the magazine of gay culture and ideas

March 1980 George Stambolian

The Art and Politics of the Male Image

George Stambolian and Sam Hardison discuss the importance of the male image in twentieth-century art, and the struggle to overcome taboo and homophobia in the art establishment.
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July 1983 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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"We always thought our task was to open a space, a forum, where the developing gay culture could manifest and experience itself."

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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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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Our Daily Dose of Admiration

There is an art of attracting admiration and an art of dealing with it.
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Paris and Poppers

After having entertained a romantic myth about the French, it was startling for an American to learn that just being from New York or San Francisco could make one hot in Paris.
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Crisscross

A classic ritual of cruising, I thought, cut short in their case by bad timing.
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