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.

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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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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March 1979 Andrew Holleran

Cities of the Plain

San Francisco convinced me once again that sex is better there than in New York.
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New York Notebook Andrew Holleran

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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December 1978 Andrew Holleran

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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