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David Sessions

David Sessions is a historian and co-host of the "Off Christopher Street" podcast. His writing has appeared in The New Republic, The Point, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere.

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When Gay Self-Help Wasn't Slop

The best gay self-help book of all time was a sex manual, a literary experiment, and a rousing text of gay liberation.
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Gay Power, Gay Myth: Harvey Milk and Randy Shilts

The legend of Harvey Milk and the gay journalist who made it.
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Where Have All the Gay Writers Gone?

The state of gay male media and intellectual life.
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The Best Gay Novel of All Time

Re-reading Andrew Holleran's classic novel 'Dancer from the Dance.'
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The Cut and the Uncut

The politics and erotics of circumcision.
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From the Archives ⸱ David Sessions

Andrew Holleran in 'Christopher Street' (1978-1995)

Making Holleran's previously unpublished columns available online.
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Are Straight Women Gay Men?

Why it's gay to think about straight women.
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What is Pride For?

Pride is a standing communal ritual capacious enough for our ambivalence.
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When Gay Men Reinvented Love

Christopher Street's "Anatomy of a Love Affair" in the age of sad gay dating slop.
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Why the Gays Tried to Cancel 'Cruising'

'Christopher Street' editor Charles Ortleb saw the film as an opportunity to forge a gay "people" in the shadow of a looming fascism.
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What's So Casual About Casual Sex?

From Andrew Holleran's "fast-food sex" to today's Grindr angst, the gays have always been fretting about their own promiscuity.
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Podcast ⸱ David Sessions ⸱ Blake Smith ⸱ Daniel Lefferts

The Sordid Spectacle of Right-Wing Gays

From the Reagan revolution to gay MAGA.
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