Page 209 - An Historical Perspective of the Covers, Mastheads, Contents, and Staff of DRUMMER Magazine

Alternate Publishing: John H. Embry, Publisher
Robert Payne, Editor

"II o mon does not keep pcce
with his companions.. perhaps It
IS beeouse ho neon o diff01onf
drummer Lat htm step to the PRAISE THE LORD
AND PASS THE AMMUNITION
mu$1C which ha hears. ho't'.'fNel
meosuru<;J or for owoy. ~ Mos! minorities are used to some form
Henry Dovld Thoreau of per~ecu1lon. And when that pressure
eases up occa~1onally, they begin per~e·
c.uting each other. The Pro1es1an1s got it
from the Catholics and vice versa,
depending on who I~ 1he local majority.
The Jews gel it from both or them and
most everybody elie. But the one~ eve-
rybody can all have an open season on
are the g11ys
In New Yori< Ciry. for the Gily Pride
4 HERE THEY COME Parade, the coordinators came up with a
They're off and running-Mr. Drummen coming lrom every- gimmick to cover the cost of the ponable
where to compete In che finals in San Francisco. Leather's big toilets. For seventy bucks you could
night preceded by a 101 of other big leather nighcs. "name a toilet for your favorite honio-
12 INTERNATIONAL MR. LEATHER phobe " The fi~t 1wo to be sponsored
Meanwhile In Chicago .•. were the "John Cardinal O'Connor
Throne Room" .tnd "Yehuda's Heaven"
15 REPORT (for R.ibbt Yehuda Levin). Before some-
Leather new> and all the shit that·~ fit to print. one came up with a name for " tollet
17 DRUMMER FORUM ded1coned lo le1ry Falwell, 1he Port-0-
The Drummer philo~ophy as expressed by iH reader>. San Corp. s111d fhey would not ren1 1he
20 MAlECAll 101leti. If that was the U$e they were being
pu110.
22 MAIMED BEAUTY And spe.ikang of Jerry "Moral Major-
We never expected ~o many lerters even on th/, unusual ~ubject ity" "liberty federation" "Christian
26 LEATHER NOTEBOOK by Larry Townsend Ant1discrlm1na11on" falwell-hc has
Leather advice from 1he old Master. pressured U.S. Attorney General
27 BOOK SECTlON "Mickey" Meese Into threatening the
BOUND FOR GLORY (P;art Six) by M;a~n Powell Soulltland Corp. Into throwing Playboy
The exoclc escapade$ of Conar and Chom continue m "The and Penthou>e out or 1heir stor~. some-
Torturers of Rhengfel." __ _ thing Falwell alone had failed to bring
.ibou1. The Jlutice Department has
40 FICTION: YES, MASTER by Kenn Richie become a lackey for 1he Chrisiian Cra-
Two little words to live by
zies. whose neltt target will in all likell·
47 PHOTO SHOW by Mkh•el Rosen hood be gays.
Mak.mg SM a universal e1tperience. Of course, nothing iuo bad 1ha1 some-
56 DEAR SIR! body can't make 11 a linle worse. The gay
Twenry pages of men who want to hear from you. community continues 10 reel over the
15 DRUMMEDIA/ Movles{Vldeos/ Boolcs onslaught or AIDS which. for lack of a
cure or even a treatment, i~ decimating
Whatever i~ of incerei <o 1he men who read Drummer.
our brother~ lelt and right The govern·
81 REQUIEMS/THE MINESHAFT/THE SLOT men1 Is lndiHctent at beit and what
On two coast~. two beloved spaces to play are no mor'e. monies it h.:is reluctantly aimed at com-
86 LEATHER BULLETIN BOARD batting the disease. It h.u had to be
The club!>, the happenings from Frank O'Rourke lorced Into. Falwell ~t al. have pred1da·
87 ORUM by Bill Wird bly taken every opportunity 10 1rea1 the
plasue as opporlunis1ically and as
91 TOUGH CUSTOMERS unchns1i.anlike .u possible.
Whal you see 1s what you get. But for the moment, rh~e ;ire noL the
92 DANCES SACRW AND PROFANE factors we have to concern o urselves
Fakir Musa(ar Is a living, breathing collec11on of hole. with. The wom enemy 1s ourselves. We
98 IN PASSING have to knod. ofl the drugs, the senseless
A liltte of this, a llule of that. expo~ure, the healty·destroying an11~
we luicuria1ed In for so many years In
Cover: I h1) photo was taken during the Mr Southern C.illform .. ~earch of a good Lime We have to sup-
Drummer lhow at Probe 111 Hollywood by Rose de Curro, who d1dn'1 port our own. Nobody el~e 1s going 10 do
ijive U> 1he p.m1dpan1's lldme unforrumuely. It. Certalnly not this administration and
Opposite page. Baclcsround o the T1ocadero Trcinster during rhe 1984 ce1 ta Inly not many of the religious chari·
Mr Drummet pJrry Hunky con1~1.1nt /s from the same evem ties. Not even the United Way.
A good slogan for these time> should
be "No ch,ulties but gay charltie51"
Amen.
-John 1-1. Embry .

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