Crossover: Straight Men ~ Gay Encounters
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Wikipedia lists Robert Joseph Greene as Canada’s ONLY male romantic writer. In 1995 Canadian Writer Robert Greene embarked to write a series of short stories called "Folklore Stories of the World." The stories were a series of allegories set to teach gay men about valiantly , chivalry and selfless romantic acts. Mr. Greene wanted to show romantic relations would give deeper meaning to gay men over sexual relations and felt through a series of stories he would be successful. He is famous for his quote : "Romantics are to gays, what Christians were to Roman's back in the day…something to feed to the lions"
SBC Magazine (defunct) SPRING edition published Greene's first of a series of short stories. The story was entitled "The Soiled Loin Cloth", the magazine's editor Stanley Bennett Clay accompanied the piece with a photograph of two Nubian men wrestling in the water. The piece garnered much attention for the magazine and Greene was again requested to submit another short. Greene then went on to submit "The Wrong Voice Far Away" which was published in the WINTER 2001 Edition of SBC Magazine.
In 2003, The Halifax Herald Newspaper (Halifax, Nova Scotia CANADA) acquired a piece written by Greene called "Africkville: A Young Girls Journey. It detailed his mother's memory of as a child visiting long lost relatives. Greene believed that this branch of relatives came to Canada as runaway slaves from the USA.
In 2006, the editor of "Letters From Camp Rehoboth" honoured Robert Greene's efforts in bringing romantic love to gay men published "The Journey and the Jewels" for their February 10, 2006 in time for Valentine's Day. In March 2006, "The Journey and the Jewels" received a lot of praise both in Canada and the USA. The Watermark (Florida's LGBT Weekly Publication) gave "Kudos" to the piece.
Icon Empire Press would later acquire the short stories branding their own name as an e-book series called the GAY ICON CLASSICS OF THE WORLD.
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 was the first “Westerner” to address the Russian "homosexual propaganda" laws directly to the Russian public in An op-ed piece printed in the MOSCOW TIMES.
Greene credits his writing talent to his mother who was an English teacher in Connecticut and his father who is President and CEO of Greenebark Press, Inc. .
In 2008, Greene's writing interest turn to more controversial issues like bisexuality and casual encounters. CROSSOVERS: Straight Men - Gay Encounters addresses a growing trend in sexual awareness among men.
This High School Has Closets was a long listed nominee for the Lambda Literary Awards in the 2012 young adult novels category.
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.
Greene was a finalist for the 2015 Vancouver Pride Legacy Turquoise Award for the Arts.
Greene has been a global LGBT Activist supporting groups like 404 - Not Found (Russia), PFLAG (Canada), and Men of All Colors Together (United States).
