{"product_id":"on-christopher-street-9780226824611","title":"On Christopher Street","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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 betweenthe 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 authorsmany for his groundbreaking Stonewall Inn Editionspropelling queer voices into the mainstream cu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Because of his pivotal role in creating modern gay literature, Denneny has perhaps done more than any other single individual to actually create contemporary gay literary culture. \u003ci\u003eOn \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher Street \u003c\/i\u003eshows that there was a first-rate intellect behind his more familiar role as publisher and editor. While this volume is an important window on the recent past, it also demonstrates the extent to which one man’s lively and humane intellect influenced the creation of contemporary gay culture.” * David Carter, author of Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOn Christopher Street \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a remarkable glimpse into the first decades after the Stonewall Riots, a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a new culture in formation. A valuable and thoughtful account of a foundational moment in American cultural history.” * David K. Johnson, author of The Lavender Scare *\u003cbr\u003e“There simply is no other person in the LGBT community who has been as pivotal for LGBT publishing, from newspapers and magazines to books. This important book is a testament to the history of our community.” * Mark Segal, founder and publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News and author of And Then I Danced *\u003cbr\u003e\"Michael Denneny’s memoir-in-essays \u003ci\u003eOn Christopher Street\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates various aspects of gay life in the past half-century. . . . The book’s primary focus is the state of the burgeoning gay literary scene and its public and critical reception. In\u003cbr\u003e preserving articles as they appeared at the time, the book revives the atmosphere, hopes, fears, ambitions, and challenges of the nascent community, as experienced by Denneny as a gay man living and working in New York. It also exposes the flawed, underdeveloped personal perspectives that Denneny spent subsequent years grappling with and refining.\" * Foreword *\u003cbr\u003e\"As a founder and editor of the wildly influential literary journal \u003ci\u003eChristopher Street \u003c\/i\u003eand 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. . . . \u003ci\u003eOn Christopher Street\u003c\/i\u003e revisits that heady period to map out the cultural forces, geographies, and storylines of LGBTQ in those decades. Through 41 micro-chapters, Denneny draws on his journal writings, articles, interviews, and more from the 1970s and ’80s to put us there in this formative and also tragic time.\" * Queer Forty *\u003cbr\u003e\"As the queer community has survived countless attempts at suppression and elimination, this book offers not only a historical account of the political environment of the 1970s-80s. It also showcases tried and true forms of activism and rhetoric, ones that have kept and continue to make our survival possible.\" * Out in Jersey *\u003cbr\u003e\"If you love reading about gay life, you owe a debt to Michael Denneny.\" * Passport *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Becoming Real\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Morning in Gay America (1970–1980)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher Street\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine\u003cbr\u003e Dead Souls at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e: A Puzzling Case\u003cbr\u003e Lovers: The Story of Two Men\u003cbr\u003e “Everything Is Only Ten Years Old”: A Conversation with Felice Picano\u003cbr\u003e Decent Passions: Real Stories about Love\u003cbr\u003e Blue Moves: Conversation with a Male Porn Dancer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Beginning to Count Ourselves (1980–1983)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Archeologist of the Present: Michel Foucault in New York City\u003cbr\u003e Gay Politics and Its Premises: Sixteen Propositions\u003cbr\u003e Sixteen Propositions: An Exchange\u003cbr\u003e Scaring the Horses; or the Question of Gay Identity\u003cbr\u003e Who Are We? What Do We Want? How Best Might We Get it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: The State of the Tribe (1983–1987)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gay Pride and Survival in the Eighties\u003cbr\u003e The State of Gay Criticism\u003cbr\u003e Oedipus Revised: David Leavitt’s \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Language of Cranes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Paragraph 175, or How Dark Can It Get?\u003cbr\u003e A Culture in a Crucible\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 4: Workaday Publishing, or Hegel’s Ernst (1985–1988)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Further Down the Road\u003cbr\u003e The Universal Voice of Gay Writers\u003cbr\u003e A Conversation with Allen Barnett\u003cbr\u003e How to Review a Gay Novel\u003cbr\u003e Chasing the Crossover Audience and Other Self-Defeating Strategies\u003cbr\u003e Editing Fiction and the Question of “Political Correctness”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 5: On the Raft of the Medusa (1988–1990)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Death of a Generation\u003cbr\u003e An Intellectual Ambush\u003cbr\u003e A Quilt of Many Colors\u003cbr\u003e Preaching to the Choir\u003cbr\u003e The Present Moment\u003cbr\u003e A Letter to Ed White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 6: In the Gathering Darkness an Age of Heroes (1991–1996)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eulogy for Allen Barnett\u003cbr\u003e Honoring Richard Rouillard\u003cbr\u003e Eulogy for Randy Shilts\u003cbr\u003e Necessary Bread: Gay Writing Comes of Age\u003cbr\u003e Stonewall: From Event to Idea\u003cbr\u003e Three Takes on John Preston\u003cbr\u003e Food for Life: A Dinner Party in Two Hours\u003cbr\u003e Turning . . . Turning: The Boys in the Band\u003cbr\u003e A Mouthful of Air: The Case of Larry Kramer\u003cbr\u003e Key West Seminar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 7: Reconsiderations (1996–2014)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hymn to the Gym\u003cbr\u003e AIDS Books: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going\u003cbr\u003e Affectionate Men\u003cbr\u003e Last Letter to Paul Monette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Looking Back\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: \u003ci\u003eOut \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: A Few Words about \u003ci\u003eChristopher Street\u003c\/i\u003e’s Finances\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C: The Stonewall Inn Editions\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732929589591,"sku":"9780226824611","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226824611.jpg?v=1723809973","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-christopher-street-9780226824611","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}