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CHAPTER 13

ANNUS MIRABILIS 1979
(THE WONDERFUL YEAR 1979)

My Drummer Desk Calendar
Personal Annotations and Bibliography
My 1979 Life Editing Drummer in Real Time

• 1978-1979 Eyewitness Drummer Timeline: Fulsome
Details of Folsom Street
• 2 Guns: Harvey Milk Assassination (27 November 1978)
plus Robert Opel Murder (July 8, 1979) Both Impact
Drummer; Fritscher Turns Down Job as Deputy Sheriff of
San Francisco
• Fritscher Desk Calendar: Editing Drummer; Dating
Robert Mapplethorpe and Introducing His Photography
into Leather Culture; Colt Models Chuck Romanski
and Dan Pace; Bodybuilder Champ Jim Enger; the
Artist Domino; Meeting Mark Hemry at Harvey Milk’s
Birthday Party, and Outing Gay Cowboys with Randy
Shilts
• December 31, 1979: Fritscher Exits Drummer having
edited Drummer issues from 18 to 33

“A career in the arts can make anyone crazy...”
—Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws:
The Gay Writers Who Changed America

My Wonderful Year, my action-packed Annus Mirabilis, was 1979. I had the
good fortune to be the young editor-in-chief of the hottest gay magazine on
the planet. Everyone was having carefree, simultaneous, and epic polyam-
orous affairs. Besides romancing the troops on the streets and at the baths,
I was having fun playing at being Joe Orton’s “Mr. Sloane,”entertaining
my intimate significant others: Robert Mapplethorpe, Jim Enger, David
Sparrow, Tony Tavarossi, and Mark Hemry.

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