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"If o man does not keep pace We ;ire indebted 10 the New York
wtth his companions. perhaps If Native for the following:
is beeouse he hears o different "Apparently. Jerry Falwell is familiar
drummer. Let him step to the with the New York N;llive. which Ted
music which he hears. however Koppel mentioned on his (ABC) edition
measured or for O'NOY. ~ of Nightllne. KopJM!I quoted from a leuer
signed by Falwell that was sent to the
Henry David Thoreau
Moral Majority flock; the Native printed
the letter. Falwell denied that he had sent
4 SPECIAL SECTION: oul the letter, which mu~t have come as a
A SERIOUS LOOK AT SM surprl~e to 1he thou$ands of people who
In 1985, SM is more out of the closet-and more controversial- received it on his stationery. Falwell ls one
lhan ever /() time for some ~traight talk. Starting on page 4 are of the more dishonest and dangerous
excerpt from Sadomasochism: True Confessions, a work-in- demagogues on the American scene
progress by photographer Bill Bowen and interviewer Tim today, and we wonder why he was
8arru~-a raw. provocative look into private lives. Beginning on brought In to d<!bate an Issue like >.IDS.
page 14 1s SM: A View of Sadomilsochism by Don Miesen of the Falwell belon~ In ~uch a position as much
Society of Janus, one of tl1e most clear-headed and authentic as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. And
introductions to 1he ubject we've yet discovered. someone should teach him how to pro·
nounce Friedman-Kien. It's the kind of
18 HUN-Of-THE-MONTH Mme his crowd etlway~ had trouble
Get ready-can you handle one of these guys every month? pronouncing."
19 REPORT GOODBYE POPPERS!
26 MALECAll "Studies show that 96% (at least) of the
gay men with AIDS u~ed poppers. usually
28 DRUMMER DADDIES qui1e heavily. Three different studies
30 DRUMSTICKS found that exposure to amyl or isobutyl
31 MAil-ORDER MUSQE by Joey Ganimeed nil rite, ell her through Injection or Inhala-
tion, caused Immunological deficiency 1n
Ayoun/f bodybuilder into wrestling, a mail-order trainer, and a
whopping ca)e of mistaken identity-the confusion almost gets mice. In a fourth study. mice exposed to
lsobutyl nitrite vapors developed tym1c
out of hand. Who can think stra1gh1 with a roaring hard-on/
atrophy. Autopsi~ of AIDS vldlms show
37 DRILL SERGEANT by Bolt Tanner the thymus gland 10 be destroyed. No
When the Sergeanl tells a raw recrui1 to get down on rhe mat- 1hymus gland. no immune system. A fifth
he goes down I mice study could not be urrled throuRh
40 FLY (Put Two) by Don Perry to completion. RegardlesJ of whether the
isobutyl nhrite was ingested, inhaled or
Our burly !>lud's unsatisfied anal urge is about to get taken care injected, all of the mice died.
of-in a bigger way than he expects.
"Aside from 1hat, poppers are known
49 LEATHER NOTEBOOK to cause Heinz body cell anemia, methe-
Larry Towmend take1 a ball-chain freak 10 task. moglob1nem1a, serious skin burns. death
51 SPECIAL CATALOG SUPPLEMENT: THE SOURO or brain damdge from cardiovascular col·
lapse or stroke, dizziness., headaches .-ind
59 DEAR SIR! lung problems. Poppers have been used
More me11 than you can shake a dick at I to commit suicide and murder.
79 DRUMMEDIA MOVIES "Poppers became a fod among gay men
Arthur Bressan's Buddies tackles politics, death and self- In 1972, just seven years before the flr~l
discovery on the big screen. ca~s of AIDS began to be diagnosed."
John L.lurltsen
83 DRUMMEDIA BOOKS
S?ulli by Southwest: Two erotic, eye-opening fiction antholo- MARGE ANDERSON was no stranger to
gies uncover 1exas men and Georgia rednecks. gety journalism. YCilr:> ago she helped set
up Oar.a Boy in Southern California and
88 DRUMMEDIA VIDEO did all its typesetting. She typeset
Choices from Adam & Co.: wild men in a high-tech environ- Drummer as well when we were there,
ment. or high-tech in the wild? then moved up 10 San Francisco with u~ In
91 DRUM by Bill WMd '78. Her only reaction 10 our purple prose
Sometimes, even Drum )(rikes out . .. was to tell me once that "typing this ~tu ff
makes me horny as hell and, dammit,
94 CREASY JOCKS! there is nothing In the building e1Ccept
Photographer Robert Pru2an takes us on an inside tour of an gay guys,.. and sne would laugh her
unu~u.JI comest a1 one of San Francisco'5 wildest leather bars. hearty laugh. Her cooking was legend
104 TOUGH CUSTOMERS and we .;all tried to keep on her good side
106 PARTINC SHOT along about Christmas cookie lime when
You'll cream when you see it/ they would deliver the Ingredients by the
truckle.id. But Marge really never had any
other side than a good one.
Then she moved to Alaska to be near
Ct111t•r Mlclc1"f Sfluirc' abusing hi\ uniform ~1111/1 a 1111/e 1pl/.Jbu e (from rhe vl11l>0 IOYJ of her son and daughter. The 11ew$ arrived
S.-ll·AbuW!J. phmo by PJrrick Nunn. Opf)<>Ji1e Pa1o1e SM-the liel th;it bind. Just before our press time that during an
Drummcrloio.
operation her great and generous hear1
finally gave out.
The mullitude of friends in the gay
community will miss her along with her
friends .:u Drummer. -30-. Marge.
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