Frontis - PDF - Flip
Introduction – CHASING DRUMMER by Jack Fritscher - PDF - Text - Flip
Chapter 1 – A MASTER’S THESIS: DRUMMER’S BIG BANG - PDF - Text - Flip
Its Creation. Its Evolution. Its Civil War. Its Culture
- Who Founded and Created Drummer? An Eyewitness Narrative Timeline Featuring the Cast of Characters at Drummer
- The Drummer “Slave Auction,” Saturday, April 10, 1976, Publisher John Embry Arrested for the Crime of Slavery; Val Martin, the First “Mr. Drummer,” Tells All
- How Los Angeles Drummer Became San Francisco Drummer
- Blood, Fingerprints, and DNA: History Is the Internal Evidence Printed in the Drummer Text
- Buyer’s Remorse and Seller’s Remorse; the Cloning of Drummer
- Blood Feud: How the Second and Third Publishers of Drummer, Anthony DeBlase and Martijn Bakker, Reviled First Publisher John Embry Who Reviled Them Both; The Contempt between John Embry and Larry Townsend
Chapter 2 – DIRTY ISSUES: SOME DRUMMER COVERS - PDF - Text - Flip
Selected by Artist, Photographer, Or Model
- The Drummer Salon in the Titanic 1970s: The Power of the Drummer Editorial Desk, Sam Steward, Jim Kane, Robert Opel, Al Shapiro, and an Iconic Dinner Party Hosting Tom of Finland
- Shooting Drummer Covers: Robert Mapplethorpe, Lou Thomas, David Sparrow, Robert Opel, and Jack Fritscher
- Why Tom of Finland Never Appeared on the Cover of Drummer While Embry Owned It
- Gay Marriage, Leather-Style: 1976
- Gay Face Uncloseted: “Tough Customers” and “Tough Shit”
Chapter 3 – LEATHER PERVERSATILITY - PDF - Text - Flip
- Counter-phobic Lust: How Gay Men Sexualize “Bully Cops” as “Fetish Tops” from the LAPD to the Academy Training Center
- Charles Manson, Patty Hearst, and the Great Drummer Slave Auction Raid
- Anita Bryant Ignites the Culture War; The Advocate and The National Enquirer Trash Drummer
- Photographic Censorship in Cincinnati, the Most Puritan City in the USA
- Mapplethorpe and Schwarzenegger: Political Censorship on eBay
Chapter 4 – FOUNDING DRUMMER - PDF - Text - Flip
- How the H.E.L.P. Newsletter for Legal Protection Morphed into H.E.L.P/Drummer, and Evolved into Drummer Itself
- When Frenemies Collide: The Feud between the Heroic Larry Townsend and the Hubristic John Embry
- The LA Postal Inspector; Jeanne Barney, the Woman Who Was Not A Drag; and the Missing TV Footage of the Slave Auction Raid
- Gay Cannibalism: Steve Schoch’s Eyewitness Testimony about Embry and Townsend at H.E.L.P./Drummer
- The Con-Man Shell Game: the Black Pipe Bar, the Mark IV Baths, and Making a Private “Slave Auction” Public
Chapter 5 – SEX, RACE, AND GENDER - PDF - Text - Flip
- Drummer Tests Community Standards: Sex, Race, and Gender; Fisting; Coprophagia; the Gay Nazi Party That Sued Drummer; and the Effeminists
- Oscar-Streaker Robert Opel, Photographer and Writer for Drummer, Is Murdered
- The S&M Murder Mystery and S&M Sex Rings: LA Serial Killer Outwits LAPD Chief Ed Davis Who Confuses the Manson Family Sex Slaves and the Symbionese Liberation Front with Emerging Gay Leather Biker Culture
- Censorship and Forbidden BDSM Films: Fred Halsted’s Sextool, Roger Earl and Terry LeGrand’s Born to Raise Hell (1974), and Steve Toushin’s Videos Defended by Drummer
- Bound for Europe: Reality-TV Video Series of Extreme BDSM
- Arthur Evans and the Politically Correct Begin to Notice the Pioneering Uncloseting of “Masculinities” and “Homomasculinity” in the Masculine-Identified Drummer
Chapter 6 – DUTCH TREAT: WHO’S DRIVING DRUMMER? - PDF - Text - Flip
- Post-Homophobic Stress Disorder (PHSD) and Reparations to Gay Folk
- The McCarren Act (1950) Legalizing USA Censorship and American Concentration Camps Has Never Been Repealed
- Drummer: “The American Review of Gay Popular Culture” and Other Tag Lines
- Wickie Stamps, the Second Female editor of Drummer
- Robert Davolt: The Last Editor of Drummer
- Embry’s Unsustainable Drummer: The Cancer of Two Lovers, an Office Full of Fistfuckers, and One Colostomy
- The Drummer Personal Ads Were the “Facebook” of Their Time
Chapter 7 – THE DRUMMER SALON - PDF - Text - Flip
- Declaring Homosexuality a Religion Protected by the Constitution
- The Manic-Depressive 1970s: Gay Saints; Gay Civil War; the Printer as Censor
- Blasphemy: The Outer Limit of the Radical Avant Garde; Jesus Christ Superstar; Kenneth Anger; the Satanic Mapplethorpe; and “Jesus D’Pressed”
- Man2Man Quarterly: “Virtual Drummer”
- East Coast-West Coast Literary Rivalry: New Yorkers Try to “Manhattanize” San Francisco
- Allegedly: Kramer, Picano, White, and the Violet Quill; Sasha Alyson; Elizabeth Gershman, and Knights Press
- Erotica: The Essence of Gay Literature
- Despite Feminist Fantasy, Anne Rice Never Wrote for Drummer
Chapter 8 – THE MAFIA: STRAIGHT AND GAY AND MAYBE NOT - PDF - Text - Flip
- Editor-in-Chief Tunes Up Drummer Issues 19-33, 1977-1980
- From “Old Guard Leather” to the “New Gender of Homomasculinity”
- Sashes to Ashes: The Mr. Drummer Contest and HIV
- Verite Style: Making Drummer Reflect Self-Identifying Homomasculine Readers
- Embry’s Grudges Become His Blacklist That Poisons the Lineage of Leather Descent
- Eyewitnesses Robert Davolt, Rick Leathers, Steven Saylor
- The Mafia: “Guido Lust,” Tony Tavarossi, and the Invention of the Leather Bar
Chapter 9 – STEALING DRUMMER: AN ORIGIN STORY OF GAY MAIL-ORDER - PDF - Text - Flip
- Copyright War: Protecting Writers, Photographers, Artists, and Heirs
- David Begelman: Hollywood Studio “Money Scandal” Impacts San Francisco Drummer
- Richard Locke and Daddies: Turning a Man’s Age into Erotic Fetish
- Gay Culture: Entrapped by Law and Then by AIDS
- Mail-Order Pioneers Create 20th-Century Gay America: Bob Mizer, AMG Studio, Chuck Renslow and Etienne, Kris Studio Larry Townsend, LT Publications, David Hurles, Old Reliable Studio
- Author Daniel Curzon: An Eyewitness to History Testifies about Embry
Chapter 10 – THE DRUMMER CURSE: WHY I NEVER BOUGHT DRUMMER - PDF - Text - Flip
- The Drummer Curse of Debt, Disease, and Death: What Happened to People Who Owned Drummer
- Leather Heritage: Blacklist Lies Revise Drummer History
- 3 Roberts: Mapplethorpe, Opel, and Davolt
- John W. Rowberry: Son of Embry, Bane of Barney
- Franken-Drummer: Embry Tries to Reanimate the Past in His New Monster of a Magazine: Super MR
- Drummer Purpose: Normalizing the Leather Fringe of Gay Culture
- Cash and Copyright: Brush Creek Media and Bear Magazine
- Cynthia Slater and Frank Sammut: The Catacombs Wedding
Chapter 11 – RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHIVES - PDF - Text - Flip
- Eyewitness Queen Cougar: Why Mr. Marcus Shamed Robert Davolt
- Starting Tony DeBlase’s “Passion Project”: “A Leather Timeline” for the Leather Archives & Museum
- Leather History Video Interviews: Founders of the Ambush Bar, the CMC Carnival, and the Jaguar Bookstore; Plus African-American Leather Life in 1960s SOMA
- Drummer Editor Joseph W. Bean and Drummer Photographer David Sparrow
- Three Crises Change Drummer: Slave Auction Arrest (1976), HIV (1982), and the Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989)
Chapter 12 – DRUMMER ROOTS IN THE SWINGING SIXTIES - PDF - Text - Flip
- The Prague Spring 1968: Student Protests against Vietnam War Sweep World
- 1968 Shootings: Martin Luther King Jr. (April.4); Andy Warhol (June 3); Robert Kennedy (June 5)
- Feminist Separatist Valerie Solanas Shoots Warhol and Leatherman Mario Amaya; Reaction to Solanas’s “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), Introducing Concept of “Homomasculinity”
- August 1968: Chicago Police Riot at Democratic Convention: Citizens Fight Brutal Cops, Igniting the Fuse on the Stonewall Rebellion Ten Months Later
- John Embry Trashes DeBlase’s “Leather Timeline” and DeBlase’s Pet Project: the Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago
- Guide to Photographs of Some Staff in Drummer
Chapter 13 – ANNUS MIRABILIS 1979 - PDF - Text - Flip
- 1978-1979 Eyewitness Drummer Timeline: Fulsome Details of Folsom Street
- 2 Guns: Harvey Milk Assassination (27 November 1978) plus Robert Opel Murder (July 8, 1979) Both 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; Meeting Mark Hemry at Harvey Milk’s Birthday Party, and Outing Gay Cowboys with Randy Shilts
- December 31, 1979: Fritscher Exits Drummer having edited Drummer issues from 18 to 33
Chapter 14 – BACKSTAB! THE BACK-STAGE DRUMMER MUSICAL - PDF - Text - Flip
- Drummer Editors Joseph W. Bean, John W. Rowberry, Robert Davolt
- Slave Boys, Wannabes, and the GLBT Historical Society
- The Dutch Connection: Who Killed Drummer?
- Eyewitness Mister Marcus
Chapter 15 – REQUIRED READING - PDF - Text - Flip
- Apartheid and Segregation: Politically Correct LGBT Terrorists Kill Gay Liberation
- Are there 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.”
- Robert Mapplethorpe, Urvashi Vaid, and a Gender Fight for The Advocate cover, “Person of the Year”
- Gender Satire: The Red Queen Arthur Evans versus Drummer
Chapter 16 – DRUMMER: FIRST VICTIM OF THE CULTURE WAR - PDF - Text - Flip
- Born (Again) to Raise Hell: End-Time Christians vs. Satanic Drummer
- The Advocate Prejudice Against Leather Culture and Gay Masculine Identity
- Leather Contests: International Mr. Leather (IML) Begets Mr. Drummer
- Leather Immigrant: Val Martin, First “Mr. Drummer”
- John Embry’s Lover from Spain, Mario Simon: “Evita” as “Mrs. Drummer”
- Photographer Lionel Biron: Social Justice, Gay Liberation, and The Advocate
- Drummer Stars: JimEd Thompson, Chris Burns, Scott O’Hara
Chapter 17 – WHEN QUEERS COLLIDE - PDF - Text - Flip
Leather Historians: Critical Thinking and Fact-Checking Drummer, the First Draft of Leather History
Independent Authors and Corporate Gay Publishers
- Wild Tim Barrus: From Editor of Drummer Magazine to Author at Esquire Magazine
- MGM Star Ann Miller, Publisher Elizabeth Gershman, and the Kennedy Family
- Edmund White and Larry Kramer Thrown Out of the Key West Writers Conference
- Embry Shames Jeanne Barney, the Founding Los Angeles Editor-in-Chief of Drummer
- Mach Magazine: Mach Is Short for Machiavelli
Chapter 18 – VENOM NEVER DIES - PDF - Text - Flip
- Unknown to GLBT Readers, Wicked Grudges Poison the Well of Gay Culture with Publishers of Books, Magazines, Newspapers, Archives, and Websites
- Feuding, Fussing, and Fighting: Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry Townsend, John Rowberry, John Preston, Mr. Benson, Frank Hatfield, Rick Leathers, Jim French, Colt Studio
- Embry vs. the LAPD, David Goodstein, The Advocate, LA Publishing Peers, Other Gay Magazines, His Own Talent Pool of Writers and Artists, as Well as Drummer Publisher #2, Anthony F. DeBlase, and Drummer Publisher #3, Martijn Bakker
- Embry’s Final Grudge: Against Drummer Itself
Chapter 19 – VIRTUAL DRUMMER - PDF - Text - Flip
- Some Virtual Drummer Magazines: Man2Man Quarterly, California Action Guide (San Francisco), Patrick Califia’s Newsleather, Tony DeBlase’s DungeonMaster, Harold Cox’s Checkmate
- Drumb and Drumber: Fritscher’s Satiric, Special “Mad Magazine” Issue of Drummer (Issue 138)
- Desperate DeBlase Dumps Drummer on Dutchman and Davolt
Appendix 1 – A QUICK WHO'S WHO IN DRUMMER - PDF - Text - Flip
Appendix 2 – DRUMMER MAGAZINE TIMELINE BIBLIOGRAPHY -PDF - Text - Flip
Index - PDF