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Contents:
- GAY COZY MYSTERI
- BT GAY MYSTERY
- BT THRILLER FEATURG A GAY PROTAGONIST
- 6 BOOKS WH GAY PROTAGONISTS
- GAY MURR MYSTERY DETECTIVE BOOKS
- BT NOVELS WH A GAY ROMANCE AND CRIME SOLVG PLOT/SUBPLOT
GAY COZY MYSTERI
* mystery books with gay protagonists *
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BT GAY MYSTERY
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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.
BT THRILLER FEATURG A GAY PROTAGONIST
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). 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. 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.
But ’s Leonard Pe who stands out as somethg special, a gay protagonist the mystery genre who breaks every stereotype the book.
6 BOOKS WH GAY PROTAGONISTS
If there are few gay protagonists crime fictn, there are fewer still the annals of historil crime. From gay tectiv to nonbary vtigators, the amatrs are on the Kelsey Christe McConnell | Published Nov 4, 2021Like any other genre and subgenre, zy mysteri are heavily domated by cisgenr heterosexual protagonists. But the world is so much more tertg and diverse than this undatn of homogeny would suggt.
While we wa for more of the reprentatn we serve to trickle to the genre, here are some great zy reads featurg gay, lbian, and transgenr amatr the GarnValor Tarqu Stt is more than jt the son of Earl and Counts Stt, he's the owner of The Gger's Bread, a biscu shop the Lake District.
Stumblg out of the only gay bar town, this llectn of bedazzled anti-hero is ready to get to the bottom of this dangero se.
GAY MURR MYSTERY DETECTIVE BOOKS
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. 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. The Savage Kd brgs a new meang to “Be gay. Idyll Threats: A Thomas Lynch Novel (1) Book 1 of 3: Thomas Lynch | by Stephanie Gayle | Sep 8, 20154.
BT NOVELS WH A GAY ROMANCE AND CRIME SOLVG PLOT/SUBPLOT
As a gay Lato fense lawyer 1980s San Francis, Henry Rs is termed to serve clients that his straight, whe lleagu refe to take on.