Gay Detective Books

Contents:

• THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN
• GAY DETECTIVE BOOKS
• THE LONG CALL VIEWERS APPLD ITV DRAMA FOR GAY TECTIVE LEAD ROLE: ‘THIS REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT’
• GAY DETECTIV
• JAM GAY
• MOVI > GAY+TECTIVE MOVI
• GAY DETECTIVE COP BOOKS
• DETECTIVE SERI ABOUT GAYS

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!

GAY DETECTIVE BOOKS

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.

He was one of the very first mastream thors to wre about a gay tective—an surance vtigator named Dave Brandstetter.

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

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. 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.

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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.

JAM GAY

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.

MOVI > GAY+TECTIVE MOVI

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.

(shelved 2 tim as gay-tective).

GAY DETECTIVE COP BOOKS

Ben Aldridge plays gay Detective Inspector Matthew Venn the drama (Picture: Rex)The Long Call viewers have appld the ITV drama for havg a gay tective, a happy and lovg marriage no ls, at the centre of s story. Detective Inspector Matthew Venn, a gay man played by Ben Aldridge, leads the st. ‘Pl a primetime gay tective and his hband played by two out gay actors.

DETECTIVE SERI ABOUT GAYS

Echog a siar sentiment, another penned: ‘Thanks @AnnCleev a man the posive lead role and happy marriage that’s also gay. Thanks @AnnCleev a man the posive lead role and happy marriage that’s also gay.