When I started publishg more than 20 years ago, answerg phone lls at a ctomer service sk, the only gay man the dtry whose name I...
Contents:
- GAY, LBIAN, LGBTQIA
- THE HISTORY OF GAY PUBLISHG ONE CAREER: AN INTERVIEW WH MICHAEL DENNENY
- READ ME: GAY MEN WH COMPLITED MOTHER/SON RELATNSHIPS, THIS BOOK'S FOR YOU
- ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT OPENS DOORS
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
GAY, LBIAN, LGBTQIA
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When I started publishg more than 20 years ago, answerg phone lls at a ctomer service sk, the only gay man the dtry whose name I knew was the renowned edor Michael Denneny. To be sure, there were other gay edors who published gay books, most notably Sasha Alyson, but as far as I uld tell, only Michael and Sasha had done what I aspired to do back then: ed a le of qualy gay tl. The followg nversatn wh Michael, nducted via email, unrsr that gay lerature don’t jt “happen.
In 1971, as a rult of Stonewall, I moved to New York Cy, maly to be gay. I’m cur about those su and tie/two-marti days of publishg: What was like beg an openly gay man that old school world? It wasn’t exactly the se of “beg an openly gay man.
” In the early ’70s, spe of the fact that there were que a few gay men and lbians workg as edors, was somethg never spoken about. When I said, “No, ” her face really fell, and she realized she’d gone a step too far, but then I add, “I’m gay” and she broke to this terrific se. I suppose I really me out to the whole pany bee of a book by Alan Ebert, the first gay book I ever published, lled The Homosexuals: Who and What We Are.
ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT OPENS DOORS
And he had e to an terview the book wh a gay rabbi who, among other thgs, scribed fist fuckg. And my iend didn’t believe there uld be such a thg as a gay rabbi, or that fist fuckg was physilly possible. It’s a gay bar [ was the old Anvil] that, among other thgs, has sex acts performed on the bar.
It was actually Ntozake Shange who raised the issue of gay books wh me, sayg, “You’re publishg all the women’s books and black books, how e you aren’t publishg more gay books? In New York Cy at the time, the years followg Stonewall, there were tense discsns gog on among gay people as to whether or not there was such a thg as gay lerature, or gay culture general. I’d gotten volved wh the Gay Activists Alliance, and time we’d started our first gay magaze, OUT, 1973, but only lasted two issu before foldg.
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
The discsns wh Chuck end up nvcg me there was such a thg as gay lerature and, more importantly, that a change of nscns, a change our imagatns, had to be the first step fightg for gay rights. So we end up foundg Christopher Street 1976, one of the first gay lerary magaz—and that got me fired for good om Maclan. ) At each one I’d put a py of Christopher Street on the table and say, “Look, I’m gay and publicly volved wh this gay lerary magaze, so if that giv you a problem, we should jt fet about the job and enjoy lunch, sce this is a very good rtrant and you’re payg for .
I only knew bee they had published a uple of the earlit gay books (Gee Weberg’s Society and the Healthy Homosexual, along wh Roommat Can’t Always Be Lovers and Fire Island by Lige Clark and Jack Nichols). I end up havg five terviews wh Tom, tellg him that I was nvced there was a new market for gay fictn, and I wanted to try to publish to —whout a huge hullabaloo every time I tried to sign up a gay book. Who, bis you, was openly gay and publishg gay tl a mastream hoe back then?