The great CHRISTOPHER STREET magazine debuts under the guidance of founder and publisher Michael Denneny.
In 1976, Mr. Denneny and Chuck Ortleb started Christopher Street, a monthly magazine that would publish fiction and nonfiction by gay writers for the next 19 years. It was a risky personal move for Mr. Denneny, the rare openly gay editor in a publishing industry in which many gay and lesbian editors were still closeted.
The unapologetically, LGBT-oriented magazine published in New York City was known both for its serious discussion of issues within the LGBT community and its satire of anti-homosexual criticism. It was one of the two most-widely read Gay-issues publications in the United States. Christopher Street printed 231 issues before closing its doors in December of 1995.