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CHAPTER 7

THE DRUMMER SALON

ON THE 69 DAY,
TH
GOD CREATED QUEERS
AND THE QUEERS REBELLED

• Declaring Homosexuality a Religion Protected by the
Constitution
• The Manic-Depressive 1970s: Gay Saints; Gay Civil War;
the Printer as Censor
• Blasphemy: The Outer Limit of the Radical Avant Garde;
Jesus Christ Superstar; Kenneth Anger; the Satanic
Mapplethorpe; and “Jesus D’Pressed”
• Man2Man Quarterly: “Virtual Drummer”
• East Coast-West Coast Literary Rivalry: New Yorkers Try
to “Manhattanize” San Francisco
• Allegedly: Kramer, Picano, White, and the Violet Quill;
Sasha Alyson; Elizabeth Gershman, and Knights Press
• Erotica: The Essence of Gay Literature
• Despite Feminist Fantasy, Anne Rice Never Wrote for
Drummer

“Erotic writing begins with one stroke of the pen
and ends with many strokes of the penis.”
—Jack Fritscher

I confess after eleven years studying for the Catholic priesthood, I have a
certain apostolic quality that is outlaw and hard to institutionalize because
I think homosexuality is the natural and intuitive Old Religion predat-
ing revealed religions such as Druidism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
In this carpe diem concept lies the liberation of homosexuality through
Constitutional freedom of religion. Why not? Joseph Smith did it in the
1820s conjuring up the Mormons with his doctrine of polygamy to justify
to his screaming wife why their pretty young maid was his mistress. British

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