Badpuppy Gay Today |
Friday, 07 November 1997 |
America's big guns of book publishing, politics and the press were out in force Wednesday night to celebrate the publication of Charles Kaiser's The Gay Metropolis, his long awaited history of gay life in New York City (1940-1996), just out from Houghton Mifflin. (See this month's GayToday Interview.) An unprecedented crowd of notables partied in the Central Park West home of New Yorker writer (and ex- New York Times architecture critic) Paul Goldberger and his wife Susan Solomon and was co-hosted by Lazard Freres honcho Steve Rattner and his wife Maureen White. Among a stellar cast of guests were newly-named New York Times chairman (and publisher) Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and his wife Gail Gregg, former-New York City Mayor and People's Court Judge Ed Koch, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter (and his colleagues Wayne Lawson and Elise O'Shaughnessy). Well-known authors present included Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, Susan Brownmiller, Jean Strouse, Peter Pringle, James B. Stewart and Patricia Bosworth. CBS News President Andrew Heyward attended too. |
Kaiser, a former reporter for the Times and the Wall Street Journal, also greeted New York Times editorial page editor Howell Raines, culture editor John Darnton, senior editor Rich Meislin, book columnist Martin Arnold, reporter David Dunlap, veteran national and foreign correspondent John Kifner, former Times reporters Myron Farber, Grace Lichtenstein and Marcia Chambers, Wall Street Journal Page One Editor John Brecher, and his wife Journal reporter Dorothy Gaiter as well as Journal editor and reporter Laura Landro. From Washington, there was Kaiser's brother, Washington Post managing editor Bob Kaiser, and Kaiser's father Phil, ex-U.S. Ambassador to Austria and Hungary (and his wife Hannah), and Post columnist Richard Cohen. Goldberger toasted Kaiser's "loyalty," "intelligence" and"criticism--which can sometimes be acute." Kaiser responded with a toast to his hosts, and his family. He also singled out Sulzberger and his wife Gail as having done "more than anyone" to improve the status of gay people in journalism. |
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