The Gay Detective: Homosexualy Crime Fictn - Crimal Element

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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.

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Books shelved as gay-mystery-seri: Fatal Shadows by Josh Lanyon, Among the Livg by Jordan Castillo Price, Vern by Nathan Aldyne, Deja vix by D... * gay detective book series *

(shelved 1 time as gay-mystery-seri). (shelved 1 time as gay-tective-novels).

Bt Gay Mystery (832 books).

Bt Gay Mystery.

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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... * gay detective book series *

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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.

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Books shelved as gay-tective-p: Two Hundred Bon by Meg Perry, Three Thoand Mil by Meg Perry, Natural Predators by Neil S. Plakcy, Subdug Ryan... * gay detective book series *

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.

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The Savage Kd brgs a new meang to “Be gay. (shelved 1 time as gay-tective-p).

Victorian Gay Detective (3 book seri) Kdle Edn.

THE GAY DETECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALY CRIME FICTN

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And before I wrote my first mystery featurg a gay tective, I read Joseph Hansen, Michael Nava, Mark Zubro, and Nathan Aldyne. 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.

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

He was one of the very first mastream thors to wre about a gay tective—an surance vtigator named Dave Brandstetter.

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.

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