ISBN:
9780226824611
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9780226824635
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 385 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Denneny, Michael On Christopher Street
DDC:
306.76/620973
Keywords:
Male homosexuality History
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Gay liberation movement History
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Gay men
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Gay men's writings, American History and criticism
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AIDS (Disease) Social aspects
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BIO031000
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Gay & Lesbian studies
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HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
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LGBTQ+ / Untersuchungen zu Homosexualität
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies
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Social & cultural history
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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USA
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Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA
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Homosexualität
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Homosexuellenbewegung
;
Homosexueller
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USA
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Geschichte 1970-2014
Abstract:
"As a founder and editor of the wildly influential magazine Christopher Street and then as the first openly gay editor at a mainstream publishing house, Michael Denneny critically shaped publishing around gay subjects and themes in the 1970s and 1980s. Authors whom he helped bring into the spotlight include Paul Monette, Randy Shilts, Ethan Mordden, Edmund White, Larry Kramer, and John Preston. Here he presents not a conventional memoir, but an assemblage of writings from the 1970s and 1980s (many previously unpublished) that illuminate the twists and turns of a period of great cultural and political ferment. Denneny's time machine of a book both preserves and brings back to life a vibrant period in American cultural history"--
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface : becoming real -- Part 1. Morning in gay America (1970-1980). Christopher Street magazine; Dead souls at the 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 -- 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 (1988-1890). 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 live : 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Zielgruppe: 5PS, Bezug zu Schwulen, Lesben und Bisexuellen
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Zielgruppe: 5S, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest
DOI:
10.7208/chicago/9780226824628.001.0001
URL:
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