the magazine of gay culture and ideas

February 1978 Michael Denneny

Anatomy of a Love Affair

In interviews with 'Christopher Street' editor Michael Denneny about their three-year affair, Philip and Neil try to make sense of what they meant to each other and what it was like to invent a modern gay relationship.
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The Christopher Street Reader Michael Denneny

Why Gay Men Need a Literary Magazine

Michael Denneny's introduction to the magazine from 'The Christopher Street Reader.'
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May 1982 Michel FoucaultGilles Barbedette

Michel Foucault on Gay Culture

Gilles Barbedette interviews the French philosopher Michel Foucault about the possibilities of gay culture as a new form of relational life.
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August 1987 Andrew Holleran

Notes on Promiscuity

As King Lear said, “Let copulation thrive; the gilded fly doth lecher in my sight.” As Anthony said of Cleopatra, “She makes hungry where most she satisfies.”
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Books Christopher Bram

Little Green Buddies

Christopher Bram on Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad" series: children's books with a gay subtext?
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July-August 1980 George Stambolian

This Time Around I Belong to Him

George Stambolian interviews a gay masochist about pain, pleasure, trauma, and race.
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"We always thought our task was to open a space, a forum, where the developing gay culture could manifest and experience itself."

The Homophobia of the New Narcissism

Is 'The Culture of Narcissism,' despite its costume of social criticism, actually a gigantic subliminal attack on homosexuality?
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Nipples

A story by Andrew Holleran from the December 1979 issue.
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Fast-Food Sex

Weary of sex even—yes, I’m not afraid to admit it: I was congratulating that man for having sex only three times in the past year.
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Nostalgia for the Mud

“Why do gays love ruins?” I said to my friends when we emerged into the crisp autumn sunlight of a Sunday afternoon. “The Lower West Side, the docks. Why do we love slums so much?”
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Deep in the Heart of Gay Texas

Edmund White reports from Texas on its raw gay bars, charming Southern values, machismo, and angry Baptists.
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Dark Disco: A Lament

When I first moved to New York, disco was darker, sexual, troubled. Today the dark has vanished and the light is everywhere.
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