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Jack Fritscher
This essential art history, written by an eyewitness, examines one of 20-century art's great questions of influence, mentorship, and eclipse, Dureau to Mapplethorpe, two icons colliding around homosexuality, race, and…
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and Other One-Handed, Two-Fisted Stories A collection of short stories by the author of Some Dance to Remember’.
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These 22 stores are archetypes of Gay Desire that pleasure the mind as much the libido! Gathered from hot gay magazines (where test-marked by 1,000 s of readers), 22 diverse/perverse…
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Fritscher outs the forbidden gay love story of the world’s most famous cruise, featuring the unsinkable Molly Brown, the posh lovers Michael Whitney and Edward Wedding, and the working crew…
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Leather Blues is the coming-out story of a rogue boy eager to lean the ropes and rituals of leathermen. This exquisitely crafted novel of initiation into bikes, bears, and man-to-man…
This Leather Origin Story of investigative journalism is an eyewitness oral history about a soon-to-be-lost generation of a once-important subculture of gay pioneers. In our leather archetribe, Drummer helped create…
Eyewitness friends chart Hollywood rise/fall of influencer-novelist Larry Townsend whose Leatherman’s Handbook was a founding text for thousands of men using S&M as empowering therapy against PTSD from lifelong homophobia.
Tim Brough
A guide to the art of fisting. It includes tips on technique, safety suggestions and background information on the scene and its history.
At midnight on the historic night of July 29, 1971, High Priest Anton LaVey sat down with journalist Jack Fritscher in the dramatic sanctuary of his Church of Satan in…
In essays, interviews, and photos, Fritscher’s masterful writing sheds new … light on authentic leatherfolk founders, icons, and super stars too often under-reported by gatekeepers of gay-history timelines –
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In American pop art, gangster rap, punk rock, and gay filmmaking, there is a Continental Divide between East Coast and West Coast culture typified by New York and California. This…
This fast-moving novel of gay San Francisco is a meta-fiction memoir told by a third-person narrator. This pop-culture comedy covers 3 years of strict quarantine disrupting the household of a…
Built on all new information recently unearthed, this stylishly written and illustrated timeline archive of art, sex, obscenity, gender, culture wars, homophobia, pop culture, and the gay mafia, will get…
This bestselling epic of San Francisco’s Castro and Folsom streets seethes with sex, drugs, panic, and passionate characters: a gay writer, a drop-dead gorgeous bodybuilder, a cabaret singer, a Vietnam…
