Don Weise has twenty years publishing experience, the majority of which has been devoted to LGBT literature. He's served as Publisher of Alyson Books and Senior Editor at Carroll & Graf Publishers. Don was named by Publishers Weekly as an industry "Change Maker" and listed among Out Magazine's "100 Most Intriguing Gay Men and Lesbians" of the year. Weise is currently the founder/publisher of Querelle Books.
Retired psychotherapist Michael Ward has written a memoir, The Sea Is Quiet Tonight [published on Don Weise’s imprint Querelle Press-Ed.], about the...
Editor Helen Eisenbach led one of the most impressive and respected lists of gay and lesbian books ever assembled: Plume, the stalwart paperback imprint of New American Library Read More
"Cruising and gay sex don’t really need brick-and-mortar institutions anymore. You can cruise anywhere, anytime, with the phone you already have in your pocket, for free. So basically, the world is your bathhouse now." Read More
Doug wrote extensively and compassionately on sexual and racial equality, the rights of the poor, immigrants and AIDS, though admittedly, his writing was more often used as a sledgehammer against injustice than it was as a valentine to friends Read More
"[...] 1978 was a banner year for gay writing; it really marked the dawn of the new gay literary movement that would swell into a torrent over the next fifteen or twenty years."
Editor Michael Denneny talks to Lambda Literary about his illustrious career in publishing. Read More
"When I call myself bisexual, I’m naming myself....I’m also opening myself up to other people’s interpretations—favorable or not—of what that means to them." Read More
"[...] gay activist-leaders of the old school can be tough and enduring (Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon, Barbara Gittings, Frank Kameny among them), and Harry was no exception." Read More
