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(More customer reviews)Jack Fritscher in "Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer" writes a muscular multi-faceted eyewitness history. This non-fiction work is not only fascinating for the general reader but is packed with primary sources for the researcher. Fritscher, the founding San Francisco Editor-in-Chief of "Drummer" magazine has creds. He earned his academic credentials with his PhD. He earned his authority to mine and interpret the leather past by editing "Drummer", and by his writing, including his historical novel-memoir, "Some Dance to Remember". He not only talks the talk he has also walked the walk. What was happening South of Market in the 1970s, before it was gentrified, before it became SoMa, was in the vanguard of what Fritscher calls "homomasculinity". Fritscher gathered a group of gay masculine-identified artists, photographers, cartoonists, writers around "Drummer". The group grew and flexed its muscle. They sometimes lived together, worked for and with each other, exchanged art work, picked up their tools and built their own spaces. They exchanged ideas and partied together. And yes, they sometimes had sex together. He captures it all. Fritscher writes large.
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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, longtime Drummer editor Fritscher added erotic realism to the magical thinking of Drummer readers wanting a magazine that made newly liberated sex seem possible and accessible. Based on internal evidence in Drummer, 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 of Drummer. Fritscher s frisson anchors San Francisco s wild Gay Lib history on the clear chronology of the legendary monthly Drummer. Academia meets pop culture! Fritscher is the Ken Burns of Drummer magazine. 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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