INTRODUCTION by Mark Hemry

FOREWORD by Jack Fritscher: “Some Dance to Remember. Some Don’t.”

SUMMARY–QUICK TIMELINE AND CAST OF CHARACTERS: The Leather Evolution

Chapter 1 – A MASTER’S THESIS: DRUMMER’S BIG BANG. Its Creation. Its Evolution. Its Civil War. Its Culture

• Eyewitness “Narrative Timeline of Drummer
• The “Great Slave Auction,” Saturday, April 10, 1976, Publisher John Embry Arrested for the Crime of Slavery
• How Los Angeles Drummer Became San Francisco Drummer
• Blood, Fingerprints, Skidmarks, and DNA: History Is the Internal Evidence Printed in Drummer Text

Chapter 2 – SOME DRUMMER COVERS: Selected by Artist, Photographer, Or Model

• The Drummer Salon in the Titanic 70s
• Shooting Drummer Covers: Robert Mapplethorpe, Lou Thomas, David Sparrow, and Jack Fritscher
• Why Tom of Finland Never Appeared on the Cover of Drummer
• Uncloseting the Gay Face: “Tough Customers” and “Tough Shit”

Chapter 3 – LEATHER NOIR: Homophobia LAPD-Style

• Cops as Homomasculine Fetish: From LA to the Training Center
• Larry Townsend, H.E.L.P., and the LAPD Raid on the Black Pipe Bar, the “Biggest Raid in LA Since Prohibition” Screams The Advocate (Drummer 3, page 37)
• The National Enquirer in Anita Bryant's Florida Trashes Drummer in California
• Censorship in Cincinnati, the Most Puritan City in the USA

Chapter 4 – DRUMMER SETS FIRE TO THE REICH-WING CULTURE WAR

• How the H.E.L.P. Newsletter for the “Homophile Effort for Legal Protection” Becomes Drummer
• The Helix between John Embry and Larry Townsend, Founding President of the Hollywood Hills Democratic Club
• The Postal Inspector, the Woman Who Was Not A Drag, and the Missing TV Footage of the “Slave Auction” Raid
• What Happened to the GLBT Scholars Studying Drummer

Chapter 5 – SEX, RACE, AND GENDER: 25 Ways Drummer Angered Law and Morality

• Drummer Tests Community Standards: Sex, Race, and Gender Plus Fisting, Coprophagia, and the Gay Nazi Party
• Oscar-Streaker Robert Opel, Photographer and Writer for Drummer, Is Murdered
• The S&M Murder Mystery: Gay Serial Killer
• Forbidden Leather Films: Fred Halsted’s Sextool, Roger Earl and Terry LeGrand’s Born to Raise Hell
• Keywords of S&M Homolexicology: This is How to Spell Cum

Chapter 6 – WHO’S DRIVING DRUMMER?

• Homophobia and Gay Stress: William Bradford, Little Tommy Granger, Two Goats, and Diverse Sheep
• Erich Segal’s Love Story Goes Gay and Unrequited: The Cancer of Two Lovers, an Office Full of Fistfuckers, and One Rumored Colostomy
• Drummer: “The American Review of Gay Popular Culture”
• Some Women around Drummer

Chapter 7 – THE DRUMMER SALON: On the 69th Day, God Created Queers

• Declaring Homosexuality a Religion Protected by the Constitution
• The Manic-Depressive 1970s: Gay Saints, Gay Civil War, and the Printer as Censor
• East Coast Immigrants Like Harvey Milk Try to Manhattanize San Francisco
• Anne Rice Never Wrote for Drummer

Chapter 8 – THE MAFIA: Straight and Gay

• Editor in Chief Tunes up Drummer Issues 19-30
• From “Old Leather” to “New Gender of Homomasculinity”
• Mr. Drummer Contest and HIV: Sashes to Ashes
• Verite Style: Making Drummer Reflect Self-Fashioning Homomasculine Readers
• Grudges Become Blacklist
• Eyewitnesses Rick Leathers, Steven Saylor, Robert Davolt
• Geppetto to Pinocchio, “Save Yourself”

Chapter 9 – STEALING DRUMMER

• Copyright: Protecting Writers, Photographers, Artists, and Heirs as Owners of Intellectual Property
• Mail-Order Empires Service Gay America: AMG Studios, Kris Studio, The Advocate, Larry Townsend, Old Reliable David Hurles, and Drummer
• When Gays Collide: 1950s Generation of Camp vs 1970s Liberation of Sex

Chapter 10 – THE DRUMMER CURSE: Why I Never Bought Drummer

• The Shit That Happened to People Who Owned Drummer: Debt, Disease, and Death
• Leather Heritage: Blacklist Lies Revise Drummer History
• 3 Roberts: Mapplethorpe, Opel, Plus/Minus Davolt
• Rowberry: “Son of Embry, Bane of Barney”
• Internet: “Influential Jews in the Degenerate Homosexual Movement”
• Drummer Normalizes the Leather Fringe of Gay Culture

Chapter 11 – THE SECRET PROTOCOLS OF EMBRY

• Davolt and Davoltage: Embry’s Revisionist Agenda Short-Circuits Facts of Timeline by Crossing Davolt’s Wiring
• That Ship Has Sailed: Gays Who Came Out after 1980 and Covet the Titanic 70s Party They Missed
• For Sale: Grave Robbers Pillage Art Files and Vaults of Drummer
• Drummer Crises: Slave Auction Arrest (1976), HIV (1982), Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989)

Chapter 12 – DRUMMER ROOTS: The Revolution of 1968 Ignites Stonewall Rebellion (June 1969) and the Golden Age of Leather (1970-1982)

• The Prague Spring 1968: Student Protests Sweep World
• June 3, 1968: Valerie Solanas Shoots Andy Warhol and Leatherman Mario Amaya; Reaction to Solanas’ “Society for Cutting Up Men” and Her SCUM Manifesto Brings Masculine-Identified Men Out of the Closet, and Ignites “Gay Civil War” over Gender(s)
• August 1968: The Police Riot at the Democratic Convention Causes Citizens in Streets to Fight Back
• Unable to Control or Revise Drummer Publisher DeBlase’s Famous Leather-History Timeline, Embry Debases DeBlase’s Pet Project, the Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago
• Guide to Photographs of Staff and Contributors in Drummer

Chapter 13 – ANNUS MIRABILIS 1979: An Annotated Desk Calendar–Memento Mori

• 1978-1979 Eyewitness Drummer Timeline: Fulsome with Detail
• 2 Guns: Milk ( November 1978) Assassination and Opel Murder (July 8, 1979) Impact Drummer; Fritscher Turns Down Job as Deputy Sheriff of San Francisco
• Fritscher Desk Calendar: Editing Drummer; Dating Robert Mapplethorpe and Introducing His Photography into Leather Culture; Colt Models Chuck Romanski and Dan Pace; Bodybuilder Champ Jim Enger; the Artist Domino; Mark Hemry at Harvey Milk’s Birthday Party, and Outing Gay Cowboys with Randy Shilts
• December 31, 1979: Fritscher Exits Drummer

Chapter 14 – BACKSTAB! The Backstage Musical

• Slave Boys, Wannabes, and the GLBT Historical Society
• The Dutch Connection: Who Killed Drummer?
• Eyewitness Mister Marcus

Chapter 15 – REQUIRED READING: Drummer Alternative to Sissy Stereotype

• Politically Correct GLBT Terrorists Abridge Gay Liberation
• Leather Nazis: Richard Goldstein, “S&M: The Dark Side of Gay Liberation,” Village Voice, July 7, 1975
• Homomasculinity: Philip Nobile, “The Meaning of Gay: An Interview with Dr. C. A. Tripp,” New York Magazine, June 25, 1979: “50% of all young boys eroticize male attributes....90% of homosexuals show no effeminacy.”

Chapter 16 – DRUMMER: FIRST VICTIM OF THE CULTURE WAR

• Born (Again) to Raise Hell: End-Time Christians vs. Satanic Drummer
• The Advocate vs. Leather Culture
• Leather Contests: International Mr. Leather Begets Mr. Drummer
• Leather Immigrant: Val Martin as “Mr. Drummer”
• Mario Simon: “Evita” as “Mrs. Drummer”

Chapter 17 – WHEN QUEERS COLLIDE

• Tim Barrus: From Drummer to Esquire Magazine
• Sasha Alyson: Gay Mafia “Extortion” of Small Publishers
• MGM Star Ann Miller
• Caveat Emptor: Embry Misleads Drummer History with Disinformation
• Mach Magazine: Mach Is Short for Machiavelli

Chapter 18 – DECONSTRUCTING THE BLACKLIST

• “HazMat Grudges” Poison the Well of Gay Culture with Publishers of Books, Magazines, and Newspapers; at Archives and at Websites
• Robert Mapplethorpe, John Rowberry, John Preston, Mr. Benson, Frank Hatfield, Rick Leathers, Jim French, Colt Studio
• Embry vs. the LAPD, The Advocate, His LA Publishing Peers, Other Gay Magazines, His Talent Pool of Writers and Artists, and Drummer Publisher #2, Anthony F. DeBlase

Chapter 19 – VIRTUAL DRUMMER

• Some Virtual Drummer Magazines: Man2Man Quarterly, California Action Guide (San Francisco), Patrick Califia’s Newsleather, DeBlase’s DungeonMaster, Harold Cox’s Checkmate, and The Leather Journal
• Drumb and Drumber: A Special Mad Magazine Issue of Drummer
• Desperate DeBlase Dumps Drummer on Dutchman and Davolt

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