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From Dog Day Afternoon to The Handmain, the are 10 of the bt thrillers wh lbian, gay or transgenr them.

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GUNNSHOTS: TOP 10 GAY CRIME FILMS

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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 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. The Gay Male Slth Prt and Film.

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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. Supreme Court led stat had the right to crimalize same-sex relatnships and Cardal Joseph Ratzger (the prent Pope Benedict XVI) nmned any church support of the “homosexual ndn.

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Henry Maglena (Matthew McQueen) vtigat the murrs of a seri of gay porn stars. 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).

9 Dead Gay Guys.

Hate Crime: Directed by Tommy Stovall. Wh Seth Peterson, Bce Davison, Chad Donella, Cdy Pickett. Robbie and Trey are gay, middle-class, suburban profsnals. Life is good. Until the son of a fundamentalist preacher mov next door." data-id="ma * gay movie crime *

He fds stead that Byron is a small-time htler — gay for pay. The film received the dience award at the Dubl Gay & Lbian Film Ftival. Private vtigator Perry Van Shrike, aka Gay Perry (Val Kilmer).

I hated to clu the film my top list sce Perry is the only open gay sight. § 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.

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