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This is a review/retrospective of The Detective, a 1968 film starring Frank Sinatra as NYPD detective Joe Leland, released just over a month before the Stonewall riots and shortly after The Boys in the Band opened off-Broadway. The reviewer frames it as an early, imperfect mainstream attempt to engage with gay culture — shocking for its era through language (Sinatra saying words like "penis" and "semen" early on) more than through any explicit depiction, since same-sex intimacy is barely shown o...
