Love, Christopher Street: Reflections of New York City

by Keith, Thomas; Bram, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9781936467341
• ISBN10: 1936467348
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-01
• Publisher: Vantage Pr

Summary

While the use of "Christopher Street" in the title is an immediate reference to gay New York City, the essays in this volume represent dozens of places in New York including the five boroughs, Queens, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island-and each of them speaks to the author's feelings about, and experience of, being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered in New York City. Chapters in this volume range from personal anecdote to memoir, reportage, diatribe, love letter, history, herstory, and daydream, as well as tributes to people, places, and events. Contributors include: Penny Arcade, Christopher Bram, Amie Evans, Brendan Fay, Thomas Glave, Jewel Gomez, Aaron Hamburger, Martin Hyatt, Fay Jacobs, G. Winston James, Michele Karlsburg, Shaun Levin, Amos Mac, David McConnell, Val McDermid, Rev. Irene Monroe, Nicky Paraiso, Felice Picano, Charles Rice-Gonzales, Eddie Safarty, Justine Saracen, Rakesh Satyal, Bob Smith, Shawn Syms, Charlie Vazquez, and Ocean Vuong, and Kathleen Warnock will interview Michael Musto.

Author Biography

Thomas Keith is an Editor, Author, and Teacher Who Has Lived on the Lower East Side of New York Since 1985.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Silence =Death: The Education of a Comedian	p. 19
An Old Queen's Tale	p. 43
The Isle of Staten	p. 63
Finding Jesús on Christopher Street	p. 77
Dis-membering Stonewall	p. 93
Before I Begin	p. 103
A Bite of the Big Apple	p. 113
Irrespective of the Storm	p. 127
My Last Big Addiction	p. 149
My Family Tree	p. 161
The Opera Singer's Pants, and How I Got In Them	p. 171
The Sum of Our Parts	p. 183
The Myths of this Place	p. 191
The Voices	p. 201
As I Stood Frying…	p. 211
Borders, Rivers and Time: Gay Gotham Revisited	p. 221
White Angel/Pale Blue Eyes	p. 233
My Gay New York: A Symphony in Four Acts	p. 245
The Place I Parked My Car	p. 259
Bad Boy	p. 275
Two Near Water-And One Very Quiet	p. 291
Goodnight, New York: A Sermon on the Move	p. 303
In the House of Strangers	p. 313
A 1986 Bronx Story	p. 331
Perry Street Redux	p. 349
An Interview with Michael Musto	p. 361
Next Year at Sonny's	p. 367
Contributors	p. 393
Acknowledgments	p. 405
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