Acknowledgements and History
Gay American Fiction
The author expresses acknowledgment and gratitude to the many magazine publishers and editors who have framed these stories into print over the years, and to the art directors and artists who illustrated the stories. Their roles in periodical publishing are often overlooked, underestimated, or lost to history. Appreciation is also owed to the hundreds of magazine readers who have encouraged versions of these stories with letters, requests, suggestions, and edits coming from their personal desire.
“The Adams Boys and Me” appeared as “Uncut Hillbilly Dicks” in Inches, Volume 1 #4, August 1985. Editor: Bob Johnson. Illustrated with a b&w photograph of the Adams Brothers with Jack Fritscher, designed and directed by Jack Fritscher, camera shot by David Hurles, Old Reliable, Hollywood.
“Assistant Freshman Football Coach” appeared as “4th Down! 12 Inches to Go!” in Inches, Volume 4, Number 1, March 1988: Editors, John Rowberry and Aaron Travis/Steven Saylor. Painting illustration by Dan Marx. Appearance also in Mach #39, May 1998: Publisher, Bear-Dog Hoffman; Managing Editor, Peter Millar; Editor, Scott McGillivray. Three photographs provided by Le Salon.
“B-Movie on Castro Street” appeared in In Touch # 57, July 1981: Editor-in-Chief, John Calendo, Los Angeles. The story is a 1981 draft of a scene for, but not used in, the 1990 novel, Some Dance to Remember, which was fully complete as a book manuscript in February, 1984, and first published as a whole by Tim Barrus and Elizabeth Gershman, Knights Press, Stamford, Connecticut.
“Beach-Blanket Surf-Boy Blues” was published in the annual William Higgins’ California Magazine, Volume 1, #1, 1983-1984 Edition. Editor: Bob Johnson. Surfing color photograph by William Higgins.
“A Beach Boy Named Desire,” titled “Sea Sweat and Roger,” was published in Jack Fritscher’s “Mantalk” column, Inches, Volume 1 #5, September 1985. Editor: Bob Johnson. Art Director: Sabin. This same issue also contained “Black on Blond” printed with the title, “In Search of Long Dong.” “A Beach Boy Named Desire” was written in specific erotic response to the color cover photograph and the centerfold and interior photo layout shot by “Milos” of the stage and screen pornstar, Roger, for Blueboy, Volume 10, February-March 1977. This same issue of Blueboy featured Christopher Isherwood excerpting Christopher and His Kind. Fritscher’s feature article about Roger, “Pumping Roger: Acts, Facts, & Fantasy,” appeared in Drummer 21, March 1977. Editor-in-Chief: Jack Fritscher. Art Director: A.Jay/Al Shapiro. Publisher: John Embry. “Pumping Roger” included photographs of Roger by filmmaker Wakefield Poole who was Roger’s stage and film director. Wakefield Poole made the first feature-length gay movies Boys in the Sand (1969) and Bijou (1972). Fritscher’s interview of Wakefield Poole, “Dirty Poole,” in Drummer 27, February 1978, was the first published interview of a gay director of gay films. Editor: Jack Fritscher. Art Director: A.Jay/Al Shapiro. Publisher: John Embry.
“The Best Dirty-Blond Carpenter in Texas” appeared in Man2Man Quarterly #8, Summer/June 1981: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor, Jack Fritscher, San Francisco; also appeared as the cover feature, “Fiction by Fritscher,” in The Target Album # 3, Winter 1982: Publisher, Lou Thomas, Target Studios, New York, with drawing created specifically for this story by Dom Orejudos aka “Etienne/Stephan,” Chicago. A second drawing was created by the New York artist, Domino, posing Jack Fritscher’s bodybuilder-lover, Jim Enger, as the model for the fictional story. The drawing appears also in The Domino Video Gallery: New York Natives, 2000, Palm Drive Video, Jack Fritscher, director; Mark Hemry, producer.
“Big Beefy College Jocks” appeared in Man2Man Quarterly #2, Winter/December 1980: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor, Jack Fritscher, San Francisco.
“Big Doofer at the Jockstrap Gym” appeared as “Doofer” in Inches, Volume 3, Number 12, February 1988: Editors, John Rowberry and Aaron Travis/Steven Saylor.
“Black-and-White-and-Brown Doublefuck” appeared in Just Men, Volume 1 #1, June 1982: Founding Editor, Bob Johnson, Los Angeles.
“Black Dude on Blond” was published in an earlier version as “J. Brian’s Flashbacks: Episode 6,” Honcho, Volume 5 #23 (incorrectly numbered inside actual issue as #22 June 1982). Editor-in-Chief. Joseph Smenyak. Illustrated with 3 photos (1 in color) by J. Brian. Also published as “Sex on the Market Street Muscle Strip: Without Pecs You’re Dead” in California Action Guide, Volume 1 #6, December 1982; illustrated with 3 photographs by J. Brian. Editor: Jack Fritscher. Publisher: Michael Redman. Art Director: Mark Hemry. Also published in Inches, Volume 1 #5, September 1985, and retitled “In Search of Long Dong” by editor Bob Johnson. This same issue contained Fritscher’s “Mantalk” column, “A Beach Boy Named Desire.”
“Brideshead of Frankenstein Revisited” was published in Uncut Magazine, Volume 2 #4, March 1988, with illustration drawn by the Hun. Editors: John W. Rowberry and Aaron Travis. “Brideshead” also published in the fiction anthology, Best Gay Erotica 1997, edited by Richard LaBonté, selected and introduced by Douglas Sadownick, Cleis Press, San Francisco.
“Buck’s Bunkhouse Discipline: The Screenplay” was published as a screenplay in Bunkhouse #9, Autumn 1995, with five photographs by Jack Fritscher shot during the shooting of the video, Buck’s Bunkhouse Discipline, Palm Drive Video, produced by Mark Hemry, directed by Jack Fritscher, 60 minutes; in this same issue also appeared Jack Fritscher’s short story, “Buckskin Foreskin.” Editors: Joseph W. Bean and Alec Wagner for Brush Creek Media.
“Buzz Spaulding’s Training Academy” was published in Inches Magazine, Volume 3 #11, January 1988, under the title, “Buzz Strangelove; Or, How My Dad Made My Dick Massive and I Learned to Love Every Inch,” with an abstract illustration painted and collaged by Dan Marx. Editors: John W. Rowberry and Aaron Travis.
“Cabbage-Patch Boys” was published as “J. Brian’s Flashbacks: Episode 5,” Honcho, Volume 5 #23 (incorrectly numbered inside actual issue as #22), June 1982. Editor-in-Chief: Joseph Smenyak; illustrated with 3 photographs by J. Brian. Also published as “Backyard Chicken: Pullet Surprise!” in California Action Guide, Volume 1 #5, November 1982, with six photographs by J. Brian. Editor: Jack Fritscher. Publisher: Michael Redman. Art Director: Mark Hemry.
“Caro Ricardo” appeared, as gift to Robert Mapplethorpe, in the first edition of Corporal in Charge. Transposed to a nonfiction memoir–a feature-article obituary, “Caro Ricardo” appeared as “Pentimento for Robert Mapplethorpe” in Drummer #133, August 1989. Publisher, Anthony DeBlase, in May 1989, two months after Robert’s death in March 1989, welcomed the feature two months before the Mapplethorpe censorship controversy broke out, July 1989. The piece appeared as “Chapter Two: Pentimento for Robert Mapplethorpe” in the hard-cover nonfiction memoir, Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera, Hastings House, 1994. A similar feature- article obituary of the artist A. Jay appeared in Drummer #107, October 1987: Publisher, Anthony DeBlase; Editor, JimEd Thompson. A. Jay was the artist who created the original artwork for the first magazine publication of “Corporal in Charge.” Robert Mapplethorpe’s first cover was cast, designed, and commissioned by Jack Fritscher for the cover of Drummer #24, October 1978. The intended Mapplethorpe-Fritscher book was to be titled, Rimshots: Inside the Fetish Factor.
“CBGB 1977” was published in Drummer #21, Volume 3, March 1977, as “Punk Funk” with photographs by reporter Mikel Board. As editor-in-chief of Drummer, Jack Fritscher also wrote in this Drummer #21: “Getting Off” editorial, “Prison Blues” feature, “Astrologic” column, “Gay Deteriorata” satire, “Pumping Roger” feature, “Dr. Dick” column, and edit/rewrite of “Heavy Rap with an Ex-Con” with David Hurles, Old Reliable Studio. The prison-themed cover of Drummer #21 was a photograph of San Francisco pianist John Trowbridge shot by Jack Fritscher and David Sparrow in the bunkers on the Marin Headlands. Graphic design by A. Jay. Editor: Jack Fritscher for Desmodus. Publisher: John Embry.
“Contestant Number 3,” in an earlier version first titled as “J. Brian’s Flashbacks: Episode 4,” was published in Honcho, Volume 5 #22, May 1982. Editor: Sam Staggs. Illustrated with 2 photographs by J. Brian. Also published as “Some Very Hardy Boys: Young Love! First Lust” in California Action Guide, Volume 1 #3, September 1982, with six b&w photographs by J. Brian featuring model Leo Ford. Editor: Jack Fritscher. Publisher, Michael Redman. Art Director, Mark Hemry. “Contestant Number Three” was not included in the first edition of Stand by Your Man (Gay Sunshine Press, San Francisco, 1987) and is here anthologized for the first time.
“Corporal in Charge of Taking Care of Captain O’Malley” appeared serialized in two installments. The first act, published in Drummer #22, May 1978, was illustrated with a Bob Mizer photograph from Athletic Model Guild and a drawing created by Al Shapiro, the artist A. Jay, who was also art director; the second act appeared in Drummer #23, July 1978, with an opening illustration by Al Shapiro/A. Jay: Publisher, John Embry; Editor, Jack Fritscher, San Francisco. Inspiring director David Hurles, Old Reliable studios, created an audiotape of an early version of this written piece in its first performance-art origination in Los Angeles in 1977. The art of A. Jay/Al Shapiro appears in this volume at the suggestion of “the Widow Shapiro,” Dick Kriegmont. A unique collection of A. Jay’s art is the subject of The A. Jay Video Gallery: Spit, 60 minutes, Palm Drive Video.
“The Daddy Mystique” was cover feature for In Touch for Men #56, June 1981, “Father’s Day Issue.” Editor-in-Chief: John Calendo. With drawing by Teddy and photographs from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rocky Horror Show, featuring Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, and the gay model Val Martin. Cover copy read: “The Daddy Mystique: Why Everyone is Ga-Ga for Dada.”
“Daddy’s Big Shave” was published as “Merry Christmas from Dad” in Bear 52, October 1998. Editor: Scott McGillivray. Managing Editor: Peter Millar. Publisher: Bear-Dog Hoffman. Illustrated with a b&w photograph by Brush Creek Media.
“Earthorse” written in 1973, first appeared in Man2Man Quarterly #3, Spring/March 1981: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor, Jack Fritscher, San Francisco. “Earthorse” was written the week the UPI reported one of the world’s first successful human-transplant stories about a woman suing to take a body-part for herself from her institutionalized, insane brother.
“Father and Son Tag Team” appeared in Inches, Volume 3, Number 7, September 1987: Editors, John Rowberry and Aaron Travis/Steven Saylor. Line-drawing illustration by the Hun. Appearance also in Mach #41: Publisher, Bear-Dog Hoffman; Managing Editor, Peter Millar; Editor, Bob Fifield. Illustrations included a drawing by Mike Thorn and a photograph by Brush Creek featuring Palm Drive Video model, Tom Howard.
“Fetish Noir” was written as the introductory editorial for the premiere issue of Fetish Noir magazine (Volume 1 #1, February 1998) at the request of the editing art director, Armando Aguilar, Royce Publications Distributing, Los Angeles. “Fetish Noir: Pansexual Pleasures for the Perverse.” Also included was a review by Jack Fritscher of Japanese straight erotic-bondage video; the review was titled, “Asian Market Crisis Ties Madame Butterfly in Knots.” “The List” first appeared in a 1979 brochure announcing the premiere issue of Man2Man Quarterly, and then in the California Action Guide, Volume 1 #2, August 1982, as well as in the first edition of Corporal in Charge with the introductory lead line incorrectly laid out at Gay Sunshine Press. The author did not submit “The List” for the Prowler Press edition in the U.K. “The List” in this edition restores the first edition.
“Firebomber Cigar Sarge” was published in Drummer 22, May 1978. Editor-in-Chief: Jack Fritscher. Art Director: A. Jay/Al Shapiro. Publisher: John Embry. Also published in California Action Guide, Volume 1 #6, December 1982 with four photographs. Editor: Jack Fritscher. Publisher: Michael Redman. Art Director: Mark Hemry. Also published as “Sexual Harassment in the Military: 2 Performance Art Pieces for 4 Actors in 3 Lovely Costumes” in the anthology, Best Gay Erotica 1998, Selected and Introduced by Christopher Bram, Edited by Richard LaBonte, Cleis Press, San Francisco. Christopher Bram is the author of Father of Frankenstein which became the award-winning 1998 film, Gods and Monsters, starring Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, and Lynn Redgrave.
“Fisting the Selfsucker” first appeared in the premiere issue of Skin, Volume 1 #3, May-June 1980: Editor, Bob Johnson, Los Angeles; illustrated with a full-page color photograph of autofellatio by Richard Lyle. This story was pre-amble to a larger feature article written by Jack Fritscher titled “Solo Sex” that appeared as the cover feature in Drummer #123, November 1988.
“Foot Loose” appeared in Drummer #29, May 1979: Publisher, John Embry; Editor-in-Chief, Jack Fritscher. Photograph illustration by John Trojanski. Art Direction by A. Jay/Al Shapiro.
“Foreskin Fever” was published as “Foreskin Blues” in Uncut, Volume 1 #3, January 1987. Editor: John W. Rowberry. Contributing Editor: Bud Berkeley. Art Director: Dan Marx. Illustrated with photographs by David Grant Smith (San Francisco) and Glenn Guild with six more historical and anonymous photographs. Contents page copy: “Foreskin Blues. Hold onto your overhang, ’cause Papa Jack Fritscher Hemingway is gonna tell you about the low-hanging, lip-curling, lid-dropping lace-curtain blues!” –John W. Rowberry
“Foreskin Prison Blues” was published in Uncut: The Magazine of the Natural Man, Volume 1 #4, March 1987. Editor: John W. Rowberry. Associate Editor: Bud Berkeley. Illustrated with 5 line drawings by Roger Martin. Also published illegally in an unauthorized excerpt in Drummer 186, July 1995, along with a color drawing by Skipper, commissioned by Jack Fritscher, specifically for the climactic scene in the story.
“Frathouse Pledge: Beercan Charlie” was published in Inches, Volume 1 #6, November 1985. Editor: Bob Johnson. Art Director: Sabin. With color drawing specifically illustrating the story.
“From Nada to Mañana” appeared as “El Capitan” in Uncut, Volume 1, Number 6, July 1987: Editors, John Rowberry and Aaron Travis/Steven Saylor. Rapidograph ink-drawing illustration by REX. Also appeared as “El Capitan: The Hard of Darkness” in Brush Creek Media’s Hombres Latinos, Fall 1996: Publisher, Bear-Dog Hoffman; Managing Editor, Joseph W. Bean; Editor, Bob Fifield.
“Goatboy” was published in the first issue of Inches, Volume 1 #1, April 1985. Editor: Bob Johnson.
“Goodbye, Saigon” appeared as “Wound-Sucking Cocksucker” in Man2Man Quarterly #3, March 1981: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor-in-Chief, Jack Fritscher. Appearance also in Powerplay #17, Spring 1998. Publisher, Bear-Dog Hoffman; Managing Editor, Peter Millar; Editor, Bob Fifield. Drawing by Ray Schulze (RAS).
“Horsemaster” was published in Drummer #25, December 1978. Editor-in-Chief: Jack Fritscher. Art Director: A. Jay/Al Shapiro. Publisher: John Embry. Illustrated with a b&w photograph by Roy Dean. Also published as “On a Pony He Called Wildfire: Horsemaster” in California Action Guide, Volume1 #6, December 1982. Editor: Jack Fritscher. Publisher: Michael Redman. Art Director: Mark Hemry. Also published in Jack Fritscher’s “Mantalk” column in Inches, Volume 1 #2, June 1985. Editor: Bob Johnson.
“Hustler Bars” appeared in Skin, Volume 2 #5, September-October 1981: Editor, Bob Johnson, Los Angeles; appeared also as “Paying For Sex” in The California Action Guide, Volume 1 #6, December 1982, San Francisco, with four photographs by David Hurles’ Old Reliable Studio, Los Angeles; and as the (by-lined on-cover) cover feature, “Hustler Bars: Show Me the Money!” in International Drummer #204, June 1997, San Francisco, which continued to list Jack Fritscher on the masthead as a continuously “Contributing Writer,” twenty years after he first edited Drummer. This issue also featured four color pages (22-25) of photographs reproduced electronically from Jack Fritscher’s Palm Drive Video feature, Dave Gold’s Gym Workout. The issue of Skin, Volume 2 #5, was written by Jack Fritscher whose two other gay-history articles in this issue were “AMG’s Duos: Bob Mizer’s Physique Pictorial Studio” with 15 AMG photographs in color and black and white, and “Old Reliable: The Company That Dirty Talk Built,” illustrated with a drawing by Rex and with 23 David Hurles’ Old Reliable Studio photographs in color and black-and-white. Also appeared as “Patron of the Arts” in the anthology Bar Stories, edited by Scott Brassart, Alyson Publications, 2000, Los Angeles/New York.
“I Married an Aqua-Nymph” was published in Expose Magazine, Volume 1 #3, April 1981, illustrated with a painting by Joe Zeni. Editor: Bob Johnson. This same issue contains a fantasy feature article also by Jack Fritscher.
“I’m a Sucker for Uncut Meat” appeared in Skin, Volume 2 #4, July-August 1981: Editor, Bob Johnson, Los Angeles. Also appeared in Man2Man Quarterly #2, Winter/December 1980: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor, Jack Fritscher, San Francisco. Appeared as well in The California Action Guide, Volume 1, #1, July 1982: Publisher, Michael Redman; Editor, Jack Fritscher; Art Director, Mark Hemry, San Francisco. The story provided the concept for the video, Tom’s Gloryhole: Foreskin Obsession, Palm Drive Video. Straight businessman Michael Redman was the successful San Francisco publisher of the straight tabloid, California Pleasure Guide, sold in adult stores and vending machines on the streets of San Francisco. He advertised in the Sunday Chronicle for an experienced editor to conceptualize and start-up a companion adult tabloid, the gay California Action Guide. Redman and Fritscher interviewed at the Noe Valley coffee-shop and deli, the Meat Market, on 24th Street a few doors west of Castro, May 14, 1982.
“In Praise of Fuckabilly Butt” was published in Skin, Volume 2 #2, March 1984. Editor: Bob Johnson. Illustrated with a pencil drawing created for the poem by artist Kit. In the same issue appeared Jack Fritscher’s short story, “Mike: Solo,” illustrated with a color photograph by Western Man Studios. “Mike: Solo” appears as “San Francisco’s Finest” in the anthology by Jack Fritscher, Corporal in Charge of Taking Care of Captain O’Malley and Other Stories, Prowler Books, Uniform Series, London, 1998, which was first published as a book in 1984 by Gay Sunshine Press, San Francisco.
“Leather Blues” was published as I Am Curious (Leather) in a mimeographed edition of one hundred copies as a trial balloon by publisher and photographer Lou Thomas of Target Studios, New York, 1972; the first chapter was published as “an excerpt from the forthcoming Drummer novel, I Am Curious (Leather): The Adventures of Denny Sargent in Son of Drummer, 1978; the first chapter under the title “Calling Denny Sargent” appeared in the inaugural issue of Skin magazine, January 1979, editor Bob Johnson; the entire novel was serialized as The Adventures of Denny Sargent in eight issues of MAN2MAN Quarterly 1980-1982; published as the book Leather Blues by Winston Leyland, Gay Sunshine Press/Leyland Press, 1984; excerpted as “Leather Blues” in Inches, Volume 1, #3, July 1985, and as “Leather Blues” in Stroke, volume 4, #4, 1985, creative director Kit Christopher; a collector’s book edition, Leather Blues: The Adventures of Denny Sargent: A Novel of Leatherfolk was published by Palm Drive Publishing, 2011.
“The Lords of Leather” was published as the feature cover Fiction for 100th Anniversary Issue, Drummer 100, October 1986; written at the invitation of Publisher, Anthony F. DeBlase; Editor, Fledermaus.
“My Baby Loves the Western Movies” was published as “Buckskin Foreskin,” Foreskin Quarterly #13, March 1990, with three photographs by Jack Fritscher. Editor: Joseph W. Bean for Desmodus; also published in Bunkhouse #9, Autumn 1995, illustration drawn by the Hun, appearing in the same issue with Jack Fritscher’s screenplay, Buck’s Bunkhouse. Editors: Joseph W. Bean and Alec Wagner for Brush Creek Media.
“New Kid in Town” was published as “J. Brian’s Flashbacks: Episode 3,” Honcho, Volume 5 #22, May 1982 , which also contained “J. Brian’s Flashbacks: Episode 4”; illustrated with two color photographs by J. Brian. Also published as “The Cowboy and the Sex Stars” in California Action Guide, Volume 1 #4, October 1982. Editor: Jack Fritscher. Publisher: Michael Redman. Art Director: Mark Hemry. Also published as “Big City Cowpoke” in Inches, Volume 1 #2, June 1985. Editor: Bob Johnson. Art Director: Sabin. With 4-color drawing of erotic cowboy.
“Nooner Sex,” “By Blonds Obsessed,” and “Cruising the Merchant Marines” are original to the first edition of Corporal in Charge. “Nooner Sex” was written as a companion piece to Jack Fritscher’s cover-feature, “The Daddy Mystique,” In Touch #56, June 1981: Editor, John Calendo. “By Blonds Obsessed” was written in October 1981 at David Hurles’ Old Reliable apartment, Hollywood. “Cruising the Merchant Marines” was written in San Francisco, January 1983.
“Officer Mike: San Francisco’s Finest” appeared in Just Men, Volume 1 #4, May-June 1984: Editor, Bob Johnson. Illustrated with a Rapidograph drawing by Rex. Fritscher and Rex collaborated in a Tenderloin coffee shop in San Francisco to discuss the concept, as an experiment for the gay press, so that words and illustration would match organically, rather than the usual paste-up of slapping almost any illustration to almost any text. A very early “leather” draft appeared as “Mike: Solo” in Skin, Volume 2 #2, November 1980: Editor, Bob Johnson, Los Angeles. Illustrated with a color photograph from Western Man Studio, San Francisco. The same issue featured Jack Fritscher’s long poem, “In Praise of Fuckabilly Butt,” illustrated with a charcoal drawing by the artist Kit whose narrative cartoon strip, “The Adventures of Billy Joe”–a leathery Huckleberry Finn, appeared episodically in Skin (Eg.: Skin, Volume 2 #1, 1980).
“Photo Op at Walt Whitman Junior College” appeared as “Wet Stough” in Drummer #28, March 1978 with ten photographs by Jack Fritscher and David Sparrow: Publisher, John Embry; Editor-in-Chief, Jack Fritscher. Art Direction by A. Jay/Al Shapiro. Also appeared in The James White Review, Fall-Winter 1997.
“The Princeton Rub” appeared in Skin, Volume 2, #1, January-February 1980: Editor, Bob Johnson, Los Angeles; and as “Speedos, Jockstraps, and the Princeton Rub” in Man2Man Quarterly #4, Summer/June 1981: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor, Jack Fritscher, San Francisco.
“Rainbow County: The Barber of 18th and Castro,” appeared in Mach #43: Publisher, Bear-Dog Hoffman; Managing Editor, Peter Millar; Editor, Bob Fifield.
“The Real Cowboy” appeared in Man2Man Quarterly #5, Fall 1981: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor-in-Chief, Jack Fritscher, and in The California Action Guide, Volume 1, Number 3, September 1982: Publisher, Michael Redman; Editor-in-Chief, Jack Fritscher.
“RoughNight@Sodom.cum” appeared in Mach #37, October 1997: Publisher, Bear-Dog Hoffman; Managing Editor, Peter Millar, Editor, Bob Fifield.
“Rough Trade” appeared as “Chico Is the Man” in Son of Drummer, June 1978: Publisher, John Embry; Editor-in-Chief, Jack Fritscher. Photograph illustration by Bob Heffron. Art Direction by A. Jay/Al Shapiro. Appeared as “The Poem of Summer” in Thrust, Volume 11, Number 2, August 1997: Arts Editor, Armando Aguilar/Jimmy Jizz.
“S&M Ranch” appeared in Man2Man Quarterly #2, December 1980: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor-in-Chief, Jack Fritscher. Appearance also in Powerplay #19, September 1998: Publisher, Bear-Dog Hoffman; Managing Editor, Peter Millar; Editor, Ray Massie. Two pointilist drawings specific to the story created by Ricky Ellsworth.
“Seducing Butch” was published as “Confessions: Seducing Straight Men” in Uncut Magazine, Volume 2 #4, March 1988. Editors: John W. Rowberry and Aaron Travis. A photographic portrait of Butch appears in the large-format photography book, Jack Fritscher’s American Men, GMP, London, 1994, editions aubrey walter, 55 black-and-white photographs by Jack Fritscher. The video, Butch: Tattooed Bearded Ex-Con Biker, is available from Palm Drive Video. Running time: 60 minutes.
“The Shadow Soldiers” appeared in Man2Man Quarterly #4, June 1981, and Man2Man Quarterly #5, September 1981: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor-in-Chief, Jack Fritscher. Also appeared as cover-featured lead fiction in Drummer #127, April 1989: Publisher, Anthony F. DeBlase; Editor-in-Chief, Fledermaus; four pen, ink, and marker-pen illustrations by “Skipper” through courtesy of Palm Drive Video Publishing. Appearance also in Powerplay #15, August 1997: Publisher, Bear-Dog Hoffman; Managing Editor, Joseph W. Bean; Editor, Bob Fifield; drawing by Ricky Ellsworth.
“Sleep in Heavenly Peace” appeared in Drummer #25, December 1978: Publisher, John Embry; Editor-in-Chief, Jack Fritscher. Photograph illustration by John Trojanski. Art Direction by A. Jay/Al Shapiro. Also appeared as “2 All a Goodnight” in the last issue of Man2Man Quarterly #8, December 1981: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor-in-Chief, Jack Fritscher. Pencil-drawing illustration by Sable.
“Stand by Your Man” first appeared as centerfold fiction, “J. Brian’s Flashbacks: Episode 2,” Honcho, Volume 5 #21, April 1982. Editor-in-Chief: Josephy Smenyak. Illustrated with three color photographs by J. Brian. Also published as “Cruisin’ ’82: The Van Man Cometh” in California Action Guide, Volume 1 #2, August 1982. Editor: Jack Fritscher; Publisher: Michael Redman; Art Director: Mark Hemry. Printed with four photographs by J. Brian featuring Mickey Squires who modeled for Colt, J. Brian, and Jack Fritscher’s Palm Drive Video. Mickey Squires appeared in the Palm Drive Video, Confessions of a Linebacker, directed by Jack Fritscher, and in the photography book, Jack Fritscher’s American Men, Gay Men’s Press (GMP), London, 1994.
“Telefuck” was written for Just Men, Volume 2 #2, March 1984. Editor: Bob Johnson. Illustrated with Rapidograph pen drawing by Rex, created directly for this story, and later used in commercial advertising for erotic phone companies.
“That Boy That Summer” appeared as “Anticipation: That Long Hot Summer” in Skin, Volume 2, #3, May-June 1981: Editor, Bob Johnson, Los Angeles , illustrated with a full-page color photograph by John Cox, Jr. The same issue contained Jack Fritscher’s interview with filmmaker, J. Brian, who handled a stable of hustlers who serviced clientele such as Rock Hudson: “Boys for Hire.” Also appeared in Man2Man Quarterly #7, Spring/March 1981: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor, Jack Fritscher, San Francisco; also appeared in The California Action Guide, Volume 1, #1, July 1982: Publisher, Michael Redman; Editor, Jack Fritscher; Art Director, Mark Hemry. Action Guide photographs by David Hurles’ Old Reliable Studio, Los Angeles, and David Sparrow/Jack Fritscher, San Francisco.
“Three Bears in a Tub” was published in Bear Annual 1999, January 1999. Editors: Scott McGillivray and Peter Millar for Brush Creek Media.
“Titanic!” was published in Uncut: The Magazine of the Natural Man, volume 3, #1, September 1988, editor John W, Rowberry, art director Patrick Nunn; MACH 35, March 1997, editor Joseph W. Bean, illustrations by Ricky Ellsworth; title story in the anthology Titanic: Forbidden Stories Hollywood Forgot, Palm Drive Publishing, 1999; as the novella, Titanic, Palm Drive Publishing, 2012
“Titsports: Our Pecs Belong to the Sundance, Kid” appeared as “Tit Torture Blues” in Drummer #30, June 1979: Publisher, John Embry; Editor, Jack Fritscher, San Francisco. Photographic illustrations by Richard Moore, Philip Beard, Mikal Bales’ Zeus Studios, and Joe Tiffenbach; line drawing illustration of “Pecs O’Toole” created for the article by Al Shapiro, the artist A. Jay, who was the art director; Al Shapiro introduced his “Pecs O’Toole” comic strip when he was art director for Queen’s Quarterly, New York. Also appeared in Man2Man Quarterly #5, Fall/September 1981: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor, Jack Fritscher, San Francisco; also appeared in The California Action Guide, Volume 1 #5, November 1982: Publisher, Michael Redman; Editor, Jack Fritscher, San Francisco. Illustrated with a drawing titled “Nipples with Boot” (dated 4-28-81) created for this piece by Rex, New York. Continuing the nipple theme, Fritscher wrote, “Tits: Radical Nipples,” for Drummer #143, October 1990, illustrations by Zeus Studio. The original story also served as the treatment for the video feature, Tit Torture Blues, 1988, Palm Drive Video, San Francisco.
“USMC Slap Captain” is both a pioneer story and a famously reprinted story of iconic, archetypal gay myth. It was the first story in the gay press introducing slapping as a fetish, and initially appeared as “USMC Slapcaptain: How The Corporal Came to Be in Charge of Taking Care of Captain O’Malley” in Man2Man Quarterly #7, Spring/March 1982: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor, Jack Fritscher, San Francisco. “Slap Captain” also appeared in Dungeonmaster #47, January 1994: Publisher, Martyn Bakker; Editor, Anthony F. DeBlase; illustrated with two photographs by Jack Fritscher: one of actor Terry Kelly from the Palm Drive Video, Hot Lunch (Dungeonmaster, page 24), and a second from the Palm Drive Video, Gut Punchers, starring Dan Dufort, 2nd-Place Winner of Physique Contest, Gay Games II, San Francisco, August 15, 1986. Mark Hemry and Jack Fritscher, as Palm Drive Video, shot the only video of the physique contest at the Castro Theater for Gay Games I (at that time called “The Gay Olympics”). The same gut-puncher photograph, requested specifically by Brian Pronger, was also featured (unindexed) in Brian Pronger’s Gay Sports: The Arena of Masculinity (St Martin’s Press, 1990).“Slap Captain” also appeared in Powerplay #10, May 1996, Brush Creek Media, San Francisco, with illustration drawn by DadeUrsus, with color cover shot by Jack Fritscher from the cover of the photography book, Jack Fritscher’s American Men (GMP, London, 1995), including two pages of five photographs by Jack Fritscher titled “Slap Shots.” Publisher, Bear-Dog Hoffman; Editor, Alec Wagner. Confer also the Palm Drive Video, Slap Happy. “USMC Slapcaptain” also was featured in Best Gay Literary Erotica 1998, Edited by Richard LaBonté, Selected and Introduced by Christopher Bram, Cleis Press. Editor LaBonté combined “USMC Slapcaptain” with Jack Fritscher’s “Cigar Sarge” under the Fritscher title, “Sexual Harassment in the Military: 2 Performance Pieces for 4 Actors in 3 Lovely Costumes.” Christopher Bram is the author of the novel, Father of Frankenstein, upon which was based the Academy-Award winning movie, Gods and Monsters, starring Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, and Brendan Fraser.
“Video Casting Couch” was published as “Videotape Three-Way: Video Master” in Skin, Volume 2 #1, January 1980. Editor: Bob Johnson. This same issue contained Jack Fritscher’s short story, “The Princeton Rub,” also in Corporal in Charge.
“Wait Till Your Father Gets Home” appeared in premiere edition, Man2Man Quarterly #1, January 1980: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor-in-Chief, Jack Fritscher. Also appeared in The California Action Guide, October 1982: Publisher, Michael Redman; Editor-in-Chief, Jack Fritscher. Photograph illustration by Mark Hemry.
“Wet Dreams and Golden Showers” appeared as the cover feature, “Pissing in the Wind,” in Drummer #20, December 1977: Publisher, John Embry; Editor, Jack Fritscher, San Francisco. Photographic illustrations by the Gage Brothers from their feature film, El Paso Wrecking Company.
“Wild Blue Yonder” appeared in Uncut, Volume 2, Number 1, September 1987: Editors, John Rowberry and Aaron Travis/Steven Saylor. Pencil drawing illustration by PEN. Also appeared in Brush Creek Media’s Classic Bear Annual #2, February 1997: Publisher, Bear-Dog Hoffman; Managing editor, Joseph W. Bean; Assistant Managing Editor, Peter Millar; Editor, Rich Iremonger. Pencil-drawing illustration by Walt Henry.
“Wish They All Could Be California Boys” was published in a different version titled “J. Brian’s Flashbacks: Episode 1” in Honcho, Volume 4 #21, April 1982. Editor: Christopher Johns. Also published in a revised second version in California Action Guide, Volume 1 #1, July 1982; illustrated with six photographs by J. Brian. Editor: Jack Fritscher. Publisher: Michael Redman. Art Director: Mark Hemry. Published also in Just Men, Volume 3 #3, May 1985. Editor: Bob Johnson. Illustrated with a b&w photograph by J. Brian.
“Worship Me” was published in Inches Magazine, Volume 3 #6, August 1987, titled “Italian Groundhog Sees 10-Inch Shadow,” part of Jack Fritscher’s “True Tales” column, illustration drawn by the Hun. Editors: John W. Rowberry and Aaron Travis.
“Young Deputy K-9 Cop” first appeared as “Dog Master” in the premiere issue of Man2Man Quarterly #1, October 1980, “The Documentary Journal of Homomasculine Gay Popular Culture”: Publisher, Mark Hemry; Editor, Jack Fritscher; Cover model, Jim Enger. Also appeared as “Dog Dik” in The California Action Guide, Volume 1 #3, September 1982: Publisher, Michael Redman; Editor, Jack Fritscher; Art Director, Mark Hemry.
“Young Russian River Rats” was published in Just Men, Volume 2 #5, June 1984. Editor: Bob Johnson. Illustrated with b&w nude photograph by J. Brian.
Tales from the Bear Cult
Bear Market (Earthorse)
Chasing Danny Boy
Chasing Danny Boy
The Story Knife
Sweet Embraceable You
The Unseen Hand in the Lavendar Light
Silent Mothers, Silent Sons
The Story Knife
Mrs. Dalloway Went That-A-Way!
Stonewall: Stories of Gay Liberation
Stonewall: June 27, 1969, 11pm
Meet Me in San Francisco