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Peter Gajdics

PETER GAJDICS is the winner of Opium magazine's 2009 500-word memoir contest, and has also been published in The Q Review, New York Tyrant, The Gay and Lesbian Review/Worldwide, Gay Times, The Printed Blog, and this--a literary webzine. 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 [email protected]



 Recent Work by Peter Gajdics
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The Pornographers: Über-Masculinity, and the Sexed Gay Male
What has happened to gay male porn? What has happened to gay male self-image?
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Under Construction
The self-maintenance of masculinity, and the masculinity of self-maintenance.
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Ungaying the Gay
Whether it's with a tennis racket, or an aluminum baseball bat, batting while screaming away the gay just doesn't work.
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A Diffused Winter Fog
Gajdics workshops his memoir at Lambda, and battles the dark horse of depression back in Vancouver.
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Crossing Styx (excerpt #2)
Peter Gajdics, 24 years old, begins primal therapy with Dr. Alfonzo.
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I Am Not Who You Told Me I Was
If there is sin in forgetting, perhaps then that is what I am: a sleeper, having sinned from choosing to forget.
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One Road Diverged: Same Sex Desire & the Closet of Homosexuality
Peter Gajdics reflects on the conflation of same sex desire and homosexuality.
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What I Want To Be When I Grow Up: Me, My Gender and I
Is psychiatry's treatment of "Gender Identity Disorder" a backdoor maneuver to prevent homosexuality?
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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, 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.
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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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Surviving Homophobia in a Therapeutic Cult
Gajdics sues his former psychiatrist for treating his homosexuality as a disease.
   
   
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