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CHAPTER 9

STEALING DRUMMER
AN ORIGIN STORY OF GAY MAIL-ORDER

• Copyright War: Protecting Writers, Photographers,
Artists, and Heirs
• David Begelman: Hollywood Studio “Money Scandal”
Impacts San Francisco Drummer
• Richard Locke and Daddies: Turning a Man’s Age into
Erotic Fetish
• Gay Culture: Entrapped by Law and Then by AIDS
• Mail-Order Pioneers Create 20th-Century Gay Popular
Culture:
Bob Mizer, AMG Studio
Chuck Renslow and Etienne, Kris Studio
Larry Townsend, LT Publications
David Hurles, Old Reliable Studio
• Author Daniel Curzon: An Eyewitness to History
Testifies about Publisher Embry

“We were fools to buy Drummer.”
—Anthony F. DeBlase, Letter to Jack Fritscher, 1988

Since the advent of the internet, scan-and-post poachers have continually
sniffed around the contents of Drummer because there is a popular miscon-
ception that everything gay is somehow “gay community property.”
From Drummer 1 to Drummer 214, as far as I know about other authors,
photographers, and friends whom I published, and certainly I know about
myself, Drummer bought only one-time First North American print publi-
cation rights. It did not buy second reprint rights, and, certainly, not elec-
tronic rights that would allow Drummer or anyone else, for instance, to scan
a page of Drummer and post it on the web.
The principle of “fair use” is a minimalist law.
As the owner of Alternate Publishing, Embry wrote specifically in his
Manifest Reader 11 (1995) about the intellectual property rights he typically

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