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I have noticed that too. Extramarital sex has been de rigueur for a long time, but the adorable gay people are a new development. One of the reasons I like the C. J. Box books is that the hero is a faithfully married man. Swoon.

When the first novel appears in which the gay person is the murderer, then we will know they have arrived.

I agree its news. The first time I came across the "lovable" gay was in P.D. James's "The Private Patient," probably around 2008. Toward the end there was a section on the rape of a lesbian. It had absolutely nothing to do with the plot, and the people involved had nothing to do with the plot. I wondered how the editor could have missed it.

The other novels I have come across all included males, and several times they provide food for the protagonist. Harlan Coben's mystery novel has been the most extensive, some saying it sounds almost like recruiting. That novel was the first one I've read by him, so I don't know if he includes the "adorable gay" in all of them or if he just "came out."