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Awards
National Leather Association Nonfiction Best Book Award
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
Independent Publisher Book Award
San Francisco Book Festival Award

Critics’ Quotes, Author and Book Credentials

• Jeanne Barney, First and Founding Los Angeles Editor in
Chief of Drummer: “For those of us who were there inventing Drum-
mer three decades ago, Fritscher serves up a thoroughly researched and
well-written account of a particular era in gay history, reporting on what
may well have been ‘The Golden Age of Leather’ and of Drummer . . . Gay
San Francisco is an historical resource for those who want to know How
Things Used to Be, as well as a nostalgic look back for those of us who
were ourselves eyewitness participants. I invite you all to join us in this
extraordinary walk down memory lane.”
• John F. Karr, Bay Area Reporter: “Veteran author Jack Fritscher
is an anarchist of gay sexual prose, the man who invented the South of
Market prose style (as well as its magazines . . . ) . . . . Fritscher writes with
sweat and wit.”
• San Francisco Chronicle: “Jack Fritscher reads gloriously!”
• Samuel Streit, Director, Special Collections, Brown Univer-
sity: “ . . . . Gay San Francisco is a remarkable history of a remarkable time
in a remarkable place, combining contemporary documents, photographs
and reportage with a first-hand and first-rate memoir that brings an
unforgettable era back to life . . . . ”
• Planetout.com: Fritscher is “the ground-breaking editor of Drum-
mer magazine.”
• Willie Walker, GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco: “Jack
Fritscher is a prolific writer who since the late sixties has helped document
the gay world and the changes it has undergone.”
• Catherine Johnson-Roehr, Curator of Art, Artifacts, and
Photographs, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and
Reproduction, Indiana University: “Those of us who are concerned
with the preservation of GLBT history are very fortunate that Jack Frit-
scher has such a remarkable memory for the people, places, and pivotal
events that he has witnessed over his lifetime. His long association with

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