S Bear Bergman launches publishing house
IN PRINT / Flamingo Rampant to make books about gender-independent kids
Katie Toth / Toronto / Thursday, June 14, 2012
http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/S_Bear_Bergman_launches_publishing_house-12136.aspxGay families rejoice: S Bear Bergman is back with a double dose of children's lit.
The activist and author has written two books, co-edited Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation with Kate Bornstein, and created four award-winning performance pieces. Now, he is releasing two children's books with a new publishing house — Flamingo Rampant — he co-founded with husband j wallace.
Bergman was pushed into the project by a kids' camp director who said there were no fun books that featured kids exploring their gender identity. It was a leap: he'd never written children's books before.
"Writers are in many ways like actors," Bergman says. "You say 'yes' and then you get good at it."
Luckily, Bergman got good at it quickly: when he read the stories to kids, parents kept asking when they could buy them.
