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As a public person, Larry guarded his privacy which ended in 1972
with the publication of his wildly popular The Leatherman’s Handbook.
Over the years, he often said that his signature book had sold more than
a hundred thousand copies in a gay publishing market where “5,000
copies sold” constitutes a best-seller. His first personal interview, “Larry
Townsend Talks about His Life as a Gay Novelist,” was published in
the San Francisco magazine, Vector, October 1971. His last was in pub-
lisher Bob Wingate’s Bound and Gagged, January/February, 1993, issue
32.

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