Podcast

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 discourses of the present.

Podcast David SessionsBlake Smith

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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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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Gay Masculinity and Its Discontents

Critics saw 1970s "gay macho" as an abandonment of feminism for male privilege and heteronormativity. But they missed the emergence of a new, distinctively gay culture.
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Gay Men and the Politics of Hotness

Introducing our new podcast, 'Off Christopher Street.'
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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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