He edited a host of acclaimed writers, including Ntozake Shange and Randy Shilts, and started Stonewall Inn Editions, a trailblazing gay publishing imprint
after Mr. Denneny’s death. “They captured pain, lust, fear, empathy, and rage for us. Some of us were so numb and traumatized that we couldn’t access our own.”
Many of his first-time writers, including Thurman, were young and relatively untested. In a phone interview, she said that Mr. Denneny contacted her after reading a Ms. magazine article she wrote about Dinesen and suggested that she write a full-length biography of the renowned Danish author, whose real name was Karen Blixen.“I said, ‘You’re out of your mind, I’ve never written anything longer than 10 pages.’ And in the course of a few conversations, he talked me into it,” Thurman recalled.
“He was a gay Virgil,” she said of Mr. Denneny. “He took people through hell, back up through purgatory to paradise. As an editor, that’s how I would characterize him. He was very attuned to the poetry of this world.”The oldest of three sons, Michael Leo Denneny was born in Providence, R.I., on March 2, 1943. He grew up in nearby Pawtucket, where his mother was a mill worker and his father handled mail.
A self-described “hippie intellectual,” he protested the Vietnam War, worked part-time at the University of Chicago Press and increasingly identified as gay in the years after Stonewall. “Most people just thought it was my latest political enthusiasm,” he recalled in a 1996 interview. “So, in essence, I moved to N.Y.C. to try out being gay. It worked!”Soon after he arrived in the city, in 1971, he was hired as an editor at Macmillan.
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