Overview

Despite monumental gains in legal equality over the past decade, including the landmark Obergefell ruling on same-sex marriage, the LGBTQ community still faces harsh disparities in physical and mental health, economic status, racial stratification, and hate crimes victimization. These factors compound for LGBTQ persons of color, low income individuals, immigrants, and members of the transgender community. In To Find a Killer, a finalist in the Writers’ League of Texas 2021 Manuscript Contest for Nonfiction, Doug Greco explores the next phase of the LGBTQ rights movement and how issues of race, class, sexuality, gender identity and economic status often intersect to often produce negative outcomes for members the LGBTQ community. Beginning with a gripping, firsthand account of the 2011 anti-gay murder of twenty-four year-old Norma Hurtado, a student the author taught in an Austin high school ten years earlier, this series of interwoven essays employs a mix of narrative nonfiction and political analysis to uncover the intersectional nature of the disparities impacting the LGBTQ community. Drawing from his fifteen-years’ experience as a grassroots organizer in Texas and California, Greco argues for the types of political organizations and public policies necessary to address these challenges. To Find a Killer charts a robust but pragmatic course for the LGBTQ movement today: investing in grassroots leadership development, rooting organizations in local civic and religious institutions, and focusing not just on legal equality, but a wider set of socio-economic issues.

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A heartbreaking, infuriating, illuminating book. Greco traces a line connecting class, sexual orientation, gender and ethnicity that forces you to confront your own biases. This is essential reading for both the burgeoning and the seasoned activist, educator and political scientist. --Tim Kirkman, Emmy-nominated gay filmmaker; Films include The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, Lazy Eye, and the documentary Dear Jesse The stories Doug is telling need to be told, and what is so special is that he doesn't simply analyze with precision the factors that lead to hate crimes such as the one at the center of the book, but he offers concrete solutions. --Michael Shields, Editor in Chief, Across the Margin / ATM Publishing

A heartbreaking, infuriating, illuminating book. Greco traces a line connecting class, sexual orientation, gender and ethnicity that forces you to confront your own biases. This is essential reading for both the burgeoning and the seasoned activist, educator and political scientist. --Tim Kirkman, Emmy-nominated gay filmmaker; Films include The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, Lazy Eye, and the documentary Dear Jesse.

Author Information

Doug Greco is a writer and political organizer in Austin, Texas. Doug's writing has been featured in Across the Margin Magazine, Nonprofit Quarterly, Frontiers Magazine, and his blog Yellowpig.com chronicles Doug's experiences growing up in the Coal Region of Eastern Pennsylvania. To Find a Killer was a finalist in the ""2021 Texas Writers League Manuscript Contest,"" and his account of the Hurtado Murders made the ""2020 Best of Nonfiction List"" for Across The Margin Magazine.

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