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| Local publisher with internationally-acclaimed columnist. |
When Stan joined the newspaper in 1973, Steve was already working there part-time as a typesetting guru. In high school at the time, he had already mastered the new-fangled refrigerator-sized Compugraphic computer that produced galleys of phototype for the newspaper.
The computer digested yellow punch tape that had been prepared by typists. Steve earned the nickname "Lenius the Genius" because of his machine skills and also because it was alleged hat he could actually read and translate the dots punched into the ribbons of paper as easily as the machine.
Stan hadn't seen Steve for forty years until the recent celebration of the Herald's 150th birthday. Turns out, Stan isn't the only one who pursued a career in journalism, Steve ended up as an internationally-acclaimed magazine columnist.
Here's some highlights of his career, taken from his internet bio:
Author and columnist Steve Lenius came out as a gay man in 1974 and became involved in the Twin Cities leather community in 1993.
Author and columnist Steve Lenius came out as a gay man in 1974 and became involved in the Twin Cities leather community in 1993.
For fifteen years his Leather Life column has appeared in Lavender, Minnesota’s GLBT magazine. His writings also have appeared in The Leather Journal, Skin Two (a fetish magazine published in London, UK), the 2008 Yearbook of the BDSM Creative Collective (Minneapolis/St. Paul), Leather Tribe Leather Nation (a yearbook published by The Leather Journal), The Petal and the Thorn (newsletter of Black Rose Society, Washington, D.C.), International Leatherman and Roundup (magazines for the GLBT leather and country/western/rodeo communities published by Brush Creek Media),
The Journal of Bisexuality (published by Haworth Press), The Gayly Oklahoman (a GLBT newspaper based in Oklahoma City), XL (Lavender Magazine’s Adult Xtra) and Gaze Magazine (Minneapolis/St. Paul’s forerunner to Lavender).
His Leather Life columns have also appeared on Leatherpage.com. He wrote the Introduction to Painfully Obvious: An Irreverent & Unauthorized Manual for Leather/SM by Robert Davolt (published by Daedalus Publishing, Los Angeles).
His writing was recognized with a President’s Award from Pantheon of Leather in 2003, and he was a co-winner in the category of “Best Leather Commentary on Current Events” in the True Tales Leather Journalism Awards in 2005.
