUTHORS BOOKS
He was one of the very first mastream thors to wre about a gay tective—an surance vtigator named Dave Brandstetter.