BLK Publishing Company was founded by Alan Bell, an African-American graphic designer and the founder of Gaysweek. The BLK company published several titles tageting the Black LGBTQ community including BLK, Blackfire, Black Lace, Kuumba, Blackdates, and The BLK Guide to Southern California for Black People in the Life.
Contact Publishing was founded in 1923 by Robert McAlmon, an American author living in France. McAlmon also financed the publication of Djuna Barnes' Ladies Almanack.
Harrison of Paris was founded in 1930 by Monroe Wheeler and Barbara Harrison Wescott, the sister-in-law of Wheeler's longtime partner Glenway Wescott.
Hogarth Press was founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, two of the most prominent modernists and members of the Bloomsbury group, an informal group of modernist authors, artists, and intellectuals. In addition to publishing the works by the Woolfs' friends and acquaintances, Hogarth Press published works on psychoanalysis and translations of foreign works.
Manikin was a magazine published by Monroe Wheeler.
Shakespeare and Company was a bookstore founded in Paris in 1929 by an American named Sylvia Beach. While Shakespeare and Company is best known as a bookstore, it also published the work of many prominent modernists.