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··11 a man does not keep
pace with his compamons.
perhaps 11 1s because he
hears a d11/erenl drummer leather men >N~m 10 be f.isclnated by
Let tum step to the music police. If someone walks into a leather
which he hears. however bar with an anywhere near ;ic-cur .it~ ve1 •
measured or far away " ~•on of the uniform of one or 1he more
Henry OaVJd Thoreau mili1.1ris1ic police departments, haJf the
studs are down on their kne~. tongue~
hanging out, wa1trng to be domina1ed or
6 MALECALL/ OEAR SIR " arrested" and loving It. When we were
shooting "Down in the Basement oi the
8 COPS! Stillion House" sequence rn the old
\Voffgang Vox rell!i lh how he got cauglll under che spell of blue
~Prgc in the fin.t place. Quarters setting this month, ont' of our
friends (the 'fluffer') virtu.llly had to be
12 COPMANIA remained to keep him from running up
An olf-duty guide 10. ome of the ouwandlng officers on 1he bear. and joining the action. Finally we had
on rhe .i.tre<:'l, on the page and on the screen. the two 'cops' give him .J strip-search to
14 A COP'S LAMENT cool him off. Amazing.
A cfass1c n.1rrat1ve from an unknown police officer who learned J Another, though le~ popular. turn-
few le>som aboll( crowd control. on for uniform lovers are the tony-some
year old Nui German outfits tholl
16 HELP! POLICE! Wonder why you can never find a cop when you created fear and loathing around the
nt•ecJ onel William R. McCullough shec/s some light on police and world during the Holocaust. The closer
how they gor rlla1 way
one was to the actu;il SS troops, 1he
19 IN THE BASEMENT OF THE STATION HOUSE more the fear and loathing.
A C"Ompiracy between pho1ographer Jim Wig/er and Robert Payne But there Is a fascination with at least
to uocover what realty goes on when one of the boys gets invited the trappings or these two bastion'> o(
't.lownst airs' for a little pep 1alk. macho arrogance, and we feel It Is
merely the trappings. Cays have suf-
25 PENAL FARM
A manuscript found in a footlocker, George Jame~on's hi~toric fered more a1 the hands of the police
1ournal of discipline at the hand:, of prison guards circa 1910. departments ANO the Na1is than virtu-
ally any other group, with the exception
33 LEATHER NOTEBOOK Larry Townsend's good advice of European Jews, of coune, in the ca.se
43 CON RAP The Drummer guide to available prisoners . .. of the Nati .
Why emulate your persecutors? Who
45 COP ART A handful of the best artists create more than a handful of knows? Gays seem to be stmng on mil·
beef behind the badge.
llary uniforms 35 well. although lhey.
SPECIAL MR. DRUMMER 1983 POSTER BONUS! li!l.e their hNero brother~. are not par·
ticularly fond of servitude in the Army.
53 DRUMBEATS There's a cop orrwo lurking among Drummer'!> abso- Navy or Marines. And lord know~ the
lute hard core claHified ad ecrion ..•
military is a!; archaically homophobic as
73 DRUM Bill Ward'} on-going 'aga of muscle meets manhood • .• any organh:a11on could be. But every-
78 TOUGH CUSTOMERS Something to sink your eyes and reeih one owns piece) of those uniforms. Per-
m10 ••• haps it is 1hesoldiers, c;ailo~ and marlne.s
that auract. 0
81 DRUMMEOIA The Berlin Film Festival, our flr~t Video reviews. and
a new novel set m the SM community highlight the media.
85 LEATHER B\JLLETIN BOARD News and evenu from all over . . .
78 DRUMMER DADDIES A very special son rells his tale.
80 FORESKIN UPDATE Bud Berkeley )hare; his mat/ . . .
86 IN PASSING The last word in >earch and seiwre .. .

Cuvc>r ·.mu orro~ilC' />d#;C Your loc:.J/ neighborhood officer, off duty, WJtting for
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