WINNER! Independent Press Award: LGBT Nonfiction
DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE! NYC Big Book Award: LGBT Nonfiction
PINNACLE BOOK ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: LGBT Nonfiction
Jack Fritscher, the founding San Francisco editor-in-chief of Drummer magazine and curator of the Drummer Archives since 1977, is the award-winning author of twenty books popular with readers and researchers including memoirs of his bicoastal lover Robert Mapplethorpe, his friend Larry (Leatherman’s Handbook) Townsend, and his ‘gentleman caller’ Tennessee Williams. His new Profiles is holistic gay history written by a New Journalist who lived the life.
In essays, interviews, and photos, Fritscher’s masterful writing sheds new Gay Pride light on authentic leatherfolk founders, icons, and superstars too often under-reported by gatekeepers of gay-history timelines: AIDS poet, Thom Gunn; race-sex-and-gender photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe; Society of Janus founder, Cynthia Slater; Mineshaft manager, Wally Wallace; godfather of gay writing, Samuel Steward; young Provincetown playwright, Tennessee Williams; filmmaker Wakefield Poole’s art-director, Ed Parente; Old Reliable Video hustler-art photographer, David Hurles; leather fashion designer, Rob of Amsterdam; and the filmmakers of the 1975 classic Born to Raise Hell, Terry Le Grand and Roger Earl.
With his first gay writing (on James Dean) published in 1962, Fritscher at 83 reaches across 60 years of gay life into his journals and heart to examine our lost midcentury world as he did in Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982 which The Advocate called the ‘Gay Gone With the Wind.’
GMSMA president-historian David Stein confirmed to the Leather Leadership Conference that ‘Fritscher, one of the great Drummer editors, seems to have been everywhere and done everyone during the ‘good old days’ of leather culture.’
Inhoudsopgave
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE: Fetishes, Faces, and Flowers of Evil
CYNTHIA SLATER: Kink Queen of Folsom Street
THE JANUS SOCIETY: BDSM Boys And Girls Together
SAMUEL STEWARD: The Talented Mr. Steward
THE MINESHAFT: Legendary Twentieth-Century Sex Club
WALLY WALLACE: Wally Wallace Tells All
ROB OF AMSTERDAM: Leather Fashion Designer
EDWARD PARENTE: Wakefield Poole’s Boys in the Sand, and the NYT
DAVID HURLES: Terror Is My Only Hardon!
DAVID HURLES: Call Him ‘Old Reliable’ Because He Is
THOM GUNN: ‘Leather Poet Laureate’ of Folsom Street
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: ‘We All Live On Half of Something’
TERRY LEGRAND: Once upon a time, there were no gay movies
ROGER EARL: Born to Raise Hell: Two Filmmakers in Conversation
Over de auteur
With his first articles on gay culture published in 1962, Jack Fritscher, the founding San Francisco editor-in-chief of the iconic ‘Drummer’ magazine and the longtime keeper of the ‘Drummer’ Archives, is the award-winning author of twenty books including high-profile eyewitness memoirs of his lover Robert Mapplethorpe, his friend Larry (‘The Leatherman’s Handbook’) Townsend, and his ‘gentleman caller’ Tennessee Williams. Fritscher at eighty-three reaches across sixty years of gay history into his journals, heart, and memory for our lost midcentury world as he did in ‘Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982.’ His new ‘Profiles in Gay Courage’ is holistic gay history-relevant to the present time-written by a keen eyewitness journalist. The masterful writing in this factual memoir of life with his friends is a treat for readers who wish to enjoy personal stories ticking behind famous names pegged on the gay history timeline.
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