Third man out

""Gay private eye Don Strachey is not fond of Queer Nation activist John Rutka, who has been self-righteously outing Albany's closeted gays in high places. But when Rutka is shot and his house firebombed, Strachey agrees to help - only to lose his client in what looks like an act of violent retribution. Using Rutka's files, Strachey searches for the perpetrator and discovers that Rutka had been closing in on a major but unnamed figure. Strachey must track down this dangerous homophobe, then destroy the files, a task that brings even more surprises than this shrewd, world-wise sleuth could have imagined."--Page 4 of cover."
"After an attempt is made on his life, Queer Nation activist John Rutka asks tough-as-nails gay private detective Don Strachey to provide him with protection. But why does someone want to kill him? Maybe because the activist's efforts at outing closeted gay homophobes have earned him plenty of enemies who want to see him dead."
"Sixteen years after this 1992 story, and forced outing remains a hot button in gay politics. When an activist's claims that men he's outed are stalking him don't ring true, Albany's only gay PI drops his protection detail - and the client winds up dead. Strachey peels back the layers of his client's double cross only to find ... a triple cross. (Filmed for release by HereTV in 2005.)."@en