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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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But Dylan is gay and happily married to a gay man, which is unual to see on a work that has faced issu of diversy the past.

INSTCT'S GAY MALE LEAD IS A BIG DEAL FOR CBS AND TELEVISN, BUT NOT TO THE SHOW

Shockgly, Instct is the first hourlong broadst seri on any broadst work wh a gay lead.

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.

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"We're also a ltle show bee we have a gay male lead, which I thk is very non-mastream, " Rch tells TV Gui.

(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. Then there’s the hugely popular TV seri, Killg Eve, which saw s leads, Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) adm to romantic feelgs and share a kiss the season three fale, after prevly garnerg accatns of queerbag ntrast, gay male tectiv have been largely absent om Brish televisn, makg Aldridge’s upg performance a signifint step.

“As [ was] the UK’s first male gay tective on primetime I was rolute that we should st a gay actor, ” said seri director Lee Haven Jon on his move to st Aldridge.

FLEABAG STAR BEN ALDRIDGE TO PLAY GAY TECTIVE WH DADDY ISSU MAJOR NEW ITV THRILLER

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.

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RICHARD LIPEZ, WHO REIMAGED THE GAY DETECTIVE NOVEL, DI AT 83

Lipez’s them, settgs and plots revolve around gay issu.

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In “Shock to the System” (1995), Strachey go unrver to vtigate a gay nversn therapy group. 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. ”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.

A REISSUE HELPS REVIVE JOSEPH HANSEN'S SERI ABOUT A TOUGH, GAY TECTIVE

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). His gay characters were often wty and entertag and found themselv zany suatns; they were also plex, empathetic and ma mistak.

Some of his Strachey novels were adapted to films for the gay ble channel Here!, but Mr.

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.

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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. 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. Lookg (HBO)Told over two short seasons and a 90-mute film, Lookg is creator Michael Lannan's moody and darkly funny story about three gay men -- Patrick (Jonathan Groff), Agt (Frankie J.

THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN

Pose (FX)Co-created by Steven Canals, the groundbreakg seri follows the liv of Black and brown transgenr women and gay men of the 1980s New York Cy ballroom scene. Special (Netflix)Created by and starrg Ryan O’Connell, Special tells the story of Ryan, a gay man wh cerebral palsy steppg out om the protectn of his helipter mom to create a world of his own, which means movg out, makg new iends and fdg romance.

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

As Michael, Harris’ life is upend after his hband of 17 years (Tuc Watks) sudnly leav him and is forced to navigate New York Cy as a newly sgle gay man his mid-forti.

COMPLETE THE GAY DETECTIVE BOOK SERI ORR

When I created DS Adam Tyler for Firewatchg, I did so partly bee I wanted to create a fictnal tective who was gay.

MOVI > GAY+TECTIVE MOVI

There were gay protagonists (rare, but they did exist), and there were gay police officers (often send or third tier the hierarchy of characters), but I uld not thk of a sgle queer protagonist. He explicly stat that he isn’t homosexual, but his obssn wh Dickie Greenleaf, and his tenncy towards unreliable narratn more than suggt otherwise. I fd almost nceivable that there was one gay character at the helm of a mystery seri for over twenty years, and I only very recently disvered him!

He’s openly gay, or homosexual (Hansen apparently hated the term gay), and though he feels no need to announce to everyone he meets, he’s not ashamed of eher. Firstly, like his ntemporary Delafield, he’s an actual p, an LAPD reer police officer (there seem to be far fewer male gay tectiv than female). He’s also a big bear of a man who breaks a lot of the earlier stereotyp (so often mysteri and thrillers the gay man is portrayed as a sleazy, sadistic baddie wh unwholome sexual predilectns).

So far, Sturgis has steadfastly avoid beg killed off (a rare skill for a gay supportg st member), which mt make him the longt nng gay character a mystery seri ever. Set 1980s San Francis, he’s unashamed to tackle the thornier issu of gay life—dgs, alhol and the AIDS crisis. Hap Colls is the sensive, broodg workg-class labourer who avoids vlence at almost any st, while Leonard Pe is a gay black Vietnam veteran wh a vlent streak, who’s more than happy to shoot any man who unrtimat him.