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New York Notebook Andrew Holleran

A Survivor's Guide to the Holidays

The holidays cast us adrift on a flash flood of images which are all sentimental, familial, tender, and best handled by human beings eight years old.
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February 1983 George Stambolian

Interview with a Hot and Handsome Man

George Stambolian gets naked with a hot man to talk about beauty, narcissism, and the aesthetics of gay sex.
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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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September 1977 Edmund White

Fantasia on the Seventies

Edmund White reflects on the decade's sexual extravaganza and coupling patterns.
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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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"We always thought our task was to open a space, a forum, where the developing gay culture could manifest and experience itself."

Every Night Fever

Michael Musto asks, “What are all these people doing here, when it’s not even Saturday night?”
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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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Haute Cuisine

Tim Dlugos reviews Edmund White’s ‘A Boy’s Own Story.’
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Little Green Buddies

Christopher Bram on Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad" series: children's books with a gay subtext?
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This Time Around I Belong to Him

George Stambolian interviews a gay masochist about pain, pleasure, trauma, and race.
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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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