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NEW YORKER: Remembering the Cory Book Service, which in the early '50s became the largest mailing list catering to gay men in existence with about 3,000 subscribers.
I was wowed to read that a man who was instrumental to this story was Brandt Aymar (1911-1997), a longtime NYC publisher I met as a young gay man around 1992.
I had no idea, but he published The Homosexual in America by Cory in 1951. Imagine the courage that took. I also had no idea that the man who founded the invaluable book service, and who