In 1970, Hansen began a 12-novel seri about Dave Brandstetter, an surance vtigator who happens to be gay. Readg now, 's clear that Hansen was one of the great crime wrers of his time.
Contents:
- THE LONG CALL VIEWERS APPLD ITV DRAMA FOR GAY TECTIVE LEAD ROLE: ‘THIS REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT’
- GAY DETECTIVE BOOKS
- GAY DETECTIV
- THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN
- WHEN WRG ABOUT A GAY TECTIVE FELT 'LIKE I WAS WRG SCIENCE FICTN'
- A REISSUE HELPS REVIVE JOSEPH HANSEN'S SERI ABOUT A TOUGH, GAY TECTIVE
THE LONG CALL VIEWERS APPLD ITV DRAMA FOR GAY TECTIVE LEAD ROLE: ‘THIS REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT’
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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.
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GAY DETECTIVE BOOKS
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Director Lee Haven Jon prevly spoke to The Telegraph of the importance of stg a gay actor the part, which saw him land on Fleabag star Aldridge, who me out last year.
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THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN
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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.
WHEN WRG ABOUT A GAY TECTIVE FELT 'LIKE I WAS WRG SCIENCE FICTN'
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.
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.
A REISSUE HELPS REVIVE JOSEPH HANSEN'S SERI ABOUT A TOUGH, GAY TECTIVE
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. 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.