Christopher Street

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Background

Interview with Christoper Street’s first art director, Rick Fiala: Rick Fiala, art director: Christopher Street, 1976-1979

“Christopher Street was the first slick national gay magazine, founded in 1976 in New York City. It was originally conceived as a gay version of The New Yorker, with illustrated covers without headlines, and text-heavy pages of reviews and cultural essays, broken up with cartoons.”

Collected issues

Christopher Street, December 1981

1. Christopher Street, 59, vol. 5 no. 11 (December 1981)
2. Christopher Street, 60, vol. 5 no. 12 (February 1982)
3. Christopher Street, 61, vol. 6 no. 1 (February 1982)
4. Christopher Street, 62, vol. 6 no. 2 (March 1982)
5. Christopher Street, 63, vol. 6 no. 3 (April 1982)
6. Christopher Street, 70, vol. 6 no. 10 (November 1982)
7. Christopher Street, 71, vol. 6 no. 11 (December 1982)
8. Christopher Street, 73, vol. 7 no. 1 (February 1983)
9. Christopher Street, 74, vol. 7 no. 2 (March 1983)
10. Christopher Street, 75, vol. 7 no. 3 (April 1983)
11. Christopher Street, 78, vol. 7 no. 6 (July 1983)
12. Christopher Street, 79, vol. 7 no. 7 (August 1983)