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Contents:

• THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN
• THE GAY DETECTIVE (1961) KDLE EDN
• RICHARD LIPEZ, WHO REIMAGED THE GAY DETECTIVE NOVEL, DI AT 83
• GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS
• THE GAY DETECTIVE, LOU RAND
• INSTCT'S GAY MALE LEAD IS A BIG DEAL FOR CBS AND TELEVISN, BUT NOT TO THE SHOW
• THE GAY DETECTIVE NOVEL
• THE GAY DETECTIVE (143 RULTS)
• GAY MURR MYSTERY DETECTIVE BOOKS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THE GAY DETECTIVE: NICK AND NORM CHIGO

THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN

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!

THE GAY DETECTIVE (1961) KDLE EDN

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.

RICHARD LIPEZ, WHO REIMAGED THE GAY DETECTIVE NOVEL, DI AT 83

He was one of the very first mastream thors to wre about a gay tective—an surance vtigator named Dave Brandstetter. His wasn’t the first gay tective to h prt—that honor, I believe, belongs to Pharoah Love, a sexy, sassy Ain-Amerin police tective workg Manhattan, thored by Gee Baxt. His seven mysteri starrg gay Hispanic attorney Henry Rs foc a great al on the AIDS epimic and s effect on men, their iends, and their fai, and they n be heart breakg.

GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS

Mark Zubro also has a strong social nscience, but his books are leavened wh humor and a bg sarsm directed agast homophob and school admistrators, among other awful sorts. Schoolteacher Tom Mason and his lover (and eventual hband), baseball star Stt Carpenter, are amatr slths who solve crim and fight for jtice schools and gay neighborhoods, focg on muny, iendship, and fairns all thgs.

Zubro’s send seri foc on Pl Turner, an openly gay homici tective—a rary at the time of the first book, Sorry Now, published by St. Zubro has said that he created Turner to show another si of gay life: a voted father whose kids e first. Mart’s Stonewall Inn mysteri, helmed by gay edor Michael Denneny.

Mart’s was, as far as I know, the first mastream publisher to set up a gay imprt, wh Richard Stevenson, Grant Michaels, and Michael Craft among s stable of thors. It’s probably tellg of the mastreamg of gay culture that St. His sikick, a straight woman named Clarisse, starts out as a realtor and then go to law school, but she ntu to hold a torch for Daniel, who is most rolutely gay.

THE GAY DETECTIVE, LOU RAND

The culture of the gay bar is on display here, as well as what was like to live Boston the late 1970s and early 1980s. Those who are terted learng more n check out The Gay Male Slth Prt and Film by D. Together, the thors stched a quilt that reflected the diversy of gay experience.

As for me, I want to keep up the tradns, and I thk that Ang Green, the openly gay FBI agent at the center of The Next One Will Kill You, is a te scendant of those who have e before him. Reviewed the Uned Stat on October 6, 2012It's rare to fd gay themed books wh the hip lgo of the time, llg the olr gay men nti and the boys all swishg and llg everyone arie ("the Queen's Vernacular"). Post-Stonewall this kd of effemate homosexual was seen as stereotypil and rogatory but I thk que often they were jt havg fun.

A lispg private eye blows to town, hir a hunky si-kick and the two go all over gay L. Siar to many books of the perd, this book offers a guid tour hidn the story, advisg what to expect at a gay bar and at the baths, how to get a room, where to put your key, how to get "special massag" and Rand was obvly flamg and happy wh . He wrote this and one other book, The Gay Cookbook, also filled wh mp and nuendos.

INSTCT'S GAY MALE LEAD IS A BIG DEAL FOR CBS AND TELEVISN, BUT NOT TO THE SHOW

I enjoyed this story very much, by givg the tour to the sixti dience of what to expect a gay bar, the thor also reveals what such clubs were like at the time to .

It's a funny book wh a great picture of gay life at the time and more sex and s than was ctomary for books wrten 's a tective themed story and my plat would be the characters seemed one dimensnal.

Also I feel the hero looked down on the other gays, g them for his own vic and even shuttg down the gay clubs at the end whout a thought to his muny. Reviewed the Uned Stat on May 31, 2018I purchased a uple of ed pi of The Gay Cookbook (by this thor) a few years ago.

THE GAY DETECTIVE NOVEL

I put The Gay Detective on my wish list and figured I'd get around to buyg a ed, yellowed, vtage py somewhere along the way. I, myself, lived the Castro San Francis om '74 to '78 and already gay culture was evolvg though Lou Rand, the thor, was still alive and kickg around the cy for part of that time, havg died '76.

THE GAY DETECTIVE (143 RULTS)

But was still possible to meet olr gay men who rembled the Boys In the Band typ featured this tome.

This is on a par wh a gay universe.

GAY MURR MYSTERY DETECTIVE BOOKS

Is a fun time psule of gay culture San Francis and pulp fictn novels, general.

But you uld still be jailed, outed on the ont page of the newspaper and loose your job for beg gay so those guys wh "swish" paved the way and were tly brave men and soon proved to be a force to be reckoned wh at the Compton Cafeteria and Stonewall your md and heart to this time psule and you will surely love as much as I did. Sce was actually wrten by a gay man who, prumably, lived out and among some of the stereotyp picted, is hard to flt him.

The "gay" tective is not takg any crap om anyone and forc people to rpect him.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Impli, if don't actually show, attus toward gays at the time. The gay tective don't get laid, which is sad, but he do challenge the other characters' expectatns.

Reviewed the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 2017I rated this five stars for the simple who done plot said an early gay voice.

Intertg how the story evok the early gay lgo and illtrat the perceptn of gay culture om the straight pot of view.

THE GAY DETECTIVE: NICK AND NORM CHIGO

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTUnr the pen name Richard Stevenson, he sought to rrect crime fictn’s portrayals of gay characters as eaks or villas wh an entirely relatable Joe WheatonRichard Lipez, the thor of a seri of crime novels centered on an openly gay tective who, unlike the one-dimensnal pictns mon the genre the 1980s and ’90s, is not a tortured soul or a eak but a relatable character who is ntent wh his life, died on March 16 at his home Becket, Mass. Lipez bee Strachey, a gay tellectual, reprented the anthis of the stereotypil macho, Mr. Rather, he’s readg The Gay Communy News.

Lipez’s them, settgs and plots revolve around gay issu. In “Shock to the System” (1995), Strachey go unrver to vtigate a gay nversn therapy group.

Lipez was a eelance reviewer of mysteri for The Washgton Post for three s — he was irked that crime novels generally gave a lopsid view of gay characters, portrayg them as misfs and villas who often met an unpleasant mise. “The earlier pictns of gays and lbians had been of pathetic wretch, ice pick lbians, who were eher the masochistic killers or the pathetic victims or blackmail victims, ” he said a 1998 terview on NPR’s “Frh Air.