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Jun 8, 2009
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Fritscher, Jack. "Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer", 2009.
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Sex, Art, Salon, Pop Culture and Gay History
Amos Lassen
Jack Fritscher was the editor-in chief of "Drummer" Magazine, a magazine that included fiction, nonfiction, interviews, photography and film and video was one of a kind. It came into being in the 1970s and was one of the few reflections of gay life. This book is a collection of the best of "Drummer". It includes feature articles and fiction, an extensive bibliography, cover photographs, sex, art, gay history, interviews and reviews. I found it to be a nostalgic trip.
Fritscher was editor for 25 years and his comments are amazing. He began with "Drummer" in 1977 and he decided that the magazine should be reader-reflective. The magazine carried stories on gay liberation and it examined the movement as it grew. He also included drawings and photographs of men as the red-blooded animals that they are. However, Fritscher's main goal was eroticism. The magazine was to be recreational and fun.
The book is a book of documents from "Drummer" and it is incredible. For me it brought back great memories and is a wonderful way to look at how we lived once when the times were very much different.
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I am an academic who reivews movies and books of interest to the GLBT and Jewish communities. I came to Arkansas after having been relocated here due to Hurricane Katrina. I was living in … more
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Eyewitness Fritscher, the lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, breaks the trance of received gay history. In this timeline archive of art, sex, obscenity, gender, and gay mafia, 21st-century readers will get up to speed fast on the serious fun of who did what to whom when and why. In the Titanic 1970s, longtimeDrummereditor Fritscher added erotic realism to the magical thinking ofDrummerreaders wanting a magazine that made newly liberated sex seem possible and accessible. Based on internal evidence inDrummer, journals, diaries, letters, photos, interviews, recordings, and newspapers, this ultimate insider s guide to the Rise and Fall of Castro and Folsom Streets is a risky ride that brings back what a thrill it was to pick up your first issue ofDrummer. Fritscher s frisson anchors San Francisco s wild Gay Lib history on the clear chronology of the legendary monthlyDrummer. Academia meets pop culture! Fritscher is the Ken Burns ofDrummermagazine. Fritscher has done the research work most academics won t do thus ensuring that historians, critics and anthropologists will cut and paste with delight for years to come. Fritscher reads gloriously!San Francisco Chronicle
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ISBN-10:
1890834386
ISBN-13:
978-1890834388
Author:
Jack Fritscher
Publisher:
Palm Drive Publishing
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