An terview wh Michael Denneny about the history of gay publishg.

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THE HISTORY OF GAY PUBLISHG ONE CAREER: AN INTERVIEW WH MICHAEL DENNENY

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The History of Gay Publishg One Career: An Interview Wh Michael Denneny.

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.

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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.

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” 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.

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