Vancouver writer disrupts anti-gay regimes with romance
Like many black artists in Vancouver, Robert Joseph Greene tends to get a lot of phone calls during Black History Month. But his story is a little different.
“What they took from that is, this westerner, this person, is trying to make our children gay,” said Greene, who was inundated with hate mail and death threats as a result. “They really wanted to load on the Internet as many positive stories of Chinese culture that were pro-gay as possible, and they were really having a dickens of a time doing that,” said Greene.Change has been slower to reach Iran, where few feel comfortable coming out. But the community is there, as is a market for Greene’s writing. After Persian love story The Game of Nard prompted interest from Iranian men, Greene’s publisher worked to set up a covert way for the books to reach the community.
His works have been translated into German, however, and Greene notes that he now sells more books in German than in English — a quirk owed to a 2013 scandal in which one of Germany’s largest booksellers dropped the author’s books in 2013, citing their devotion to traditional, Catholic values.
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