Skydiving on Christopher Street

Stan Leventhal paints a picture of Christopher Street in the 80s and 90s. The streets became ours again. When the fag-bashers began to get bold to slither from their slimy lairs the young gay guys and fledgling lesbians fought back. There was a new war to win along with battles of fear ignorance and indifference... But now the streets belong to us again. We paid for it with our muscles our brains our bodily fluids. It has our names written all over it. Our blood fills the cracks in the pavement. Its ours and were never going to give it up.Against that backdrop we see the pieces of an ordinary life. Hes an editor for a porn publishing house - its not glamorous its just work. His relationship is on the verge of ending. He is visited by the ghosts of friends he has lost to AIDS. In the midst of the familiar days he learns from his doctor that he too has AIDS.Leventhals final novel was produced in 1995. This new edition features a foreword by Paras Borgohain who is currently writing a screenplay for the novel.