HeyJaredOff Christopher Street
Historians David Sessions and Blake Smith dive into the archives of the gay literary magazine Christopher Street as a window onto the gay life of the past and the gay discourses of the present.
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Where Have All the Gay Writers Gone? (w/ Dan Oppenheimer) (opens the original)
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In this crossover episode with Eminent Americans , we take a step back from our regular programming to talk to our friend Dan Oppenheimer about the state of gay male intellectual life. Does it still exist? If so, where is it located? We talk about why the editors of Christopher Street thought it was important to use new media strategies to cultivate a distinctive gay male identity and a shared, if not homogenous, literary culture around it. Are today’s gay writers part of anything like a common
The Best Gay Novel of All Time (w/ Domenic DeSocio) (opens the original)
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Our reverence for Andrew Holleran is no secret, and the appointed hour has arrived to talk about his 1978 masterpiece Dancer from the Dance , not just, as we argue, the best gay novel of all time but one of the best American novels. Despite remaining untaught in universities, unlike other classics of minority literature, and really having no institutionalized means of transmission, gay men still discover it 50 years later and see themselves in it. A lot of us initially read Dancer as a sociologi
The Scandalous History of Circumcision (w/ Ben Bernard) (opens the original)
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We’re back from our summer vacation and ready, naturally, to talk about dicks. We’re joined for our tenth episode by fellow historian Ben Bernard to talk about the strange career of circumcision in America, which the writer Edward Wallerstein in 1980 called “a solution in search of a problem.” Wallerstein’s book made an appearance in a Christopher Street dialogue between George Stambolian and Larry Mass at a time when gay men–and increasingly, Americans writ large–were skeptical of medical exper
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