Gay Pioneers: How Drummer Magazine Shaped Gay Popular Culture 1965-1999 by Jack Fritscher

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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

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