Aphrodisiac: Fiction from Christopher Street

Author: Christopher Street, with contributions by Edmund White, Tennessee Williams, Kate Millett, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, Jane Rule and others
Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: First edition, 1980
ISBN: 0698110358 / 9780698110359

Condition: Good vintage second-hand hardcover condition with visible shelf wear, rubbing and handling marks to the dust jacket. There is some chipping and wear to the jacket edges, especially near the top of the spine, along with foxing to the page edges. Binding appears firm and pages appear clean and readable. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Aphrodisiac: Fiction from Christopher Street is an anthology of gay short fiction drawn from Christopher Street, the influential New York gay literary magazine founded in the years after Stonewall.

About the Author:

Christopher Street was a landmark American gay literary magazine, founded in 1976 and active through the late twentieth century. It published fiction, essays, criticism, humour and cultural commentary by many important LGBTQ+ writers. This anthology preserves a selection of fiction from the magazine’s early years, showing the range and vitality of post-Stonewall gay literary writing.

This collection brings together eighteen stories by major and emerging voices in late twentieth-century gay writing, including Edmund White, Tennessee Williams, Kate Millett, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano and Jane Rule. The stories move across desire, humour, loneliness, intimacy, urban gay life, post-Stonewall identity, and the complexity of queer experience in the 1970s.