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Publishing Triangle

American association of LGBT publishers

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Publishing Triangle is an American association of queer readers and professionals in the publishing industry. They host annual Triangle Awards for LGBTQ+ literature, including works with LGBTQ+ authors or with LGBTQ+ themes. The Publishing Triangle also founded the Rainbow Book Month as the National Lesbian and Gay Book Month, and they host literary events in New York.

Editorial summary

“Publishing Triangle” enters the record as american association of LGBT publishers. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Publishing, Triangle and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current 58-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Publishing, Triangle and American.
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Why this record matters

“Publishing Triangle” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Publishing, Triangle and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026.

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Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Publishing Triangle” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.