Profiles in gay courage : leatherfolk, arts, and ideas : a memoir : gay popular culture / Jack Fritscher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fritscher, Jack, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fritscher, Jack--Biography.

Fritscher, Jack.

Leather lifestyle--United States.

Leather lifestyle.

Gay men--United States--Interviews.

Gay men.

Gay men--United States--Biography.

Gay culture--United States.

Gay culture.

United States.

Leather community.

Leathermen.

Leatherwomen.

Kink community.

Genre:

Interviews.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Archival edition.

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, CA : Palm Drive Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

"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 LeGrand and Roger Earl"-- Amazon.

Contents:

Robert Mapplethorpe : fetishes, faces, and flowers of evil

Cynthia Slater : kink queen of Folsom Street

Society of Janus : BDSM boys and girls together

Samuel Steward : secret historian : the talented Mr. Steward

The Mineshaft : legendary twentieth-century sex club

Wally Wallace : Wally Wallace tells all about the Mineshaft

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.

ISBN:

1890834610

9781890834616

OCLC:

1319344289

Publisher Number:

99992620092