The article provides an overview of novels that were published between 1980 and 2009 and
that have major gay characters as a detective or a victim (often both). Examples are drawn …

Gertrude Stein called it" the only really modern novel form that has come into existence," yet
the mystery genre was a century old before it featured its first gay main character in a novel …

In the last few years of its existence, the East German socialist state had initiated a campaign
of tolerance and integration of its homosexuals into socialist society that seemed to cast the …

A new breed of mystery fiction that comes from different ethnic or sexual viewpoints is
surfacing. Detective novels about gays and lesbians, Native Americans, African Americans …

Between the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the Second World War (1889–
1940), approximately 22 homosexual novels were written in the Netherlands. Some of these …

This dissertation examines representations of gay men in contemporary Japanese novels
and films produced from around the beginning of the 1990s so-called gay boom era to the …

Works by Christoph Klimke, Detlev Meyer, Mario Wirz, and Napoleon Seyfarth formed the
nucleus of German" AIDS literature" in the early 1990s. This essay analyzes the ways in …

Literary studies are still often seen as a highly specialized field, relevant only within the
restricted area of academia. On the contrary, gay literary studies developed as a set of …

In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the
history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile …

Abstract [Hoogland] provides an insightful analysis of Basic Instinct, the virulently lesbian-
phobic film by Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven distributed in 1992. Rather than reiterating …