Gay characters crime fictn
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QUEER TE CRIME STORI OF THE PAST SHOW HOW THE PRS STOKED FEAR OF GAY MEN
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Max Gayn. Nighthawkg thor Rs Thomas go search of crime fictn's most memorable gay characters. When I first created DS Adam Tyler, the only thg I was sure of about him was that he would be gay.
Havg grown up the 1980s wh very few gay hero (i. So, homage to the pneers who were there long before me, here are five memorable gay characters om crime fictn that you might have missed.
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Dave Brandstetter Joseph Hansen’s Dave Brandstetter is a hero cut om tradnal cloth all ways but one – he’s openly gay (or homosexual; apparently Hansen hated the term gay). He’s a big bear of a man who breaks a lot of the early stereotyp for the way gay men are portrayed fictn. I gather he appears all 34 of the Delaware novels, om When the Bough Breaks (1985) right up to the latt, which, by my reckong, mak him the longt nng gay character a mystery seri ever.