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Contents:

• THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN
• BE GAY, DO CRIM: YA MYSTERY/THRILLERS STARRG LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS
• FEATURED MYSTERY FICTN
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
• “MURDOCH MYSTERI” ON OVATN TV: BEG GAY POST-VICTORIAN ERA TORONTO [VIDEO]
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• A NEW PUBLISHG VENTURE REISSU GAY AND LBIAN CRIME FICTN OM 60S-90S
• GAY MURR MYSTERY PARTY

THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN

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. 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!

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.

BE GAY, DO CRIM: YA MYSTERY/THRILLERS STARRG LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS

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.

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.

FEATURED MYSTERY FICTN

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. Zubro has said that he created Turner to show another si of gay life: a voted father whose kids e first.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

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. 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.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

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. The slogan “Be gay, do crim” might have s origs tongue--cheek tweets and mem, but I thk one of the reasons why stck such a nerve wh dienc is bee anyone who’s queer knows that sometim jt beg yourself is a radil act our society.

Well, I thk ’s pretty amazg that the days we’re seeg more and more books that pture the full range of queer liv and experienc, beyond that mol gay person archetype that is, que ankly, borg. This is an outrageo and fun novel, and if you enjoy then fely pick up Roehrig’s Last Seen Leavg and Whe Rabb, which are two more great mysteri wh gay protagonists.

“MURDOCH MYSTERI” ON OVATN TV: BEG GAY POST-VICTORIAN ERA TORONTO [VIDEO]

Wrer Richard Lipez, which have been ma to a popular televisn movie seri starrg gay actor Chad Allen.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

The first published mystery book wh a gay slth as the lead character is believed to be 'The Heart Exile' (1953) by Hungarian thor Adam Mart Hegs, wrg unr the pen name Rodney Garland. The first Amerin murr mystery novel is believed to be 'The Gay Detective' (1961) by Lou Hogan (wrg unr the pen name Lou Rand). Homosexualy is a crime Mlim-majory Malaysia.

Rights groups have warned of growg tolerance agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr vios posted on social media late on Friday, Healy was seen kissg bassist Ross MacDonald after cricisg Malaysia's stance agast homosexualy a profany-lan speech to the ftival dience. Not as easy as looks" was cricised for kissg a male fan at a 2019 ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also has laws agast homosexual acts, media reported.

While last year was the year of great gay thrillers, this year brgs somethg wholly unexpected: the rise of queer ral noir, blendg well to the folk horror revival (’s an athetic). In classil noir, the homosexual—thk Joel Cairo The Malte Faln or A.

A NEW PUBLISHG VENTURE REISSU GAY AND LBIAN CRIME FICTN OM 60S-90S

Geiger The Big Sleep—was a margal character and the subject of ridicule and ntempt…Dick [Lipez] claimed he created [his tective Don] Strachey bee he wanted to prent a gay man as ntented and not tortured…[Strachey] parts om the tradnal noir PI that he is emotnally well-adjted, relatively sober, has a lovg pann and foil Timmy Callahan and is part of a vibrant muny, Albany’s gay muny.

GAY MURR MYSTERY PARTY

Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History.

Bad Gays reflects a turn towards more plited queer stori, fictn and nonfictn, as reprentatn mov beyond the heroic towards somethg more realistic and tertg.