Books shelved as gay-tective-novels: Home Fir by Kate Sherwood, Soul Breaker by Clara Coulson, Reasonable Doubt by Gregory Ashe, Paterny Case by Gr...
Contents:
- GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS
- FAVORE GAY THRILLERS
- BT GAY MYSTERY
- BE GAY, DO CRIM: YA MYSTERY/THRILLERS STARRG LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS
GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS
(shelved 1 time as gay-tective-novels).
There isn’t enough space this article (or, ed, a rather long history book) to explore the long and shameful lerary history of amg gay characters as eher victims or villas. Fast forward through several s of margalizg gay voic or treatg gay romance as eroti, and the days, we’ve fally got mastream publishers wakg up to the fact that queer stori have a vast and growg dience, although we ntue to be bted to the outsized ntributns of small prs such as Bywater Books.
Of his but, Rs Thomas has wrten, “I had a gay protagonist long before I had a tective protagonist, ” and while this layed the path to publitn, bee for some absurd reason publishers ed to thk women on wanted straight hearthrobs—I subm to you as evince the ENTIRE world of fan fictn—by the time Thomas published Firewatchg, he did so to near-universal acclaim. Now, I’m close to fishg U Up?, her ice-ld sophomore novel of love and loss LA, and I’m rather annoyed at havg to stop readg to wre this blurb. In 1986 Los Angel, homophobia is an all-time high, and an ultra-nservative anizatn is ready to fan the flam of hatred wh a ballot iative to round up HIV posive Angelos and put them mps.
FAVORE GAY THRILLERS
The Savage Kd brgs a new meang to “Be gay.
Favore Gay Thrillers (621 books),. Favore Gay Thrillers.
BT GAY MYSTERY
actn, crime, danger, dark, gay, hostage, kidnappg, m-m-thriller, mm, murr, mystery, paranormal, psychos, serial-killers, spense, thrillers.
Bt Gay Mystery (832 books),. Bt Gay Mystery. assasss, cia, ps, fbi, fictn, gay, gay-romance, genre-fictn, glbt, lgbt, lgbtq, mercenari, mystery, paranormal, police, queer, romance, spi.
BE GAY, DO CRIM: YA MYSTERY/THRILLERS STARRG LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS
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.
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. 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.