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13. September 1992. Dutch businessman Martijn Bakker buys Drummer
and, beginning with Drummer 159, mistakenly Europeanizes Drummer
whose secret of success is that it is a quintessentially American magazine
of gay and leather popular culture; Bakker re-titles Drummer as Interna-
tional Drummer

14. 1996. Internet arrives and causes slow death of 20 -century gay maga-
th
zines; Drummer 214 is the final issue (April 1999); Bakker officially closes
the Drummer business on September 30, 1999

EYEWITNESS: DRUMMER TIMELINE & SCORE CARD
3 OWNER/PUBLISHERS + 1 CONTRIBUTOR

1. John Henry Embry, Publisher: 11 years, 1975-1986, issues
1-98
“Much of the 116 issues that followed the first 100 didn’t have all
that much to recommend it [sic].” — John Embry

2. Anthony DeBlase and Andrew Charles, AIDS-era Publishers: 6
years, 1986-1992, issues 99-158
“We were fools to buy Drummer.” — Andrew Charles

3. Martijn Bakker, Publisher: 6 years, 1992-1999, issues 159-
214
“The Dutchman was the sole killer of Drummer and all it stood
for.” — Mister Marcus

4. Jack Fritscher, Contributor: 17 years, 1977-1995; founding San
Francisco editor in chief, March 1977-December 31, 1979;
Drummer’s most frequent contributor in 65 issues, often with sev-
eral contributions to each issue; only editor to shoot Drummer covers
“Drummer was a home, and a home run.” — Jack Fritscher

“Jack Fritscher is . . . the man who invented the South of
Market prose style as well as its magazines which have
never been the same without him.”
— John F. Karr, Bay Area Reporter, June 27, 1985

3 SAN FRANCISCO VERSIONS OF DRUMMER
SORTED BY 3 OFFICE ADDRESSES

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