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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September 1979 ⸱ Charles Ortleb

The Context of ‘Cruising’

Publisher Charles Ortleb on the controversy over William Friedkin's 1980 film.
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September 1979 ⸱ Simon Karlinsky

Return to Germany

Simon Karlinsky responds to a 'Christopher Street' interview on "neo-Nazi Germany."
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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 ⸱ Edmund White

Deep in the Heart of Gay Texas

Edmund White reports from Texas on its raw gay bars, charming Southern values, machismo, and angry Baptists.
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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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May 1978 ⸱ The Editors

Letters, May 1978

Readers respond to Seymour Kleinberg's article on the the new masculinity of gay men.
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February 1978 ⸱ Philip Gefter ⸱ Neil Alan Marks

Anatomy of A Love Affair: Postscript

Philip and Neil react to their own interviews and each other's.
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February 1978 ⸱ Neil Alan Marks ⸱ Michael Denneny

Anatomy of a Love Affair: Neil

"I fell in love with him the minute I saw him...I just melted."
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February 1978 ⸱ Philip Gefter ⸱ Michael Denneny

Anatomy of a Love Affair: Philip

"And all of a sudden I realized that his body felt absolutely...it was like the perfect answer to all my needs."
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