Without the editorial persistence and executive dexterity of Robert Weil, the disparate threads of Queer Street could never have become a book.
Without Vincent Virga’s picture edit the pattern of the narrative would have remained a closely guarded secret.
John Yohalem, in copyediting, saved the author more than just occasionally from acute prose thrombosis.
The author’s heartfelt thanks go out for the enthusiasm and composure of two very sharp editorial assistants, Jason Baskin and Brendan Curry; the ingenious and innovative book design concepts of Rubina Yeh; the patient, welcoming and always authoritative production supervision of Nancy Palmquist and Anna Oler; and David Hawkins, Adrian Kitzinger and Don Rifkin, for additional editorial work.
More than any other works cited in Queer Street, George Chauncey’s Gay New York and Robert Dawidoff’s writings on homosexual rights seen as manifest in the fabric of the American Constitution inform this book.
The author is deeply grateful to these benefactors for helping Queer Street come about: Susan Sontag, Harold Bloom, John Hollander, J.D. McClatchy, Wayne Koestenbaum, Victoria Wilson, Donald Lyons, George Haas, Darragh Park, Kathleen and Hugh Howard, Ann Mahon Fuller, Catherine Bolger De Martino, Laureen Campbell King, Tracy Young, Robert Cohen, Tim Robinson, Lester Glassner, John Paradiso, Chris Felver, Chip Kidd, William Moses Hoffman, Michael Silverblatt, Eric Garber, Jack Burlison, Gary Johnson, Suzannah Lessard, Noel Brennan and Greg Zabilski, and to the following deceased, who must here represent in memory whole legions of bright-light, quick-witted anonymous contributors who might have made (and still might make) life for us all a freer, truer and finer thing than all too many others told us it could ever be: Richard Mahar, Harry Blair, William Corley, Ralph Tardi, Carmen Delgado, Robert (Aubrey) Tarbox, Jarry Lang, Leo Lerman, James Schuyler, James Merrill, Richard Rouilard, Jerome B. Fierman, Neil Cunningham and Dorothy Dean.
And lastly, to his constant and wonderful friends in the Publishing Office of the Library of Congress, and in particular to W. Ralph Eubanks, Margaret E. Wagner, Evelyn Sinclair, Linda Osborne, Blaine Marshall, Iris Newsome Sara Day, Heather Burke, Susan Reyburn, Alex Hovan, Gloria Baskerville-Holmes and Clarke Allen.