[2] In 1974, Mavety took over the distribution of a short-lived gay magazine called Dilettante, which was edited by John Devere.

A self-identified straight man who was married several times and had 13 or 14 children, Mavety "was a visionary"[2] who felt that after the legalization of full frontal male nudity, there was a profitable market for gay magazines.

Whereas John Michael Cox, Jr., warns against "canoniz[ing] George as the patron saint of the Gay Press," depicting him as a hard-nosed businessman,[2] Dian Hanson, who worked with him for many years and delivered the eulogy at his burial, describes him in the warmest terms.

She reports how "tears burst out," and he "sobbed into his hands" over the AIDS deaths of many of his associates and employees.

"[3] Mavety contributed to many charitable organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, the Caron Foundation, the English-Speaking Union, the Friars Club of New York, the Hellenic Plato Lodge o.