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March 1978 ⸱ Seymour Kleinberg

Where Have All the Sissies Gone?

The new masculinity of gay men.
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Off Christopher Street ⸱ David Sessions ⸱ Blake Smith

Going Out and the Pleasures of Impersonal Intimacy

Why gays love the club, and worrying that they love it too much.
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Off Christopher Street ⸱ David Sessions ⸱ Blake Smith

Introducing Our New Podcast

We're bringing the conversations in Christopher Street into the present.
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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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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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Fantasia on the Seventies

Edmund White reflects on the decade's sexual extravaganza and coupling patterns.
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Why Gay Men Need a Literary Magazine

Michael Denneny's introduction to the magazine from 'The Christopher Street Reader.'
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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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