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Christopher Street: 1977 - 1980
Between 1976 and 1995, Christopher Street was one of the most innovative and influential gay magazines in the United States, with features
on a wide range of topics, new fiction from many writers, cartoons, photo essays etc. Occasional and regular contributors included Andrew Holleran,
Boyd McDonald and Edmund White. All magazines are complete and in generally good condition. Specific defects are noted.
other years:
1981
1982
1984
1986
1987
1988
1989
1992
1993
to be catalogued shortly: 1983 1985 1991
• Other periodicals of gay interest: 1950s 1960s
1970s 1980s
• Other ephemera of gay interest (brochures / leaflets / theatre programmes etc)
• Periodicals in other languages
July 1977
(Vol 2, No 1)
64pp, back cover soiled, £10.00
Contents: Just In From Frisco / Gay Life in Macho Mexico, by David R Lennox [cont'd in next issue] / By Her Own Admission: An Excerpt, by
Gifford Guy Gibson with Mary Jo Risher / Campus Report, by Kim Thomas / Interview with Nick Dante, by Gaby Rodgers /
Glory-Holes, by John Stranack / Poetry by Brad Gooch / Fiction, Current Events, by James Schulyer;
The Store, by Ronald Federico / Book Reviews: Straight Answers about Homosexuality for Straight Readers,
Gay: What You Should Know about Homosexuality / Classifieds / cartoons
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August 1977
(Vol 2, No 2)
64pp, £10.00
Contents: Gays in Cuba Today / Interview with Gloria Steinem, by Dorianne Beyer/ June 26, 1977: San Francisco, by
Maria Stecenko, Photographs by Katherine Mann / Interview with Ethan Geto, by Charles L Ortleb / Gay Life in Mexico Part Two, by David R Lennox /
Anita and Hester, by Robert K Martin/ Homosexuality on Television, by Philip Gerson / Theatre: Gay Sweatshop, by Terry Helbing / Rough Trade: The Williams-Windham Correspondence, by Tim Dlugos / Lita Lepie on Kate Millet / Robert K Martin on Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas / Classifieds / cartoons
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December 1977
(Vol 2, No 6)
64pp, £10.00
Contents: High Court Delivers a Low Blow / Edmund White: An interview with the author of The Joy of Gay Sex / Bertha White: An interview
with the author of The Joy of Lesbian Sex / Notes on Death, by Ned Rorem / We Are in History: An Interview with Eric Bentley, by George
Stambolian / A Hidden Masterpiece: Simon Karlinsky on Valery Pereleshin's Ariel / Freddy: Fiction by William Rooney /
"I was a Teenage Fag-Hag!": A confession by Elke Kaye / Harold Norse: Poems / Rough trade: Notes on the Book World: Tim Dlugos on the
postcard as an object of art / Art: Ann Lauterbach on
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the drawings of Andrew Hudson / Theater: David Stein on The West Street Gang / A National Gay Survey / Late Call / Classifieds / cartoons
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February 1978
(Vol 2, No 8)
64pp, price sticker on front cover, marks on back cover, £20.00
Contents: Anatomy of a Love Affair (30 page article with photographs) / To My Valentine (drawings on the theme) / Who Was That
Masked Woman? (20 page extract from novel-in-progress by Noretta Koertge) / Classifieds / cartoons
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March 1978
(Vol 2, No 9)
64pp, £10.00
Contents: Where Have All the Sissies Gone? An essay by Seymour Kleinberg / Butch: Gay Machismo, Illustrated: Drawings by Victor Amador, Ruth Diamond, Richard Lublin, Janet Mathews and Bruno Schmidt / Camille O'Grady, Profile by Eva Sachs / Albert Innaurato, Interview by Michael Musto / Baby Powder, A book extract by Michael Grumley / A Talk with Michael Grumley / Safe
Fiction by Jessica Slote / Homosexuality and the Decline of Civilization, A history lesson by Louis Crompton / Letter from Boston, by Thom Willenbecher / Movies: Jack Hiemenz on The Unmarried Woman
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and Blue Collar / Fashion: Calvin Klein's new line of menswear, by Randy Bourscheidt / Hair by David Hyl / Music: New Releases, by Joe Gennaro / Classifieds / cartoons
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April 1978
(Vol 2, No 10)
64pp, £10.00
Contents: Letters / Coming Out in the Blackboard Jungle, by Joe Zogby / High School Memoirs, by Michael Musto, Reg Kahney, David Stein, David Hyl, Glenn Brandt and John Philips / Queer! - Scenes from the Gay Experience in High School, An art portfolio by Christopher Rohn, Victor Amador, Richard Lublin, Janet Mathews and Robert Ein / When the Time Came, Fiction by Pat Suncircle / Daniel, Fiction by Mark Hensley / Notes on "Trick", An excerpt from Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz / An Interview with Fran Lebowitz, by Charles Ortleb / Theater: The Hot Peaches, by Eva
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Saks / Music: Interview with Tom Robinson / Book reviews: Our Right to Love; Jonathan Loved David; The Manhood Ceremony; Too Much Flesh and Jabez / Records: New Releases, by Joe Gennaro / Classifieds / cartoons
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May 1978
(Vol 2, No 11)
64pp, £10.00
Contents: Letters / Every Night Fever, by Michael Musto/ Dr Dan Williams, interview by David Stein / My Son the Gay Doctor / Men Hating Men Loving Men, Charles Ortleb talks with Phyllis Chester / How She Lost It , Fiction by Fran Ross / City Island, Pelham Park Bay, poetry by Alfred Corn / Pat Bond talks to Vito Russo / Demigod, by Richard Valentine / Dance: Mangrove & Men's Coalition, by Eleanor Lugan / Movies: Jack Hiemenz on The Betsy / Other Voices / Classifieds / cartoons
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June 1978
(Vol 2, No 12)
64pp, slight soiling of front cover, £20.00
Contents: Letters / Gay Theatre Issue Introduction, by Terry Helbing / Gay Playwriting: Outsider Insights and Outasight Insiders, by Robert Patrick / Rogues Gallery: James Kirkwood, Charles Ludlam,Martin Duberman and others on gay theatre / Gay Theater: Notes from a Diary, by Richard Hall / A Survey of Women's / Feminist / Lesbian Theater Groups in New York, by Barbara Schwartz and Mara Shelby / "Willa-Willie-Bill's Dope Garden" by Megan Terry / Homophobia and the Critics, by Allan Pierce / Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Ben Bagley, by Frank Kelly / In Minneapolis:
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The Out-and-About Theatre Company, by Leo Skir / A Decade of
Gay Theater in Chicago, by Ron Hitchcock / Dance, Barry Laine and Diane Torr take a look at disco dancing / Books: Reg Kahney interviews Sheila Weller, Rosemary McLaughlin reviews Paul Monette's Taking Care of Mrs Carroll / Movies: Jack Hiemenz on Word Is Out / Classifieds / cartoons
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November 1978
(Vol 3, No 4)
72pp, £10.00
Contents: Letters / Male Nudes, by Andrew Holleran / New York's Mein Chow; Alex Sand visits New York's first gay Chinese
restaurant / Bad Habits, by Richard Friedel / Stavrinos, Illustrator, by Nathan Fain / Jokers Are Wild, the opening of John Lahr's
new biography of Joe Orton / A Reckoning, an extract from May Sarton's new novel / Dance: Eleanor and Barry Laine
talk with Meredith Monk / Movies: Jack Hiemenz on The Eyes of Laura Mars/ Classifieds / cartoons
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February 1979
(Vol 3, No 7)
80pp, £10.00
Contents: Letters / New York Notebook, by Andrew Holleran / Richard Whelan on John Eric Broadds / Culinary Notes, by Stephen Bernstein / Out and Around / Lesbian Marketplace, by Cheryl Morrison / The Multi-Million Dollar Mystery High, by David Read / Clear Heads and Cloudy Skies in the Pacific Northwest, by Edmund White / Abolish New York's City Council, by Doug Ireland and Kenneth Sherrill / Thres Friends, Fiction by Jerry Roscoe / Christopher Street Questionnaire / Interviews with Larry Kramer, Charles Ortleb, Yves Navarre / Fiction by Darryl Pinckney and
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Robert S Ryan / Book Reviews: Faggots, Friends and Friends and Friends / Movies: Jack Hiemenz / Classifieds / cartoons
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March 1979
(Vol 3, No 8)
80pp, £10.00
Contents: Letters / New York Notebook, by Andrew Holleran / State of the Arts: Richard Whelan on Joe Brainard /
Cheryl Morrison on Djuna Books / The Outside Agitator: Johnny Greene and Thomas McGuane / Black Socks and Sandals, by
Richard Friedel / Out and Around / Randy Shilts on Harvey Milk / Of Vanity, by Ned Rorem / cartoons by Nicole Hollander /
Champion, Fiction by Robert Emmet Long / Summer Story by Francis Flannagan / Book Review: Uncle
by Julia Markus / Classifieds / cartoons
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March 1980
(Vol 4, No 7)
64pp, cover worn, £10.00
Contents: Letters / Out and Around / Notes on Punk, by Pamela Brandt / The Art and Politics of the Male Image, by
George Stambolian and Sam Hardison / First Love by Edmund White / Photo Contest Winners / Tyranny of the Penis, by
Gordon Johnston / Simon Karlinsky on Serge Diaghilev / Interview with Ray Caviano / Will Aitken on Bertolucci's
Luna / Classifieds / cartoons
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April 1980
(Vol 4, No 8)
64pp, cover worn, £10.00
Contents: Letters / Out and Around / Simon Karlinsky on Punk / The Art of Tom of Finland / Dennis Altman on Rio de Janeiro / Photos by Donald Herron / Interview with Guy Hocquenghem / Poem by Marilyn Hacker / Hanns Ebensten on gay Manhattan restaurants / Book and Film Reviews / Classifieds / cartoons
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May 1980
(Vol 4, No 9)
64pp, cover stained, £20.00
Contents: Letters / Out and Around / Nude photographs by Jacqueline Livingston / Three Poems by Thom Gunn / New Cartoons by Nicole Hollander / Short Stories by Noel Ryan, Alison Gold & Padric McGarry, DuMont Howard / Book Reviews / Will Aitken on critics of Cruising / Classifieds / cartoons
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June 1980
(Vol 4, No 10 misprinted as No 7 )
64pp, cover worn, £10.00
Contents: Letters / Out and Around / Guestword by John Harris / Tim Dlugos on Jaime Manrique Ardila and Bill Sullivan / Gay Life in Moscow / Lawrence Mass on John Wayne Gacy / Robert Martin on biographies and homosexuality / Photographs by Lynn Davis / Fiction by Felice Picano, Henri Cole, Steven Albert / Book Reviews (James Baldwin's Just Above My Head; Patrick White's The Twyborn Affair) / Will Aitken on Pauline Kael / Classifieds / cartoons
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July/August 1980
(Vol 4, No 11)
64pp, cover stained, £10.00
Contents: Letters / Out and Around / Guestword on Christendom's intolerance of sexuality / Trivia Quiz / Dennis Altman on Gay Paris / Sartre: The Final Interview / Photography by Arthur Tress / Prose Poem by John Harris / Book Reviews (Art in the Third Reich; Judy Grahn's poetry; The Durable Fig Leaf ) / Will Aitken interviews Robert Wrench / Classifieds / cartoons
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September 1980
(Vol 4, No 12)
64pp, cover worn, £10.00
Contents: Letters / Out and Around / Steve Wolf on the new gay party line / Richard Danvers on Victor Bumbalo / Tim Dlugos on the amoebic dysentery epidemic / John Money on Gay Lovesickness / Fiction by Andrew Holleran / Greek Love Poems / Ned Rorem's Composer's Diary / Book Reviews (homosexuality in the medieval period; Nancy Friday's Men in Love) / Will Aitken on Strangers on a Train / Classifieds / cartoons
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October / November 1980
(Vol 5, No 1)
64pp, cover worn, £20.00
Contents: Letters / Out and Around / Randy Shilts on Cleve Jones / Robert K Martin on gay life in London / Seymour Kleinberg on an eight-year relationship / Fiction by Henry D Compton / Ned Rorem's Composer's Diary / Book Reviews on homosexuality in French and in American literature / Will Aitken on Chant d'amour / Classifieds / cartoons
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