Celebrate wh the bt LGBTQ books and books wh gay characters or om LGBTQ thors. Empower yourself by addg the spirg books to your readg list.
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
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... * gay book editor *
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THE HISTORY OF GAY PUBLISHG ONE CAREER: AN INTERVIEW WH MICHAEL DENNENY
* gay book editor *
Tmble’s sports romance Don’t Let Me Go or Annabeth Albert’s holiday gay romance Wrapped Together, then you already know Peter’s greatns edg. As an pennt scholar he's thored three books on Ain Amerin history as well as several books for gay and lbian rears.
READ ME: GAY MEN WH COMPLITED MOTHER/SON RELATNSHIPS, THIS BOOK'S FOR YOU
Roxane Gay Books, a new imprt of Grove Atlantic, will publish three books a year a variety of genr, wh the thor herself stg a wi terms of the * gay book editor *
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. 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?
ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT OPENS DOORS
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.
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
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.