staying
>within the stereotype of the genre --
but this would imply that any writer must be bound to a
genre. pelecanos doesn't declare himself a 'hardboiled'
writer; he's just a writer. and as you say, what is right in
fiction is up to the writer.
homosexuality as it comes up in his stories is generally a
result of prison experience. the characters who are gay/or
whatever are usually bad guys, yes. and bad guys usually are
the ones with prison experience. duh.
i forget what the original fault-finding on this count was --
pelecanos doesn't include any gay 'good guys'? you want him
to have a gay male protagonist? a gay female protagonist?
why? unless he feels compelled to do so. anyway, if he's
really 'the worst kind of liberal scum', i guess he'll get
around to it. go george.
i have a tough time writing in a white male know it all POV
myself, not having been one before.
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