![]() Todd White, a historian of the gay rights movement in Los Angeles, noted that the Brandstetter character "never wanted to flaunt his sexuality. ![]() Such was the tenor of the times (two years before the Stonewall riots) that just presenting a protagonist who was straight-forwardly gay was near revolutionary. Who also, at least in the case of Dave Brandstetter, happens to be gay. While that’s not exactly true-George Baxt’s Pharoah Love comes to mind as the first to be acclaimed-Hansen’s series falls evenly into the tradition of hardboiled Southern California detectives imagined by Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald: a tough, stoic, competent detective. Thanks to his Dave Brandstetter mystery series, Joseph Hansen’s entry in American Hard-Boiled Crime Writers states unequivocally that he’s the “Father of the gay mystery novel”. Joseph Hansen, quoted in “ The Mystery Novel As Serious Business” ![]() The best novels do this now as they have always done it. ![]() “The point of fiction is to give the reader for a few hours the chance to be somebody else, to broaden and deepen his understanding of himself and the strangers among whom he has to pass his days. ![]()
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