Christopher Street was an American
gay-orientedmagazine published in
New York City,
New York, by
Charles Ortleb. It was founded in 1976 by Ortleb and
Michael Denneny, an openly gay editor in book publishing.[1] Two years later, the magazine had a circulation of 20,000 and annual revenues of $250,000.[2] Known both for its serious discussion of
issues within the gay community and its
satire of anti-gay criticism, it was one of the two most widely read gay-issues publications in the United States.[3][4]Christopher Street covered politics and culture and its aim was to become a gay equivalent of The New Yorker.[5]
And God Bless Uncle Harry and His Roommate Jack Who We Are Not Supposed to Talk About: cartoons from Christopher Street magazine, Avon Books, 1978
ISBN0380018977.
Aphrodisiac, fiction from Christopher Street. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1980
ISBN0698110358. Reprinted unchanged, New York: Putnam, 1982.
Charles Ortleb and Richard Fiala, Le gay ghetto: gay cartoons from Christopher Street, St. Martin's Press, 1980
ISBN0312475888.
The Christopher Street Reader, ed.
Michael Denneny; Charles Ortleb; Thomas Steele. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1983
ISBN0698111257. Issued in Britain as The View from Christopher Street, Chatto & Windus, 1984
ISBN0701129069.
First Love/Last Love: New Fiction from Christopher Street, ed. Michael Denneny; Charles Ortleb; Thomas Steele. New York: Putnam, 1985
ISBN0399130829.
Boyd McDonald, Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to "Oldies" on TV, Gay Presses of New York, 1985
ISBN091401708X: a collection of movie reviews, all but a few first published in Christopher Street.
Quentin Crisp, How to Go to the Movies: A Guide for the Perplexed, St. Martin's Press, 1989
ISBN0-312-05444-0: more Christopher Street movie reviews.
Andrew Holleran.
Ground Zero. New York : Morrow, 1988.
ISBN9780688033576. Collection of essays from Christopher Street written in real time as AIDS devastated the gay community of New York.
^Gehr, Richard (2014). Only Read it for the Cartoons: The New Yorker's Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 48.
ISBN9780544114456.