On Christopher Street : life, sex, and death after Stonewall / Michael Denneny.

  • Denneny, Michael
Date:
2023
  • Books

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Life, sex, and death after Stonewall

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"As a founder and editor of the wildly influential magazine Christopher Street and then as the first openly gay editor at a mainstream publishing house, Michael Denneny critically shaped publishing around gay subjects and themes in the 1970s and 1980s. Authors whom he helped bring into the spotlight include Paul Monette, Randy Shilts, Ethan Mordden, Edmund White, Larry Kramer, and John Preston. Here he presents not a conventional memoir, but an assemblage of writings from the 1970s and 1980s (many previously unpublished) that illuminate the twists and turns of a period of great cultural and political ferment. Denneny's time machine of a book both preserves and brings back to life a vibrant period in American cultural history"-- Provided by publisher.

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Chicago, IL ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Physical description

xviii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface : becoming real -- Part 1. Morning in gay America (1970-1980). Christopher Street magazine; Dead souls at the The New Yorker : a puzzling case; Lovers : the story of two men; "Everything is only ten years old" : a conversation with Felice Picano; Decent passions : real stories about love; Blue moves : conversation with a male porn dancer -- Part 2. Beginning to count ourselves (1980-1983). Archaeologist of the present : Michel Foucault in New York City; Gay politics and its premises : sixteen propositions; Sixteen propositions : an exchange; Scaring the horses, or, The question of gay identity; Who are we? : what do we want? : How best might we get it? -- Part 3. The state of the tribe (1983-1987). Gay pride and survival in the Eighties; The state of gay criticism; Oedipus revised : David Leavitt's The lost language of cranes; Paragraph 175, or, How dark can it get?; A culture in a crucible -- Workaday publishing, or, Hegel's Ernst (1985-1988); Further down the road; The universal voice of gay writers; A conversation with Allen Barnett; How to review a gay novel; Chasing the crossover audience and other self-defeating strategies; Editing fiction and the question of "political correctness" -- Part 5. On the raft of the Medusa (1988-1890). The death of a generation; An intellectual ambush; A quilt of many colors; Preaching to the choir; The present moment; A letter to Ed White -- Part 6. In the gathering darkness an age of heroes (1991-1996). Eulogy for Allen Barnett; Honoring Richard Rouillard; Eulogy for Randy Shilts; Necessary bread : gay writing comes of age; Stonewall : from event to idea; Three takes on John Preston; Food for live : a dinner party in two hours; Turning ... turning : the boys in the band; A mouthful of air : the case of Larry Kramer; Key West seminar -- Part 7. Reconsiderations (1996-2014). Hymn to the gym; AIDS books : where we've been, where we're going; Affectionate men; Last letter to Paul Monette -- Afterword : looking back.

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  • 9780226824611
  • 0226824616