Podcast David SessionsBlake 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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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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September 1977 Edmund White

Fantasia on the Seventies

Edmund White reflects on the decade's sexual extravaganza and coupling patterns.
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The Christopher Street Reader Michael Denneny

Why Gay Men Need a Literary Magazine

Michael Denneny's introduction to the magazine from 'The Christopher Street Reader.'
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May 1982 Michel FoucaultGilles Barbedette

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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May 1978 Michael Musto

Every Night Fever

Michael Musto asks, “What are all these people doing here, when it’s not even Saturday night?”
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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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New York Native George Stambolian

Our Daily Dose of Admiration

There is an art of attracting admiration and an art of dealing with it.
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New York Native George Stambolian

Paris and Poppers

After having entertained a romantic myth about the French, it was startling for an American to learn that just being from New York or San Francisco could make one hot in Paris.
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