Jack Fritscher sent me this and I recommend it to anyone interested in sex history or gay culture.
To read how this 1950s muscle mag genre formed the first uncloseted gay mags, including the legendary "Drummer" where this all flourished, flip through the pages of new book "Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer."
The entire text of the trade paperback is posted in a series of free pdfs at my site www.JackFritscher.com. The subtitle is "A Memoir ... Read Moreof the Sex, Art, Salon, Pop Culture War, Gay History of Drummer Magazine from the Titanic 1970s to 1999." 742 pages that are rooted in the 1950s.
Also see the Lammy Award Finalist "Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982" to see the impact of 1950s muscle and male culture on the first gay decade after Stonewall. Cheers
Buy the books on Amazon:
Haven't heard the "Drummer" name dropped in a while. That magazine was infamous!
Posted by: Dustin | Jul 17, 2009 at 09:32 PM