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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
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BT GAY MYSTERY
* mystery books with gay protagonists *
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BT THRILLER FEATURG A GAY PROTAGONIST
Sometim, the gay element don't need to be the primary feature of the novel.
This list featur novels wh a good storyle which jt happens to have gay characters .
6 BOOKS WH GAY PROTAGONISTS
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. 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. 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.
BT NOVELS WH A GAY ROMANCE AND CRIME SOLVG PLOT/SUBPLOT
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.
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.