Denneny was rehired briefly to present the book at a sales conference when no other editors would. Denneny was fired when Macmillan’s chief executive discovered that he had acquired “The Homosexuals,” by Alan Ebert, which featured interviews with 17 gay men. Denneny, the rare openly gay editor in a publishing industry in which many gay and lesbian editors were still closeted.īy then, he was an editor at Macmillan, where he published a book version of Ntozake Shange’s feminist play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” which had its premiere in 1976.īut in 1977, Mr. Denneny and Chuck Ortleb started Christopher Street, a monthly magazine that would publish fiction and nonfiction by gay writers for the next 19 years. Gordon Liddy’s 1980 memoir, “Will” and the journalist Randy Shilts’s magisterial, best-selling history of the AIDS crisis, “And the Band Played On” (1987).
His major mainstream successes included Judith Thurman’s 1982 biography of the Danish writer Isak Dinesen the Watergate burglary mastermind G. Denneny multitasked his way through a jampacked publishing career.
His brother, Joe, his only immediate survivor, said the cause was likely a heart attack.įor about 30 years, Mr. literature and who helped found a magazine billed as a gay version of The New Yorker, died on April 15 at his home in Manhattan. Michael Denneny, an openly gay editor at a major New York publisher who started a pioneering imprint that was devoted to L.G.B.T.
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