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Andrew Holleran

Andrew Holleran is the author of several novels, including the celebrated ‘Dancer from the Dance’ (1978) and, most recently, ‘The Kingdom of Sand’ (2022). He was a regular contributor to Christopher Street.

July 1978 Andrew HolleranCharles Ortleb

Andrew Holleran's 1978 'Dancer' Interview

Online for the first time, Andrew Holleran's 1978 interview with 'Christopher Street' on the publication of 'Dancer from the Dance.'
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January 1991 Andrew Holleran

Fragments on AIDS and Iraq

Wars on poverty, wars on disease, wars on homophobia will probably never galvanize the audience the way the war on Saddam Hussein has.
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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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July 1987 Andrew Holleran

Tragic Drag

Remembering Charles Ludlam (1943-1987).
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November 1984 Andrew Holleran

We Must March, My Darlings

Until recently, the gay pride march was essentially a chance to show folks in Kansas that thousands of us look just like them: ordinary—to a fault.
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April 1984 Andrew Holleran

My Last Trick

The only time you give something up is the time you are so indifferent to it you don’t even make the vow or use the word "never."
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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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December 1982 Andrew Holleran

Dancing: The Past Five Years

Andrew Holleran reminisces on the disco haunts of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Tenth Floor, Flamingo, the Saint, and the Ice Palace.
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November 1982 Andrew Holleran

Journal of the Plague Year

“If only I could be frozen (like Walt Disney) till the cure is found...”
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October 1982 Andrew Holleran

The Petrification of Clonestyle

I met the best-looking clones seated across from me in public clinics, doctors’ offices, waiting for our laxative to work.
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December 1979 Andrew Holleran

Nipples

One has always had nipples but one became aware of them only last summer, on Fire Island.
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April 1979 Andrew Holleran

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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