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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…
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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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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…
RAINBOW COUNTY: STORIES FOR BEARS, DADDIES, AND LEATHERMEN. Readers will thrill to Fritscher’s well-reviewed style and imagination. He is, writes the BAY AREA REPORTER, the author who invented the South-of-Market…
and Other One-Handed, Two-Fisted Stories A collection of short stories by the author of Some Dance to Remember’.
What They Did to the Kid is a memoir spinning as a comic novel for general-fiction readers intrigued by boys’ school tales, and baby boomers who survived Catholic school. Ryan…
Newly revised for 21st-century readers, the author - an ordained but fallen exorcist - tells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch trials, the Old Religion…
Media literacy. This lively pop-culture primer teaching television as a literary genre, written during pre-Watergate Nixon-and republished during the Trump disruption of media-affirms while names of people and titles of…
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…
8 entertaining stories, defining diverse: edgy in some tales, nostalgic in others, lustrous always. Fritscher’s stylish fiction carries the 21st-century reader back through the glimmering door of the 20th to…
The forbidden story. On a night so clear that passengers could see stars reflecting themselves on a sea smooth as a mirror, the grandest ship in the world broke in…
Virginia Fritscher
In 1919, Virginia Day was born into 9,000 years of continuous civilization in Kampsville IL near the Koster archeological site. Her charming diary of teen life and family is a…
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…
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.
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…
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 –
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.
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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…
In his fiction collection, Fritscher unreels nine perfectly crafted stories that show how the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969 affected gay culture.
INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD 2024 DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE LGBT FICTION
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A Gay Hero's Journey through Covid
This amuse-bouche gay pop-culture novel of arts, ideas, and history, packed with comic dish…
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…
