https://jackfritscher.org/interviews/ 2026-04-05T17:27:28+00:00 weekly 0.8000 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RbEKlQdiaNc/mqdefault.jpg Drummer magazine - JackFritscher.com Part 1 of 3 http://www.JackFritscher.com -- GLBT Historian Jack Fritscher is the founding San Francisco editor in chief of the legendary leather magazine Drummer (1975-1999). He is interviewed by Loren Berthlesen, Leatherati.com, regarding how the reader-reflexive Drummer reported on, and created, leather culture. Drummer was San Francisco's longest-running gay magazine and was read by millions internationally. Fritscher was the bicoastal lover of Robert Mapplethorpe and the first gay magazine editor to publish Mapplethorpe photographs. Interview: Hotel Whitcomb, San Francisco, October 31, 2009. 2010-07-22T03:21:39Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/RbEKlQdiaNc 417 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/k-zoLIgedxk/mqdefault.jpg Drummer magazine - JackFritscher.com Part 2 of 3 http://www.JackFritscher.com -- GLBT Historian Jack Fritscher is the founding San Francisco editor in chief of the legendary leather magazine Drummer (1975-1999). He is interviewed by Loren Berthlesen, Leatherati.com, regarding how the reader-reflexive Drummer reported on, and created, leather culture. Drummer was San Francisco's longest-running gay magazine and was read by millions internationally. Fritscher was the bicoastal lover of Robert Mapplethorpe and the first gay magazine editor to publish Mapplethorpe photographs. Interview: Hotel Whitcomb, San Francisco, October 31, 2009. 2010-07-22T05:42:45Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/k-zoLIgedxk 522 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A4SugZZ0Ips/mqdefault.jpg Drummer magazine - JackFritscher.com Part 3 of 3 http://www.JackFritscher.com -- GLBT Historian Jack Fritscher is the founding San Francisco editor in chief of the legendary leather magazine Drummer (1975-1999). He is interviewed by Loren Berthlesen, Leatherati.com, regarding how the reader-reflexive Drummer reported on, and created, leather culture. Drummer was San Francisco's longest-running gay magazine and was read by millions internationally. Fritscher was the bicoastal lover of Robert Mapplethorpe and the first gay magazine editor to publish Mapplethorpe photographs. Interview: Hotel Whitcomb, San Francisco, October 31, 2009. 2014-04-27T18:55:29Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/A4SugZZ0Ips 472 https://jackfritscher.org/icons-robert-mapplethorpe/ 2025-10-20T23:51:07+00:00 weekly 0.6400 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ju2cFSfdLH8/mqdefault.jpg Jack Fritscher on his friends Robert Mapplethorpe and George Dureau, and much more, with A M Hanson Iconic eye witness author and LGBTQ historian Jack Fritscher (USA) talks with photographer A M Hanson (UK) about his book 'Dueling Photographers: George Dureau and Robert Mapplethorpe', their connection, relationships with models, studio and private lives and impact. The Male Gaze. The Gay Gaze. Meeting Mapplethorpe at Drummer Magazine. San Francisco in the 1970s, being there LGBTQ history, Harvey Milk and being in "Milk" the movie. New dawns and the bi-coastal golden days. HIV/AIDS activism in the 1980s and beyond. Turning sex fantasies into the ultimate safe sex realities at Palm Drive Video. How it was then , where we are now. Plus more insights and observations back and forth across the pond ... ~ rough uncut cut zoom sessions / Sept 2024, extended chat published Oct 2025 ~ With special thanks and appreciation to Mark Hemry. photos: 1: Jack Fritscher and Robert Mapplethorpe (auto portrait, c1979). 2: Robert Mapplethorpe, Elliot Siegal, Jack Fritscher, outside the RamRod, New York City (Leonard Fink, 1978). 3: George Dureau, at his home and studio, New Orleans (video still, Jack Fritscher, 1991). 4: Jack filming, 1980s. 5 & 6: 'Dueling Photographers' book cover / (end credits) back cover "Dueling Photographers, George Dureau and Robert Mapplethorpe" is published by Palm Drive (2024). For more about Jack Fritscher's work see www.jackfritscher.com A M Hanson is an artist, photographer, map maker, and sometime curator, based in London. . . . 2025-10-19T10:15:54Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ju2cFSfdLH8 5476 https://jackfritscher.org/icons-george-dureau/ 2025-10-20T23:50:27+00:00 weekly 0.6400 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RKEkv37el7g/mqdefault.jpg George Dureau: His Photography, Painting, and Robert Mapplethorpe George Dureau, interviewed by author Jack Fritscher for the book "Mapplethorpe: Assault With a Deadly Camera," at his home in New Orleans, April 8, 1991. 2014-11-22T17:29:55Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/RKEkv37el7g 6345 https://jackfritscher.org/icons-the-mineshaft/ 2025-10-23T20:39:09+00:00 weekly 0.6400 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zHVHA1EB7d0/mqdefault.jpg Jack Fritscher interviews Wally Wallace on 03-29-1990 Jack Fritscher interviews Wally Wallace (manager of the Mineshaft) on 03-29-1990 discussing the Mineshaft, Cruising (the movie), and New York City in the 1970's and 1980's. 2025-10-23T20:35:13Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/zHVHA1EB7d0 9586 https://jackfritscher.org/gaypress-holly-solomon-speaks/ 2025-12-22T00:09:33+00:00 weekly 0.5120 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iTdpUtAKHUk/mqdefault.jpg The Holly Solomon Collection Christie’s is proud to offer an impressive selection of artwork from the Holly Solomon Collection in its upcoming Post-War and Contemporary Online auction, 2-12 November 2015. This auction will feature dozens of important artworks from New Imagist painters, Pattern and Decoration artists and New York City icons such as Gordon Matta-Clark, Mary Heilmann and Peter Young. A passionate collection and pioneering gallerist, Holly Solomon was an impresario in the New York art world throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s, and her aesthetic and taste is apparent in this eclectic selection of artwork. http://www.christies.com/onlineonly 2015-10-29T18:23:55Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/iTdpUtAKHUk 147 https://jackfritscher.org/nla-lifetime-achievement-and-literary-award/ 2026-04-01T00:22:23+00:00 weekly 0.5120 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ej2DAPY-4CM/mqdefault.jpg 2020 National Leather Association Keynote Chat with Jack Fritscher: "Race, Sex, and Gender" A Keynote Chat with the National Leather Association 2020 "Race, Sex, and Gender: Our Once and Future Lives during Black Lives Matter and COVID-19" by Jack Fritscher, Ph.D., Founding San Francisco Editor-in-Chief of DRUMMER magazine. Presented in Gratitude upon Acceptance of the NLA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, August 8, 2020. http://www.DrummerArchives.com 2020-08-12T01:02:44Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ej2DAPY-4CM 1005