Männerschwarm 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 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 Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, Germany, in 1992 by Joachim Bartholomae

Joachim Bartholomae

-Life:After school Bartholomae studied sociology in Bielefeld. Bartholomae worked after university for book publisher Männerschwarm Verlag in Hamburg.-Works:* Die Engel sind echt. anthology 1994. 169 pages. ISBN 3-928983-25-3....

 and Detlef Grumbach

Detlef Grumbach

Detlef Grumbach is a German author and journalist.-Life:After school Grumbach worked as a journalist. Topics of his works are literary critic, LGBT, sexuality, AIDS and events in life of people...

. In Hamburg the company began to sell LGBT-themed books, LGBT art and comics and magazines as gay magazine Invertito, Edition Waldschlösschen and Queer Lectures. Since 2000 also LGBT books of Bibliothek rosa Winkel (founded by Wolfram Setz

Wolfram Setz

Wolfram Setz is a German historian and author.- Life :After school Setz studied history. Setz worked at Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich. Since 2004 Setz lives in Hamburg. He is publisher of Bibliothek rosa Winkel, an edition of over 50 books to LGBT history. From 1987 to 2007 Setz was a...

) is a part of Männerschwarm Verlag.