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]
First published in July 1976, Christopher Street printed 231 issues before closing its doors in December 1995.
Collections of Christopher Street material
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.
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