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In essays, interviews, and photos, Jack 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.
With his first gay writing (on James Dean) published in 1962, Fritscher at 83 reaches across 60 years of gay life into his journals and heart to examine our lost midcentury world as he did in “Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982” which The Advocate called the "Gay Gone with the Wind."
With his first gay writing (on James Dean) published in 1962, Fritscher at 83 reaches across 60 years of gay life into his journals and heart to examine our lost midcentury world as he did in “Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982” which The Advocate called the "Gay Gone with the Wind."