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“SUBMIT TO DRUMMER”
PHOTOGRAPHERS, WRITERS, ARTISTS

Want to go down in history? Drummer pays competitive rates for
your photos, artwork, first-person articles, and fiction. Your submis-
sions to “Drummer, The American Magazine of Gay Popular Culture,”
are always welcome. Feature articles average 2,000 words up to
4,000. Short stories run around 2,000 words; longer book-length
manuscripts are acceptable for serialization. Photography and/or
artwork that illustrates your article or story is a definite plus. Always
type and double space your manuscript.
Drummer especially encourages single photographs as well as
photo spreads of up to 20 shots on matter of your choice. We prefer
black-and-white prints, but color transparencies are acceptable and
are reviewed for cover use.
Drummer will take prudent care of your submissions, but can-
not be responsible for their loss. (Wise writers retain a Xerox of their
materials.) Always [in bold] enclose a stamped self-addressed enve-
lope for prompt return of your unused work
For Drummer’s New “Readers’ Section” [my startup of “Tough
Customers”] Drummer pays $10 for each black-and-white photo
accepted for publication from our readers. Submit whatever leather,
western, uniform, jock, fetish, nude, fantasy, sports, etc. photos you
like. For return of unused photos, include a sufficiently stamped
self-addressed return envelope.
Drummer Pays Competitive Rates on Publication.
Send to Drummer editor. —Best Regards, Jack Fritscher

Including my special issue, Son of Drummer (September 1978), in which
I featured “New York Art,” I did everything but send a singing telegram to
Manhattan.
What was Drummer? Chopped liver?
If Drummer were not good enough for their tastes, why weren’t they
clever enough to seize the opportunity, for themselves and for the gay com-
munity, to send in their own improving “better” fiction and features. I
would have seriously considered publishing them.
As if in answer to my open invitation, Picano had sent that story, “Hunter,”
which Embry published, after my exit, in Drummer 39 (October 1980).
Picano’s 1978 poem, “The Deformity Lover,” a spin on Tennessee Williams’
disability-as-sex-fetish story, “One Arm,” was published in Drummer 93

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