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Historians David Sessions and Blake Smith dive into the archives of Christopher Street as a window onto the gay life of the past and the gay discourse of the present.

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David Sessions is a historian and journalist. He has been a writer and editor at The Daily Beast, Newsweek, and Slate, and writing has also appeared in The New Republic, The Point, Dissent, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere. He writes the newsletter Listening Sessions on Substack.

Blake Smith is a historian and translator. He has written many essays on the Christopher Street scene and other subjects in Tablet, The Hedgehog Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and on Substack. He is working on a book about Christopher Street.

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