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Contents:

• GAY DETECTIV
• THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN
• GAY MURR MYSTERY DETECTIVE BOOKS
• GAY DETECTIVE BOOKS
• A REISSUE HELPS REVIVE JOSEPH HANSEN'S SERI ABOUT A TOUGH, GAY TECTIVE
• THE LONG CALL VIEWERS APPLD ITV DRAMA FOR GAY TECTIVE LEAD ROLE: ‘THIS REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT’
• GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS
• FLEABAG STAR BEN ALDRIDGE TO PLAY GAY TECTIVE WH DADDY ISSU MAJOR NEW ITV THRILLER
• GAY DETECTIVE COP BOOKS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

GAY DETECTIV

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! He’s openly gay, or homosexual (Hansen apparently hated the term gay), and though he feels no need to announce to everyone he meets, he’s not ashamed of eher.

THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN

Firstly, like his ntemporary Delafield, he’s an actual p, an LAPD reer police officer (there seem to be far fewer male gay tectiv than female).

GAY MURR MYSTERY DETECTIVE BOOKS

He’s also a big bear of a man who breaks a lot of the earlier stereotyp (so often mysteri and thrillers the gay man is portrayed as a sleazy, sadistic baddie wh unwholome sexual predilectns).

So far, Sturgis has steadfastly avoid beg killed off (a rare skill for a gay supportg st member), which mt make him the longt nng gay character a mystery seri ever. Set 1980s San Francis, he’s unashamed to tackle the thornier issu of gay life—dgs, alhol and the AIDS crisis.

GAY DETECTIVE BOOKS

Hap Colls is the sensive, broodg workg-class labourer who avoids vlence at almost any st, while Leonard Pe is a gay black Vietnam veteran wh a vlent streak, who’s more than happy to shoot any man who unrtimat him.

A REISSUE HELPS REVIVE JOSEPH HANSEN'S SERI ABOUT A TOUGH, GAY TECTIVE

But ’s Leonard Pe who stands out as somethg special, a gay protagonist the mystery genre who breaks every stereotype the book. If there are few gay protagonists crime fictn, there are fewer still the annals of historil crime.

Gay Detectiv (16 books),. Gay Detectiv.

THE LONG CALL VIEWERS APPLD ITV DRAMA FOR GAY TECTIVE LEAD ROLE: ‘THIS REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT’

There have been gay characters Brish tective stori at least sce Agatha Christie, but gay or lbian vtigatg officers are harr to fd. brish, crime, tective, gay, lbian, lgbt, mystery, police, procral, queer, seri, whodunn.

A serial killer btally slays and dismembers several gay men New York’s S&M and leather districts. Many felt that was a negative portrayal of only a small sub-sect of the muny, thereby hurtg the ph of gay rights activism the 80’s. Through dark imagery and by utilisg actual gay S&M bars wh real patrons as extras, Freidk has unexpectedly provid an sight to a pre-AIDS sect of the gay world.

GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS

Furthermore, Danny’s olr iend, Stty (Jim Broadbent), provis an sight to the days when beg gay was not only illegal the UK but actually was viewed as a disgrace wh MI6 and spy agenci. Gay tective Donald Strachey (Chad Allen) is missned to protect gay activist John Rutka (Jack Wetherall), who is known for “outg” proment cizens.

“Third Man Out” is one of four film adaptatns of Richard Stevenson‘s books featurg gay tective, Donald Strachey. Equally tertg is how the story poss some moral issu wh the gay & queer muny wh regards to public outg, hypocr, and even abe. A edy mystery web-seri that follows the explos of three gay bear roommat, Reggie (Rick Copp), Nelson (Ben Zook), and Wood (Joe Dietl), livg together Los Angel, as they attempt to solve the murr of a party gut that turned up ad their bathtub.

FLEABAG STAR BEN ALDRIDGE TO PLAY GAY TECTIVE WH DADDY ISSU MAJOR NEW ITV THRILLER

Insurance vtigator Dave Brandstretter is unapologetilly gay, tough, and mascule, but also tenr. ” Published 1970, the book lnched a groundbreakg seri, the gold standard for ser gay crime fictn.

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.

GAY DETECTIVE COP BOOKS

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

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.

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

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.