
The Minnesota Partnership was part of The National Lesbian and Gay Community Funding Partnership, and awarded over $400,000 for LGBT services across the state.


In the 1990s, Brian founded and secured matching funds for the Minnesota Lesbian & Gay Community Funding Partnership, a three-year initiative to expand funding opportunities to Minnesota's LGBT community. He has taught/teaches creative writing at Emerson College (Boston), and the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), and numerous arts organizations.īrian was an early employee of the Minnesota AIDS Project (now Rainbow Health) in the 1980s, a volunteer with the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, and the volunteer coordinator for Minnesota's first AIDS walk in 1988. Honors include the Minnesota Book Award, the American Library Association's Alex Award, and the Bloomsday Award for Irish American Literature.

His novels have been a 2002 New York Times New and Notable title, an Oprah Daily pick for best of 2022, a 2021 Women's National Book Association Great Group Reads selection, and a 2009 Book Sense Pick.

Martin's Press), After Francesco (Kensington), and the young adult novel Twelve Long Months (Scholastic). Brian Malloy is the author of novels The Year of Ice (St.
