JACK FRITSCHER REFERENCED by OTHER WRITERS
	Sex Between Men by Douglas Sadownick Vamps and Tramps by Camille Paglia Index on Censorship for Free Expression, Vol 28 No. 6 Nov/Dec 1999 The Arena of Masculinity by Brian Pronger Gay by the Bay, Edited by Susan Stryker and Jim Van Buskirk Index on Censorship for Free Expression, Vol 26 No. 4 Jul/Aug 1997

	SEX BETWEEN MEN by DOUGLAS SADOWNICK HarperSanFrancisco, 1996 "an intimate history of the sex lives of gay men postwar to present" features a very positive scholarly look at Jack Fritscher's writing, particularly his much-quoted and referenced novel, Some Dance to Remember, as well as his autobiographical memoir of his lover Robert Mapplethorpe titled Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera.

			VAMPS & TRAMPS by CAMILLE PAGLIA A Vintage Original November 1994
	Camille Paglia's anthology of essays includes a full transcript of the CHANNEL 4 Broadcast of "The Penis Unsheathed." The Rapido TV production featured Jack Fritscher as Art Critic, Historian, and Social Critic discussing the penis in popular culture. An entire section of Vamps & Tramps features Fritscher speaking to Paglia's Platonic "Symposium." Camille Paglia: "I feel most fortunate to have an ongoing professional relationship with the brilliant producer-director Peter Stuart, whose staff and crew at Rapido TV in London have created four specials that I hosted on Channel 4, thanks to arts editor Waldemar Januszczak, over the past year and a half. Two of them, The Penis Unsheated and Lolita Unclothed, are in this book. Censorship is such in America, on both the left and right wings, that neither program could have been made for mainstream television here." -- Camille Paglia Research Comment: Although the index mentions Anne Rice and Jeffrey Dahmer, the index fails to list "Jack Fritscher."

	INDEX ON CENSORSHIP FOR FREE EXPRESSION Vol 28 No. 6 Nov/Dec 1999 Issue 191 Published by Writers & Scholars International Ltd., Lancaster House, 33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH Photograph titled "Mike Welder" by Jack Fritscher banned by British law from Edward Lucie-Smith's photo book for the "general public," Ars Erotica. Full-page reproduction of censored photograph, page 161. Earlier, "Mike Welder" was published, without objection because of its "non-general public" target audience, in the "gay" photobook, Jack Fritscher's American Men. Gay art is judged differently—if judged at all. The photograph is from the video "Uncut Muscle Mechanic: Mike Welder" at Palm Drive Video.

	THE ARENA OF MASCULINITY by Brian Pronger Conceptually leveraged and inspired by Jack Fritscher's cover and cover feature, "Gay Jock Sports," which filled 10 pages in Drummer #20, January 1978: "Gay Sports: Why Should Straight Guys Have All the Fun? The Gay Sports Revival-Fun, Fucking, and Politics." Developing Fritscher's theme of homomasculinity, Brian Pronger's images include Gay Games Physique Champion, Dan Dufort, in Gut Punchers Duo, a Jack Fritscher video for Palm Drive Video Pronger's cover art references Patrician Nell Warren's The Front Runner.

		GAY BY THE BAY Published by Chronicle Books Edited by Susan Stryker and Jim Van Buskirk
	Robert Mapplethorpe first visited San Francisco in 1968 "to find out if I'm gay once and for all." The trip represented a turning point; he returned to New York and immediately became involved with a young man. Mapplethorpe's 1978 photograph of S/M call boy "Elliott" was his first magazine cover and his only assignment for San Francisco-based Drummer, edited by Jack Fritscher, who later chronicled Mapplethorpe's life in Assault with a Deadly Camera. Mapplethorpe's debut San Francisco exhibition in February 1979 at the Simon Lowinsky Gallery included flower studies, portraits, and a few relatively innocuous sex pictures. The next month Censored;, featuring more explicit work that Mapplethorpe claimed was rejected for the previous show, opened at 80 Langton Street. A serives of scatalogical images shot in a Sausalito boathouse were among those specifically targeted for censure during the 1989 1990 controversy over Mapplethorpe's NEA-funded retrospective. Research comment: Authors Susan Stryker and Jim Van Buskirk and Chronicle Books commit two errors: 1) claiming Mapplethorpe's NEA-censored images in 1989-1990 were scatalogical photos: none of the photos on trial in Cincinnati was scatalogical; 2) reprinting Jack Fritscher's design of Robert Mapplethorpe's first magazine cover, Drummer 1978, without crediting Drummer, Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera or "Jack Fritscher" in their index.

		INDEX ON CENSORSHIP FOR FREE EXPRESSION Vol 26 No. 4 Jul/Aug 1997 Issue 177 Published by Writers & Scholars International Ltd., Lancaster House, 33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH In photo feature titled "Censorship UK" with 4 images by Andres Serrano, Edward Lucie-Smith, Delmas Howe, and Ludovico Carracci, the photograph titled "Mike Welder" by Jack Fritscher is banned by British law from Edward Lucie-Smith's photo book for the "general public," Ars Erotica. Full-page reproduction of censored photograph, page 181. Earlier, "Mike Welder" was published, without objection because of its "non-general public" target audience, in the "gay" photobook, Jack Fritscher's American Men. Gay art is judged differently—if judged at all. The photograph is from the video "Uncut Muscle Mechanic: Mike Welder" at www.PalmDriveVideo.com
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