Representing some of the most talented writers at work today, the
26 original essays in Love, Christopher Street encompass revealing,
intense, profound, funny, personal, and queer reflections that span
forty years of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender life in the
Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Together
these essays create an LGBT love letter to New York City from
native New Yorkers, American transplants, and international
writers. This book continues the Lambda Award-winning series of
LGBT tributes to great cities. Just a few of the quintessentially
queer essays include the Rev. Irene Monroe's account of the hot
summer night in 1969 when she witnessed police raiding the
Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street and the drag queens who fought
back; Bob Smith's memoir of his life as an out stand-up comedian in
the 1980s and how he has kept his fierce humor while faced with the
diagnosis of ALS; Penny Arcade's saga of being a runaway in NYC and
taken in off the streets by gay men who introduced her to Warhol's
Factory; Ocean Vuong's chronicle of how he went from being a
couch-surfing college student to homeless in Penn Station; and
civil rights activist Brendan Fay reveals what took him all the way
from Ireland to "Finding Jesus on Christopher Street." Contributors
include Mark Ameen, Penny Arcade, Christopher Bram, Brendan Fay,
Thomas Glave, Jewelle Gomez, Aaron Hamburger, Martin Hyatt, Fay
Jacobs, G. Winston James, Michele Karlsberg, Shaun Levin, Amos Mac,
David McConnell, Val McDermid, Rev. Irene Monroe, Rabbi Andrea
Myers, Nicky Paraiso, Felice Picano, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Eddie
Sarfaty, Justine Saracen, Bob Smith, Shawn Syms, Charlie Vazquez,
Ocean Vuong, and Kathleen Warnock.
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