Hammett made it clear that Cairo, Wilmer, and Guttmann were
all homosexual
(at least in Spade's POV). In fact Spade refers to Wilmer as
a gunsel which by definition is " a boy kept by a pederast" .
Gunsel became slang for gunman sometime after the publication
of TMF.
Guttmann did have a daughter in the novel, but that doesn't
preclude him from being homosexual.
Kent Westmoreland
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