Art and Sex in Greenwich Village A Memoir of Gay Literary Life After Stonewall

In 1969, a decade after the Stonewall rebellions lit the fuse of Gay Liberation worldwide, Felice Picano began a small all-gay press, Seahorse, while Larry Mitchell set up Calamus Books. A few years later, dramaturge Terry Helbing began the CLBT drama series, JH Press. In 1981, the three came together to form Gay Presses of New York. Their first book was Harvey Fierstein's Torchsong Trilogy--and books by Dennis Cooper, Brad Gooch, Martin Duberman, Doric Wilson, Joan Larkin, and Robert Gluck followed. Gay Presses of New York was not only the most successful gay press of its day, but because the three founders had made their move at the right time and place, and known the right people for a decade, GPNY also played a part in the growth of what is now gay culture, consisting of bookstores, magazines, newspapers, theater companies, and art galleries. Many aspects of the arts, as they swirled around New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco during the 1970s through 1991, were connected to GPNY, and in turn GPNY aided and affected those arts as they flourished. Art and Sex in Greenwich Village is the story of that historic confluence.Picano, Felice is the author of 'Art and Sex in Greenwich Village A Memoir of Gay Literary Life After Stonewall', published 2007 under ISBN 9780786718139 and ISBN 0786718137.