Barbara Grier

Barbara Glycine Grier (November 4, 1933 – November 10, 2011) was an American writer and publisher. She is credited as one of the leaders of the women in print movement during second-wave feminism, responsible for building the lesbian book industry. After editing The Ladder magazine, published by the lesbian civil rights group Daughters of Bilitis, she co-founded a lesbian book-publishing company Naiad Press, which achieved publicity and became the world's largest publisher of lesbian books. She built a major collection of lesbian literature, catalogued with detailed indexing of topics.