A new ITV crime drama, The Long Call, will be the first Brish history to feature a gay, male tective as s lead.
Contents:
- BT GAY MYSTERY
- INSTCT'S GAY MALE LEAD IS A BIG DEAL FOR CBS AND TELEVISN, BUT NOT TO THE SHOW
- GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS
- FLEABAG STAR BEN ALDRIDGE TO PLAY GAY TECTIVE WH DADDY ISSU MAJOR NEW ITV THRILLER
- RICHARD LIPEZ, WHO REIMAGED THE GAY DETECTIVE NOVEL, DI AT 83
- GAY COZY MYSTERI
- A REISSUE HELPS REVIVE JOSEPH HANSEN'S SERI ABOUT A TOUGH, GAY TECTIVE
- GAY DETECTIVE COP BOOKS
- THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN
- THE LONG CALL VIEWERS APPLD ITV DRAMA FOR GAY TECTIVE LEAD ROLE: ‘THIS REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT’
- COMPLETE THE GAY DETECTIVE BOOK SERI ORR
- MOVI > GAY+TECTIVE MOVI
BT GAY MYSTERY
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INSTCT'S GAY MALE LEAD IS A BIG DEAL FOR CBS AND TELEVISN, BUT NOT TO THE SHOW
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Alan Cummg, Bojana Nojakovic; Instct Jeff Nmann/CBS "It's the first ever [work] drama on Amerin televisn to have a gay character as a lead, which I thk is an credible thg but also a terrible thg at the same time, " Cummg told reporters at the Televisn Crics Associatn wter prs tour Saturday. "It's another layer to the character that mak tertg to play, but socially and polilly, pecially the timg we fd ourselv Ameri, where gay people are beg persecuted aga, their rights are beg removed, and the print is actively ndong by his silence the vlence and persecutn of those the LGBTQ muny, I thk 's all the more important that we should have a character wh a healthy succsful same-sex marriage on work. ""I thk 's a big reason why [CBS] bought the pch, " Instct creator Michael Rch told TV Gui after the Instct panel, regardg the show's gay male lead.
"My thg om the begng, and I talked about wh Alan before we both signed on, is that even though this is a gay male lead, the show is not about that. It's not a show about gay marriage, 's not a show about beg a gay tective, we don't really al wh the obstacl much Season 1. "We're also a ltle show bee we have a gay male lead, which I thk is very non-mastream, " Rch tells TV Gui.
GAY DETECTIVE NOVELS BOOKS
Unr the pen name Richard Stevenson, he sought to rrect crime fictn’s portrayals of gay characters as eaks or villas wh an entirely relatable protagonist. * gay detective series *
(shelved 1 time as gay-tective-novels). A new ITV crime drama, The Long Call, will be the first to feature a gay, male tective as s lead.
FLEABAG STAR BEN ALDRIDGE TO PLAY GAY TECTIVE WH DADDY ISSU MAJOR NEW ITV THRILLER
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. * gay detective series *
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RICHARD LIPEZ, WHO REIMAGED THE GAY DETECTIVE NOVEL, DI AT 83
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTUnr the pen name Richard Stevenson, he sought to rrect crime fictn’s portrayals of gay characters as eaks or villas wh an entirely relatable Joe WheatonRichard Lipez, the thor of a seri of crime novels centered on an openly gay tective who, unlike the one-dimensnal pictns mon the genre the 1980s and ’90s, is not a tortured soul or a eak but a relatable character who is ntent wh his life, died on March 16 at his home Becket, Mass. Lipez bee Strachey, a gay tellectual, reprented the anthis of the stereotypil macho, Mr.
Rather, he’s readg The Gay Communy News. Lipez’s them, settgs and plots revolve around gay issu. In “Shock to the System” (1995), Strachey go unrver to vtigate a gay nversn therapy group.
GAY COZY MYSTERI
The Long Call viewers have appld the ITV drama for havg a gay tective played by Ben Aldridge the lead role. * gay detective series *
Lipez was a eelance reviewer of mysteri for The Washgton Post for three s — he was irked that crime novels generally gave a lopsid view of gay characters, portrayg them as misfs and villas who often met an unpleasant mise. “The earlier pictns of gays and lbians had been of pathetic wretch, ice pick lbians, who were eher the masochistic killers or the pathetic victims or blackmail victims, ” he said a 1998 terview on NPR’s “Frh Air.
A REISSUE HELPS REVIVE JOSEPH HANSEN'S SERI ABOUT A TOUGH, GAY TECTIVE
”He exempted om his crique the work of Joseph Hansen, who was among the first mystery wrers to create a major gay protagonist, though Mr. Lipez said, most portrayals of gay characters crime fictn were “a lie, and I want to help rrect that lie.
“Knock Off the Hat, ” a non-Strachey crime novel to be released posthumoly April, foc on a wave of gay-bashg 1940s a form of lerary payback, the bad guys some of his early novels were heterosexual (a pattern he would later break).
GAY DETECTIVE COP BOOKS
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THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN
Some of his Strachey novels were adapted to films for the gay ble channel Here!, but Mr.
THE LONG CALL VIEWERS APPLD ITV DRAMA FOR GAY TECTIVE LEAD ROLE: ‘THIS REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT’
Two new books are beg published posthumoly: “Knock Off the Hat, ” a non-Strachey crime novel about a wave of gay-bashg 1940s Philalphia; and his 17th Strachey novel, “Chasg Rembrandt. SeelyeA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 10 of the New York edn wh the headle: Richard Lipez, Author, 83; Ma a Gay Slth Relatable. Wh each new season, the seri has bee creasgly queer wh stori explorg pansexualy and what means to be gay or transgenr.
COMPLETE THE GAY DETECTIVE BOOK SERI ORR
Black Monday (Showtime)Inially about the events leadg up to the worst stock market crash history, the seri has expand beyond that, cludg more time spent the world of Andrew Rannells’ closeted gay character, Blair, who is a sham marriage wh Casey Wilson and havg a secret affair wh a polician played by Tuc Watks.
MOVI > GAY+TECTIVE MOVI
Dear Whe People (Netflix)The seri created by Jt Simien pulls the veil back on what many believed was a post-racial world followg the electn of Print Barack Obama, offerg sight to the Black experience as seen through the terlockg stori of several stunts, cludg buddg gay journalist Lnel (DeRon Horton), attendg the fict, predomantly whe Ivy League school Wchter Universy.
Heartstopper (Netflix)The Brish g-of-age seri adapted om the graphic novel of the same name by Alice Oseman tells the story of Charlie Sprg (Joe Locke), a gay schoolboy who falls love wh his classmate, Nick Nelson (K Connor). It's a S (Max)Spanng a startg 1981, the five-part seri created by Davi follows a group of gay iends -- Rchie (Olly Alexanr), Rose (Omari Douglas) and Col (Callum Stt Howells) -- and their straight girliend, Jill (Lydia Wt), as they go om chasg their dreams to fightg for survival a prejudiced society.