Archive - Blake Smith

Lovers: a Podcast of Two Men

David and I have a new podcast episode out about one of our favorite items from Christopher Street, “Lovers: the Story of Two Men” (1978), a double…

Jun 2 • Blake Smith

May 2026

'A Whole New Race of Fun-Loving Amazons'

Sontag, Vidal, Rechy, Baldwin

May 20 • Blake Smith

Canceling(,) Cruising

David and I have a new podcast episode out with Domenic DeSocio* on Christopher Street editor Charles Ortleb’s campaign against the movie Cruising. I…

May 19 • Blake Smith

please microwave this letter

May 5 • Blake Smith

April 2026

Boyd McDonald on George Stambolian

"the best writing in our culture is on men's room walls"

Apr 30 • Blake Smith

Sleeping with the Moral Majority

David and I have a new podcast episode out, discussing, with guest Daniel Lefferts, a 1982 article “Sleeping with the Moral Majority” in which a…

Apr 21 • Blake Smith

"The Judy Garland Memorial Bowling League," or "a lungful of stale man-sweat"

Apr 17 • Blake Smith

Patrick Merla's "Poetry & Art"

this is your last thin moment

Apr 17 • Blake Smith

James Schuyler in Christopher Street

Michael Lally is a fine/ poet and looks straight/ into your eyes

Apr 8 • Blake Smith

Seymour Kleinberg goes to Brazil

tudo com muita CLASSE

Apr 7 • Blake Smith

March 2026

Jerry Janosco and "gay sensibility"

"from Cubism to Pubism"

Mar 27 • Blake Smith

"an unintimidating member of the same gender"

Mar 24 • Blake Smith