The foreign publisher, China Youth Press, was kind enough to send some samples of the new Chinese edition of ParentShift, which we received just in time for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Bragging Rights
'Hidden' Photographer Klenz shares story of fires and feminism
When word came to the newsroom that there was severe rioting in Los Angeles, all the Press-Telegram photographers were sent — except for Cristina. The only woman. She was apoplectic. “No one sent me out to shoot anything,” Cristina told me. “I was so angry. I left the paper on my own without telling anyone and drove around Long Beach with a photographer from a wire agency.”
The best news! Canada has criminalized ‘conversion therapy’
We are celebrating. Four years after the release of Peter Gajdics’ thought-provoking memoir, The Inheritance of Shame, the Canadian parliament voted this week to criminalize the practice known as “conversion therapy” nationwide. The unanimous decision is a huge win for the LGBTQ+ community, and is particularly important to Peter.
Seventeen book awards to celebrate our seventh year
It’s hard to believe, and pretty cool, that 2021 will mark Brown Paper Press’ seventh year on the planet. I mean, sure, it’s no Conagra (nod to my Uncle Red, who literally helped build Conagra), but it’s something good that I have managed to make and keep alive; and for a non-money-motivated human such as myself, that’s three-martini-toast-worthy. Plus, seventeen book awards! Not bad for a year’s work.
And the Nautilus Award Goes to...
I couldn’t be more thrilled to announce that both the books we published last year, Trove and ParentShift, have been awarded a prestigious Nautilus Book Award.
‘ParentShift’ a Finalist For Two More Awards
ParentShift: Ten Universal Truths That Will Change the Way You Raise Your Kid racked up two more award nominations last week — from the UK-based Wishing Shelf Awards and the Reader Views Literary Awards here in the States. The winners are scheduled to be announced April 1 and March 23, respectively.
‘Inheritance’ inches closer to the New York stage
Peter has been in New York this week workshopping his adaptation of The Inheritance of Shame with a bunch of Broadway actors — and will speak about it at The Center in Chelsea on Tuesday — and, dammit, it’s all just hugely exciting.
Activist Author Adapting 'Inheritance of Shame' into Play
Conversion therapy survivor Peter Gajdics, the author of our own Inheritance of Shame, has a lot to celebrate these days. In addition to bringing much-needed awareness to efforts to ban conversion therapy for gay youth and adults in his native Canada and beyond, he also has been contracted to adapt his book into a play. How cool is that?
'INHERITANCE' NAMED AS RANDY SHILTS AWARD FINALIST
We are thrilled to announce that The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir was named today as a finalist for the prestigious Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction.
Awarded by The Publisher's Triangle, an association for lesbian and gay men in publishing, the Randy Shilts Award is an honor shared by David France (How to Survive a Plague), Barney Frank (Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage), and David Sedaris (Naked).
The winner will be announced at the 30th annual Triangle Awards, celebrating the best LGBTQ books of 2017. The ceremony will be held on April 26, 2018, at the New School in New York City, at 7 p.m.
The four finalists for the Randy Shilts Award are:
Brilliant Imperfection, by Eli Clare (Duke University Press)
The Inheritance of Shame, by Peter Gajdics (Brown Paper Press)
Lives of Great Men, by Chike Frankie Edozien (Team Angelica Publishing)
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic, by Richard A. McKay (University of Chicago Press
The night before the awards, Peter will be among a select number of Triangle Awards finalists participating in a reading at the Bureau of General Services, Queer Division — the bookstore inside the LGBT Community Services Center in Manhattan. The event is free to the public.
Congratulations, Peter!