January 28, 1930 �" July 31, 2011
Dr. Bill (Willis) Warner died of cancer at the Veterans Administration Hospital on July 31. He was 81.
Dr. Bill, as he was known, was born January 28, 1930 on a farm in upstate New York. He served as an AIDS adviser to former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop, retiring in 1986.
He served in the Navy in Korea in 1950 and went to medical school on the GI bill (OB/Gyn).
An arrest in 1961 for public sex effectively ended his marriage.
Dr. Bill joined the Gay Artists and Writers' Kollective in 1987 and started GLB Publishers. He and Jon Sugar started writers' workshops and proceeded to fulfill many writers' dreams, with over 100 titles other publishers rejected, including Leather Rogues , Dorr Legg's Homophile Studies ; and many others.
Dr. Bill's web site is www.glbpubs.com.
He is survived by his 92-year-old sister, along with nieces, nephews, and friends. Respond to Jon Sugar via Facebook.