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“Down at the River,” 1959. Photograph by Jack Fritscher. ©1959, 2008 Jack Fritscher.
“At age 20, in summer 1959, living in an innocent pre-verbal and pre-gay dream of the
Platonic Ideal of homomasculinity, I composed and photographed my best straight
friend since childhood in a blond-muscle shot that Chuck Renslow, Etienne, and Bob
Mizer could have immediately published on the covers of Mars, Triumph, and Physique
Pictorial, and that I could have published on the cover of the “Gay Jock Sports” issue
Drummer 20 (January 1978). My quintessential 50-year-old photograph pegs me for
what I am and for what my writing and photography are all about.” — Jack Fritscher

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