Felice Picano, Champion of Gay Literature, Is Dead at 81
Felice Picano, who in the 1970s and ’80s helped usher in a golden age of gay literature as the author of groundbreaking novels and memoirs and as the publisher of dozens of books by gay writers, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 81. The cause of his death, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, was…