There are many more, but few have become household names. Joseph Hansen is probably the best known author having created the Dave Brandstetter mysteries in 1970, which continued through the 1990s.
George Baxt is credited with being the first writer to publish a series of books with a gay sleuth as the lead in 1966.
Gay detective fiction isn’t new, but it isn’t exactly mainstream. Forced into the limelight, Allen became an activist for the LGBT community. tabloid “The Globe”, which published photos of him kissing another man. In 1996, Chad was outed as gay by the U.S. As well as guest starring roles on several television series throughout the 1980s, 90s and 2000s. Chad is a former child star having main cast credits in 1986-88s Our House, 1989-90s My Two Dads, and 1993 to 1998s Dr. The films starred Chad Allen as Don Strachey, a gay detective in Albany, New York.
Based on a series of books written by Richard Stevenson starting in the early 1980s and continuing to the present, with the latest book being released in 2019, four movies for Here TV were produced between 20.
