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Through the eyes of publishing icon Michael Denneny, this cultural autobiography traces the evolution of the US's queer community in the three decades post-Stonewall.
The Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s have been captured in minute detail, and rightly memorialized in books, on tv, and in film as pivotal and powerful moments in queer history. Yet what about the moments in between—the tumultuous decade post-Stonewall when the queer community's vitality and creativity exploded across the country, even as the AIDS crisis emerged?
Michael Denneny was there for it all. As a founder and editor of the wildly influential magazine Christopher Street and later as the first openly gay editor at a major publishing house, Denneny critically shaped publishing around gay subjects in the 1970s and beyond. At St. Martin's Press, he acquired a slew of landmark titles by gay authors—many for his groundbreaking Stonewall Inn Editions—propelling queer voices into the mainstream cultural conversation. On Christopher Street is Denneny's time machine, going back to that heady period to lay out the unfolding geographies and storylines of gay lives and capturing the raw immediacy of his and his contemporaries' daily lives as gay people in America. Through forty-one micro-chapters, he uses his journal writings, articles, interviews, and more from the 1970s and '80s to illuminate the twists and turns of a period of incomparable cultural ferment.
One of the few surviving voices of his generation, Denneny transports us back in time to share those vibrant in-between moments in gay lives—the joy, sorrow, ecstasy, and energy—across three decades of queer history.
Contents
Preface: Becoming Real
Part 1: Morning in Gay America (1970-1980)
Christopher Street Magazine
Dead Souls at 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)
Archeologist 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
Part 4: 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 (1988-1990)
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 Life: 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
Appendix A: Out Magazine
Appendix B: A Few Words about Christopher Street's Finances
Appendix C: The Stonewall Inn Editions
Acknowledgments
