Stan_Leventhal

Stan Leventhal

Stan Leventhal

American novelist

Stan Leventhal (May 24, 1951 – January 15, 1995) was an American writer and magazine editor. Primarily known as the editor in chief of Heat Publications, a publisher of gay erotic magazines including Mandate, Torso and Inches,[1] he also wrote and published several works of LGBT literature in the 1980s and 1990s.[2] He published three novels and two short story collections during his lifetime; two additional novels were published following his death of AIDS in 1995.

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In addition he founded Amethyst Press, a now-defunct publishing company which specialized in LGBT books,[2] including his own books and titles by Dennis Cooper, Bo Huston, Steve Abbott, Kevin Killian, Patrick Moore and Mark Ameen.[2]

He garnered three Lambda Literary Award nominations, in 1989 for Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square, in 1990 for Fault Lines and in 1991 for Black Marble Pool.

Works

Novels

  • Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square (1988, ISBN 978-0934411080)
  • Fault Lines (1989, ISBN 978-0934411264)
  • Black Marble Pool (1990, ISBN 978-0927200059)
  • Skydiving on Christopher Street (1995, ISBN 978-1563332876)
  • Barbie in Bondage (1996, ISBN 978-1563334153)

Short stories

References

  1. [1]
    Lawrence Schimel, The Drag Queen of Elfland. Circlet Press, 1997. ISBN 9781885865175.
  2. [2]
    Sarah Schulman, "Through the Looking Glass" in Edmund White, ed., Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS. University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-299-17074-5.


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