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Steven F. Dansky launches CHRISTOPHER STREET PRESS
Forthcoming in January 2012 Print Editions & eBooks for iPad/iPhone
Steven F. Dansky began self-publishing in the mid-1960s, using a nonelectrical, hand-operated, Gestetner mimeograph machine. He cranked-out a bilingual community newsletter from his apartment at 170 East 2nd Street once occupied by the famous poet Allen Ginsberg. He distributed Peace/La Paz for 1˘ on the streets of New York City’s Lower Eastside. The mimeograph was called to action after the Stonewall Rebellion when he published a journal of poetry and essays titled, Faggotry, that attracted Jill Johnston wrote about in the Village Voice . In the early 1970s (along with John Knoebel and Kenneth Pitchford), he published Double-F: A Magazine of Effeminism, which historian Martin Duberman reviewed in The New York Times Magazine. In 2012, he will publishing as Christopher Street Press.
On Bearing Witness: Images & Reflections of the LGBT Movement (1969-1971)
Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition
“Steven Dansky has documented in photographs the origins of one of the great civil rights movements of our time, the struggle for gay and lesbian equality. The photographs that he’s collected and archived tell the story of how a ragtag group of gay hippies became a liberation movement in the early 1970’s. In a half-dozen photo essays published in The Gay & Lesbian Review (many of them collected in On Bearing Witness: Images and Reflections of the LGBT Movement (1969-1971), Dansky has shared this visual journey with our readers, providing insightful discussion to elucidate the photographs at hand.”
Richard Schneider Jr., Ph.D., editor-in-chief, Gay and Lesbian Review/Worldwide
In Public: Studies from the Street
“Portraits that speak to the life of a city by reflecting on its lesser-seen residents. . . . Draws on the work of the great 20th century photographers.”
Las Vegas Seven Magazine
More than 100 images shot in the American public square on streets from California to New York.
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