[4] There he published a book version of Ntozake Shange’s feminist play for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.
[3] In 1977, Denneny was fired by Macmillan when it was learned that he was going to publish The Homosexuals by Alan Ebert which contained interviews with gay men.
[4] He was briefly rehired to present the book at a sales conference because it was subsequently to be published due to legal obligations, but when his connection to Christopher Street became apparent he was fired again.
After applying for a large number of jobs at Manhattan publishers while openly admitting to being gay,[3] in 1977 he was hired at St. Martin's Press, and wrote two books of his own, Lovers and Decent Passions.
[4] In 1987 Denneny started the LGBT Stonewall Inn Editions paperback imprint at St. Martin’s, the first time a major publishing house had done such, and republished many books that had appeared previously in hard cover.