Detective Saga Pharaoh Love gay Dieux du stade 
A couple of posts ago I talked about my discovery of the novel
a sissy way to die (A queer kind of death, 1966) by George Baxt. Quite a find because they are now impossible to find around here for a short time after publishing in the late 60's the first three. As I noted in that entry
, is a series of mysteries starring a gay black detective. It was quite risky gay because he still had not started the fight for gay rights very seriously soared after the Stonewall riots in 1969 and so far the only gays were viewed in a sympathetic manner if they were
hairdressers, dressmakers or comedians. People did not imagine that a lawyer, journalist, economist and serious-looking detective might be gay. The top player in black is white when the author was also nothing unusual and remember that Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, bringing the struggle for black rights in the U.S. was now at a peak but still not complete or fully seated (as shown by the same murder commented Luther King). Aside and focus and boldness in the series, detective Pharaoh Love began his career with the annotated
A queer kind of death (1966), continued
Swing low, sweet Harriet (1967) and ended as a trilogy in
Topsy & Evil (1968). After those three novels written in three consecutive years, the author turned to other tasks and therefore gave that series as completed when all seemed forgotten but surprisingly reappeared in 1994 with two other novels
referenced to the first titled :
A queer kind of love and
A queer kind of umbrella . The series now I remain as is after the author's death in 2003. It would be nice that someone remembered to republish this interesting series.
A couple of posts ago I talked about my discovery of the novel a sissy way to die (A queer kind of death, 1966) by George Baxt. Quite a find because they are now impossible to find around here for a short time after publishing in the late 60's the first three. As I noted in that entry , is a series of mysteries starring a gay black detective. It was quite risky gay because he still had not started the fight for gay rights very seriously soared after the Stonewall riots in 1969 and so far the only gays were viewed in a sympathetic manner if they were 
hairdressers, dressmakers or comedians. People did not imagine that a lawyer, journalist, economist and serious-looking detective might be gay. The top player in black is white when the author was also nothing unusual and remember that Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, bringing the struggle for black rights in the U.S. was now at a peak but still not complete or fully seated (as shown by the same murder commented Luther King). Aside and focus and boldness in the series, detective Pharaoh Love began his career with the annotated A queer kind of death (1966), continued Swing low, sweet Harriet (1967) and ended as a trilogy in Topsy & Evil (1968). After those three novels written in three consecutive years, the author turned to other tasks and therefore gave that series as completed when all seemed forgotten but surprisingly reappeared in 1994 with two other novels 
referenced to the first titled : A queer kind of love and A queer kind of umbrella . The series now I remain as is after the author's death in 2003. It would be nice that someone remembered to republish this interesting series. 
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