Dirk Vanden (born Richard Fullmer; May 7, 1933 – October 21, 2014),[1] was an American author and illustrator.
A graduate of the University of Utah, his work appeared in ONE Magazine, Vector,[3] and California Scene,[4] as well as in Latter-Gay Saints: An Anthology of Gay Mormon Fiction.
[2] His novel I Want It All was the first book to explore San Francisco's leather subculture.
[6] Vanden received a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Erotica in 2012 for the revision of this trilogy, All Together.
[7] In spite of his success, Vanden, together with Richard Amory, was highly critical of the way editor Earl Kemp and publisher Greenleaf Classics treated his work, citing Greenleaf's non-payment of royalties, employment of editors not familiar with gay literature,[4] and insistence on inserting graphic sex into his books as examples of their heavy-handed approach to LGBT publishing.