Walking by the charms of Barcelona I found this old book that, like any good detective queer, I was struck by that title. Lo gay detective is an expression made popular long ago, I guess that's the 70 after Stonewall and the gay movement's beginnings, to refer to anyone who saw things everywhere gays or homosexuality sniffed a mile away and is not spent even a small signal. Come on, gay people, after years of prohibition and hidden signals for communication, radar was developed as a and a special antenna to detect anything that could be related to their "business". Obviously this was something strange word burlesque and was coined by the heterosexual but had some success and is still used without special pejorative meaning. Well, sometimes I carry the radar and sometimes actually detected 
distance gay material (ha ha). totally unaware this author and I did not give more weight but I bought the book since it cost only one euro (the charms are as El Rastro in Madrid for those not familiar with Barcelona). Once home I read voraciously, I inquired about this author unknown to me and I was surprised that's all a celebrity in America and Hollywood screenwriter and as a writer was one of the first to create a series featuring a gay detective, and in this case is literal gay detective. This novel I found lying around and miraculously rescued the first of a series starring detective Pharaoh Love (Pharaoh Love here, although they could have put more English form). This character's name is so evocative black and gay, all a dare in 1966 and be reminded that the Stonewall riots occur in 1969 and the early gay liberation movements as a result of these and social awareness the issue of homosexuality is very slow and
progressive in the early 70's. I guess for the great connoisseurs in detective literature series is one among many but this peculiarity and boldness makes it a bit special and deserves a place among the highlights of those years 60-70. The author ended the series after three novels followed but surprisingly enough took it up in the 90's with two new releases. I have not seen that are published here and I think that would be worth. As has been a little surprise and it is so unknown in these parts I think that deserves some further input on the series, detective novels are interesting celebrities in his story about his film and about you.
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