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PETER GAJDICS is the winner of Opium magazine's 2009 500-word memoir contest, and has also been published in New York Tyrant, The Gay and Lesbian Review/Worldwide, Gay Times, and The Printed Blog. His first book, CROSSING STYX, is about his six years in primal therapy trying to "change" his sexual orientation from gay to straight, and the subsequent medical malpractice suit he filed against his former psychiatrist for treating his homosexuality as a disease. Peter lives in Vancouver, Canada, and can be contacted at gajdics@hotmail.com.
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The Runaways
Two runaways from the 1970's, one from her home, the other from his sexuality, meet up again 25 years later.
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Drawing Out the Sting
When those who’ve wronged us do not take responsibility for the harm they’ve caused, how is it possible to release them, the hope for their contrition, their remorse, from our lives?
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My Name Was Marrow
How can anyone escape their homosexuality with a surname that's pronounced "Gay-dicks"?
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Emery and Me
Gajdics interviews a survivor of Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute, whose Director, Dr. Ewen Cameron, tried to "cure" his homosexuality in the 1950's.
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Prisoners
We can be both prison guard and inmate, yearning for escape, but feeling locked inside ourselves.
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