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their home in Venice Beach were not shameful. Those two, like all the
others, were worth kissing. They were worth telling. They were indeed
some dance to remember.”
In his History of Our Leather-S/M Fetish Sub-Culture and
Communities, leather historian David Stein, a founder of Gay Male S/M
Activists (GMSMA), adroitly sussed out that the unabashed salon around
Drummer was a hyper-active hive of esthetic, social, and sexual connec-
tions: “Fritscher, one of the great Drummer editors, seems to have been
everywhere and done everyone during the ‘good old days’ of leather.”

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