By Drewey Wayne Gunn Though there have occasionally been speculation about the sexuality of such private investigators as Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe and even Philip Marlowe, the first indisputably, openly gay detective was Francis "Frank" Morley, the hero of Lou Rand’s appropriately named 1960 novel The Gay Detective. Newly arrived in “Bay City” (i.e., … Continue reading Down These Mean Streets A Gay Man Must Also Go
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Duffy
Created by Dan Kavanagh Pseudonym of Julian Barnes And now, we proudly present the cheeky bi-eye... DUFFY is an ex-cop who runs a one-man detective agency. Oh yeah, and he's a swinging bi-sexual too. In the self-titled series opener from 1980 he's hired to find out who is blackmailing a man whose wife was recently … Continue reading Duffy
Jake Lieberman
Created by Stephen Lewis Pseudonym of Teri White (1946 --) JAKE LIEBERMAN is the entire staff of Confidential Investigations, Unlimited, located for your convenience on the third floor, right beside Madame Magna, the Jewish-gypsy fortune teller, of an rundown office building on Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles. In his first, and so far only recorded … Continue reading Jake Lieberman
A Queer Eye for the New Eyes
A 2013 Essay by Josh Lanyon Josh Lanyon, award-winning author of the Adrien English mysteries series, turned a queer eye on the P.I. back in 2013: the old, the new, and the up-and-coming in gay crime fiction. Dated? Yes, but still worth reading. Maybe one day Josh will give us an update... The gay mystery … Continue reading A Queer Eye for the New Eyes
What Were Once Vices…
Notable Gay and Lesbian Eyes Sam Spade seemed to take some genuine pleasure in belittling and slapping around both Wilmer (that gunsel!) and Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon, but homosexuals (and transsexuals) have already been treated more or less the same way in the genre for decades--and would continue to be so for decades … Continue reading What Were Once Vices…