Your gay mystery and science fiction reading

You know, It's hard to find GOOD gay readings. It's hateful to think how we're portrayed in many literary and not so literary ouvres. Take the Hard-boiled mysteries: Hammet and Chandler, not to mention derivative authors, depicts us as degenrate effete creps. UGH! The reality is, we're as natural as apple-pie. We're part of the world. There is some important reaason we gay people are there. Evolutionary theory tells us: women choose men who were more gentle, loving and empaathic. Therefore, they tended to favour a genetic configuration that sometimes generated us. We are here because women ona average preferred men like Cary Grant and Rock Hudson to men like Schwarzenegger and Conan the Barbarian. And so, gay people is an essential part of the evolution of Human Species. And, specifically, of the male sleuth variety, Holmes and Watson were only good friends?And what of all those boys of the 87th Precinct? Did Hal Willis never fancy red-haired Cotton Hawes? And did Meyer Meyer ever have sweet thoughts about Arthur Brown? Alas, Hardy Boys didn't have wet dreams, let alone of the gay variety. In Mysteries we were hapless victims, desperate killers, never the good guys. Till Joseph Hansen's Brandstetter series



And more so in science fiction, where in the origins of the genre the hero was the male adventurer full of bravado who took all the girls. Theodore Sturgeon in the collection E Pluribus Unicorn wrote a story, "The World well lost" where for the first time homosexuality dared be portrayed in a not negative fashion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Well_Lost
A poignant tale of a different love. Samuel Delany was the first great SF author openly gay, but let us mention The Book of Skulls by Tobert Silverberg and The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov, where the relationship between the humanoid robot Daneelò and the detective (!) Baley has more than a gay overtone.
Nowadays Dorien Grey with the Dick Hardesty series, Josh Lanyin with the Adrien English novels keep the banner of gay sleuths high.

As for Science Fiction and Fantasy, we have many favourites, jordan Castillo Ptrice with her Psycop series, and the Wraeththu hermaphrodite series by Storm Constantine. But kudos to Mark Ian Kendrick with his Rylerran Gateway and his Trenekis if Hiera, who showed than Science Fiction can ibclude both gay and hetero characters without prejudices!