Uberwriter
Posted: 2019-08-22T18:59:20+10:00 In:

1950, blackmail and threats of outing a closeted gay detective when he is tasked with ?investigating the murder of his lover that appear to have been committed during a gay encounter.

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    1. Singularity

      >>as late as the 80?s with it still being a crime

      Yep, so why set it? the 50’s?? (I’m thinking of production costs: props and costumes for the 50’s will be harder/more expensive to replicate.)

      If the setting is in the US, with the exception of San Francisco, virulent homophobia was pervasive in law enforcement into the 90’s. ? I used to work for the LAPD.? Heard many stories from old timers about the “good old days” (70’s and 80’s)? when they regularly raided gay bars, could come down hard with impunity on bun boys and drag queens .

      >>McCarthy….

      And McCarthy’s chief legal counsel, Roy Cohen, was gay; he eventually died of AIDS. (As dramatized in “Angels in America”.)? Talk about irony… (Cohen was also an influential mentor of Trump.? The one who told him to never admit to a mistake, never apologize, always counter punch.)

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    2. Singularity

      So if he does bring the perpetrator to justice,? he will be outed which in that era amounts to career suicide?? If he doesn’t , he can stay in the closet, but justice won’t be done? And? the threat of blackmail will continue to hang over his life as long as the blackmailer lives?

      Have you figured out a way for the protagonist to cut through that Gordian knot?? (I”m don’t want to know what that is, just whether you’ve devised a way for him to do it.)

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    3. Uberwriter

      Hi Rich,

      That is more concise. The part I am having a hard time integrating is the murder blackmailing him. He wants to get justice for his lover, he wants to protect the secret of his own sexuality (not sure if it was a crime in the 50?s – yep, I shuddered typing that). The murderer is trying to steer the investigation by blackmailing him.

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    4. Singularity

      “When his lover is murdered, detective in 1950’s (Chicago?) risks outing himself in order to discover the person who killed his forbidden partner.”

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