Stan Leventhal (May 24, 1951 – January 15, 1995) was an American writer and magazine editor.
Primarily known as the editor in chief of Heat Publications, a publisher of gay erotic magazines including Mandate, Torso and Inches,[1] he also wrote and published several works of LGBT literature in the 1980s and 1990s.
In addition he founded Amethyst Press, a now-defunct publishing company which specialized in LGBT books,[2] including his own books and titles by Dennis Cooper, Bo Huston, Steve Abbott, Kevin Killian, Patrick Moore and Mark Ameen.
[2] He garnered three Lambda Literary Award nominations, in 1989 for Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square, in 1990 for Fault Lines and in 1991 for Black Marble Pool.
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