The Gay Detective: Homosexualy Crime Fictn - Crimal Element

Contents:

• GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS
• THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN
• MOVI > GAY+TECTIVE MOVI
• THE LONG CALL VIEWERS APPLD ITV DRAMA FOR GAY TECTIVE LEAD ROLE: ‘THIS REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT’
• DES 2000-DON STRACHEY MYSTERI: AN ACTUAL GAY DETECTIVE
• BEN’S “GAY” BREAKDOWN | “SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM”

GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS

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THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN

Many felt that was a negative portrayal of only a small sub-sect of the muny, thereby hurtg the ph of gay rights activism the 80’s. Through dark imagery and by utilisg actual gay S&M bars wh real patrons as extras, Freidk has unexpectedly provid an sight to a pre-AIDS sect of the gay world. Furthermore, Danny’s olr iend, Stty (Jim Broadbent), provis an sight to the days when beg gay was not only illegal the UK but actually was viewed as a disgrace wh MI6 and spy agenci.

MOVI > GAY+TECTIVE MOVI

Gay tective Donald Strachey (Chad Allen) is missned to protect gay activist John Rutka (Jack Wetherall), who is known for “outg” proment cizens.

A edy mystery web-seri that follows the explos of three gay bear roommat, Reggie (Rick Copp), Nelson (Ben Zook), and Wood (Joe Dietl), livg together Los Angel, as they attempt to solve the murr of a party gut that turned up ad their bathtub. After the myster mise of a client, private tective Donald Strachey filtrat a therapy group for gay people who want to bee straight. Donald Strachey is a gay private vtigator who learns of a lol school's cisn to chastise a lbian teacher for speakg openly about her sexualy.

This new stallment the popular and crilly-acclaimed Donald Strachey Mystery seri fds Ameri’s favore gay private vtigator, Donald Strachey (Chad Allen), takg on the most plited se of his reer. When iends, cludg mystery wrers, learned that I was pilg my list of the ten bt gay film mysteri, several exprsed surprise that I uld fd that many.

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

The new edn of my book The Gay Male Slth Prt and Film (Srecrow Prs, November 2012) lists some 130 tl for me to choose om, 1948-2011, this number cludg only films wh some kd of a gay vtigator. Then there are crime films which gays have rol other than as vtigators, but I cid to abi by the parameters I tablished for my book and elimated all films which homosexuals serve only as weak, hapls victims or as murro crimals.

One mt watch through historil lens (among other thgs, was the first time filmgoers heard the word “homosexual” a movie hoe), but largely bee of Bogar, still packs a punch. But Alex has been brought to the se by gay LAPD tective Milo Sturgis (Richard Masur), and, throughout, Milo, ironilly enough, provis psychic stabily for the volatilely obssed Alex.

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DES 2000-DON STRACHEY MYSTERI: AN ACTUAL GAY DETECTIVE

Historilly, the film is important for beg the first to have an openly gay police officer as s protagonist (Milo has a sendary role), but, admtedly, I am dulgg myself listg as one of the ten bt. Ohrt), a male chvist, through a tortuo cha of circumstanc ends up sharg an apartment and sometim a bed wh a gay r thief, Edgar Sänger (Tim Bergmann). § Screenplay by director Shane Black, based part on the totally non-gay novel Bodi Are Where You Fd Them (1941) by Brett Halliday.

Carter Page III (Woody Harrelson), an old-style Southern homosexual ridg the District of Columbia, be a problem when powerful terts try to manipulate a lobbyist’s murr to their advantage.

The heart of the film, however, remas Carter’s nontatn, like that of so many gay slths, wh the tth that the ultimate mystery is his own inty.

BEN’S “GAY” BREAKDOWN | “SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM”

Nor did any Italian film ma , spe the fact that the first openly gay private vtigator a major film was a meo role Dar Argento’s giallo thriller 4 mosche di velluto grig (Four Fli on Gray Velvet), 1971.

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! 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. 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.

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. 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.

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.

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. Tim were evolvg then, jt as they are still evolvg my experience back those days, one's own "gayns" was not talked about openly unls they had a sire to tell their story on Televisn. (Though, if the viewer tak to acunt the lole and time perd of the story, the le is actually rpectful of the person nsirg the place and time) Over My 46 years I've seen a lot of movi wh gay characters and the only one I ever rpected for that effort is "Victor/Victoria" (1982).