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·11 a man does not keep
pace with his compamons.
perhaps 1t 1s because he
hears a different drummer
Let tum step to the music
which he hears however
measured or far away · •
Henry David Thoreau ----....__

6 MALECAll/ OEAR SIR
Col some1hing to say. man?
8 FUN IN YOUR FAVORITE BAR
ON A QUIET SUNDAY AFTERNOON " Tightropes al 1he Officer's
Club" is the vehicle for this footloose look ar bartenclers and
bondage
16 DRUMMER DADDIES
All you orphans get in tine, 'cause the Drummer Adoption Agency
has a strict father just waiting to take you home! You won't find anything.other than in
18 DELIVERY this column, on our pages about 1heGay
C.D. Arnold's controvernal new play about a young man who asks Olympics, being completed in San fqin·
for the ultimare fantasy chco .u oflhiswritlng. But wean repon
that the games have been a triumph,
25 THE LEA THERMAN'S HANDBOOK Ill probably far exceeeding the expeC1a-
An exclusive excerpt from Larry Town\end's new version of his tions of the founders. The unexpected
classic book on S&M good-bad luck of having the homo-
40 DRUMSTICKS phobic U.S. Olympic Commiuee sue 10
prevent the use or the "Olympic" name
Silly shit for twisted funnybone.s
made new) coverage all over the world
41 RAW GRAPHICS PORTFOLIO & POSTER in papers that probably would have
Or, how Gunner got his name otherwise Ignored the happening. It
would seem ii Is alright for everyone
58 DRUMBEATS else to use the name "Olympics" except
There are more hot men in these pages than In a crowded lee1ther gays. But there are four years to kidc that
b.1r on Sarurday night . . • take your pick around In the couru before the next
65 DRUM one.
8111 Ward's prototype sheds his leather, but not h1!. baits as Drum However, the pagentry we saw and
goes co the opera photographed for Manlfe\t, the athletes
from all over the country and the world,
70 DRUMMWIA the crowds of gays who came with them
Werner Rainer Fassbinder's Lola and Christopher Larkin' Divine and to !>ee them, arc a beau11ful ~tory
Androgyne highlight this months look at new films and books well worth telling and remembering
Our gay leaden. were 1here, represen-
7S CONRAP Drummer's guide to prison politics tatives form the political world, celebri-
78 TOUCH CUSTOMERS ties, and a few lor-real Olympic athletes.
Cot an itch? These guys can and will scratch it . .. The weather wa!> magnificent mostly,
the Sall Francisco ~ky has been filled
81 TOUGH SHIT wirh flags, thousands o( balloom,
The new> you won't read in Tile Time~ rocked With mu\ic and crowd noises,
83 lfATHER BUUETIN BOARD Drummer's roundup of black feather and the City w.u filled, as usual. with
events people from ~omewhere else.
Our congratularion\ to the many who
84 LONDON LEATHER worked hard and long to make this
Bryan Derbyshire fills you in on hol stuff ,_·n_t_h_.e_U.;...._K_. ____ _ unusual Olympiad the success 11 was and
86 IN PASSING will continue to be, whatever they end
Harry Bush on the Daddy syndrome . .• up calling II.
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