Aphrodisiac : fiction from Christopher Street
- Title
- Aphrodisiac : fiction from Christopher Street
- Description
- This anthology of “the best fiction from Christopher Street” was praised for its “literary excellence” by ‘Publishers Weekly’. It compiles eighteen short stories published in “America’s leading gay magazine”, from authors including Jane Rule, Edmund White, Tennessee Williams and Kate Millett. The magazine, named after the location of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, was founded in 1976 and published monthly until the mid-1990s. As well as original fiction, it featured writing on gay politics and culture, interviews and satirical cartoons. A series of essays about the unfolding AIDS crisis in New York by Andrew Holleran – one of the featured authors in this collection – was later published as ‘Ground Zero’.
- Location
- London (England)
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date
- 1984
- Tags
- AIDS Awareness
- Anthologies
- Christopher Street (Magazine)
- Edmund White (1940-)
- Gay Fiction
- Gay Men
- Gay Short Stories
- HIV/AIDS
- Jane Chambers (1937-1983)
- Lesbian Fiction
- Lesbian Short Stories
- Lesbians
- LGBTQ+ Fiction
- LGBTQ+ Short Stories
- Stonewall Riots
- Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
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