Barbara Grier

Barbara Grier
Grier in 1989
Born	November 4, 1933 Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Died	November 10, 2011(2011-11-10) (aged 78) Tallahassee, Florida, US
Other names	Gene Damon (pseudonym)
Occupation(s)	Editor and Publisher
Known for	Editing The Ladder Cofounding Naiad Press
Partner(s)	Helen Bennett Donna McBride

Barbara Grier (November 4, 1933 – November 10, 2011) was an American writer and publisher. She is credited for having built 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.