Gay San Francisco : eyewitness Drummer : a memoir of the sex, art, salon, pop culture war, and gay history of Drummer magazine, the titanic 1970s to 1999. Volume 1 /

Fritscher, Jack.

Gay San Francisco : eyewitness Drummer : a memoir of the sex, art, salon, pop culture war, and gay history of Drummer magazine, the titanic 1970s to 1999. Volume 1 / Jack Fritscher ; collected and edited by Mark Hemry. - San Francisco : Palm Drive Publishing, c2008. - 733 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

"A narrative timeline, analysis, and archive of art, sex, erotica, obscenity, homophobia, identity politics, the culture war, and the salon around Drummer magazine. Based on internal evidence in Drummer magazine, and in journals, diaries, letters, photographs, interviews, recordings, magazines, and newspapers in the collection of Jack Fritscher and Mark Hemry." Introductions by Mark Hemry, Joseph W. Bean, Tim Barrus, Jim Stewart, Harold Cox, David Hurles, Edward Lucie-Smith, David Stein, Alexander Renault, and Larry Townsend.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword Reviews INDIES (INDIEFAB) Awards, 2007: Bronze, General Adult Fiction. Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), 2009: Gay/Lesbian (Bronze)

9781890834388 1890834386


Fritscher, Jack.


Drummer (San Francisco, Calif.)


Gay culture--History--California--San Francisco--20th century--Sources.
Gay men--Sexual behavior--History--California--San Francisco--20th century--Sources.
Leather lifestyle--History--California--San Francisco--20th century--Sources.
Gay erotica--Periodicals--History--20th century.
Sex-oriented periodicals--History--California--San Francisco--20th century.
Leather lifestyle--Periodicals--History--United States--20th century.
Gay press publications--History--California--San Francisco--20th century.


South of Market (San Francisco, Calif.)--History--Sources.
Folsom Street (San Francisco, Calif.)--History--Sources.

HQ76.3.U52 / S356 2008

306.76/6/0979461/09045

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