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"Originally published in Spanish as Gay Gigante by Catalonia in Chile in 2016 and Tusquets Editores in Mexico in 2017."--Title page verso.
About the author
Gabriel Ebensperger is an artist and a writer who lives by the sea in Chile. He works as an illustrator, a graphic designer, and an art director. His work has been featured in several Chilean and international publications. Gay Giant is his debut graphic novel.
Summary
“Ebensperger debuts with a big pink splash in the forthright but lighthearted memoir . . . This entertaining, funny, and warmhearted chronicle of the rocky road toward self-acceptance is a real charmer.” —Publishers Weekly
A gay giant can't hide. This charming coming-of-age and coming-to-terms with oneself story shows us what it feels like to grow up queer in a heteronormative society in the 1990s.
Filled with pop culture touchstones from Cher to Steven Tyler, from Jurassic Park to Grey's Anatomy, this book navigates both the joy and the pain of puberty surrounded by ignorance and homophobia. How do you love yourself if you've learned so well to hate yourself? For all of us who've ever felt bizarre, damaged, or strange, we are shown that all is full of love, and that true acceptance must come from within yourself.
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Major review attention
National media
Online/social media promotion
Potential strategic partnerships:
Pen America, Aids Healthcare Foundation, FLUX, The Trevor Project, GLADD, Lambda, GLSEN
Promotion through the author’s Instagram account: @gaygigante and @gabrielebensperger
Bookseller/Library promotions:
- ARC giveaways through the ABA Advance Access Newsletter
- Blad giveaways to librarians and educators who attend the NY Public Library Programming at NYComicCon
- Book giveaways at ALA Midwinter, ALA annual, the Brooklyn Book Festival, and Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD.
- Graphic novel panels at San Diego ComicCon and NYComicCon.
