Robert Joseph Greene
Author Robert Greene is a Canadian author of gay romance fiction, best known for The Gay Icon Classics of the World, a collection of gay-themed love stories from over 12 different countries. Each story represents a culture and a people. The book was listed by PFLAG Canada as a recommended book in their "Books Worth Reading" section.
Following the release of The Gay Icon Classics of the World II in 2012, a group of Russian students translated "The Blue Door", a story from the collection about a young Russian prince who comes out as gay, and used it as a protest against the "homosexual propaganda" laws enacted in Saint Petersburg. In 2013, Greene publicly stated that he had received death threats from readers in Russia over the story.
Greene's This High School Has Closets was a long listed nominee for the Lambda Literary Awards in the 2012 young adult novels category.
Wikipedia lists Mr. Greene as "Canada's only male romantic writer"
In January 2014, Greene embarked on a lobbying campaign among ornithologists to get Merriam-Websters Dictionary to have a "Jabber of Jays" as an official term under bird groups. In April 2015, Greene was a finalist for the 2015 Vancouver Pride Legacy Turquoise Award for the Arts.
Greene graduated from a private school in Aix en Provence, France, called École Privé Charles Péguy. His father is the President and CEO of a publisher of children's books and his mother was an English teacher. His grandmother Desaderal (Newton) Church was a concert pianist and organist. His cousin is jazz singer Carmen McRae. Robert Joseph Greene graduated from the University of San Francisco with a minor in Western Civilization and Literature.
Greene's books are available in Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, German and Romanian.
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