Kerry wrote:
"Having said that, the femme fatale is a fixture of the genre
and in literature in general. She is a specific threat to
male power not through direct confrontation but through
seduction and manipulation. That may have more to do with
method than gender, though certainly they are linked. I may
stand corrected, but I don't think there were a lot of gay
protagonists in the genre between the wars either. So we
don't have a pop culture basis for comparison."
This got me thinking. Is there an equivalent of the femme
fatale in crime novels featuring homosexual protagonists, a
character who uses his/her sexuality to lead someone of the
same sex to their destruction? I'm not nearly well read
enough when it comes to gay crime writers to even begin to
see patterns.
Mark
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