Bruno Gmünder Verlag
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Bruno Gmünder Verlag is a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 company
Company
A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...

 and a book publishing house
Publishing
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...

 which specialises in LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

 fiction and non-fiction.

History

Founded in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

, Germany, in 1981 by Bruno Gmünder (born 1956) and Christian von Maltzahn (1956-1997). Christian von Maltzahn had since November 1978 in Berlin a co-owned bookstore Prinz Eisenherz.
Bruno Gmünder Verlag began to sell LGBT-themed books, LGBT art and comics and magazines as gay magazine Männer
Männer (magazine)
Männer is a German magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, published by the German company Bruno Gmünder Verlag. Between 1989 and 2007, the magazine was published as Männer aktuell.-History:...

. Bruno Gmünder Verlag publish the famous LGBT guide book
Guide book
A guide book is a book for tourists or travelers that provides details about a geographic location, tourist destination, or itinerary. It is the written equivalent of a tour guide...

 Spartacus International Gay Guide
Spartacus International Gay Guide
The Spartacus International Gay Guide is an international gay travel guidebook published annually since 1970, originally by John D. Stamford, currently by Bruno Gmünder Verlag in Berlin, Germany.-Content:...

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