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June 20, 1979 (Wednesday): I turned forty. Drummer turned four.

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June 24, 1979 (Sunday): Fifty feet west of 18 Street on Castro Street,
Jim Enger and I were cruised by Paul Gerrior and his lover, Craig Caswell,
whom we cruised back. Ten minutes later, our foursome was at my home.
(The handsome actor Paul Gerrior was the original Colt model Ledermeister.
I had been lusting after him since 1968.) I saved the sweaty designer sheets
from that Sunday afternoon, and will always treasure those souvenirs, still
archived, with their long shelf life.

June 25, 1979 (Monday): “Drummer: The Fourth Anniversary Issue.”
Drummer was golden, hot, and haute because it was created out of our ten-
year reality of liberated, joyous sex performed as a high-wire act without a
net. Trying to keep his enemies close, David Sparrow propositioned Jim
Enger who put him off by saying “Not now.”

Footnote #3: Inside the Timeline
Ledermeister: Homomasculine Archetype
of the Leather Archetribe

Here is an eyewitness-participant “oral history” told in the present
tense. It is mentioned because it is typical of the erotic sponta-
neous combustion available to all in the Titanic 1970s. A chance
meeting on one of those cruisy, mobbed summer Sunday after-
noons (June 24, 1979) at 18 and Castro throws Enger and me
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together into an epic four-way at my home with legendary sex icon,
Ledermeister, the 1960s Colt super-model, who was walking with
his own friend, Craig Caswell. Enger, who caused traffic to rear-
end on Castro, and who stopped the legendary Ledermeister in his
tracks, stalled the guests in the living room while I excused myself
to take Ledermeister’s framed photo down from the bedroom wall.
The homomasculine fantasy Enger and I had wished for had arrived
in the gorgeous flesh.
Here the curtain discreetly draws, but the beige designer
sheets, like a madeleine from Proust, have been saved as holy relics
which to this day have never been washed. Those sheets are among
my souvenirs with a lock of David Sparrow’s strawberry-roan hair,
a small chunk of cement from the Berlin Wall, a fragment of bone
from the leg of Saint Isidore, the suntan-brown posing briefs of Jim
Enger, a tiny Titian, the key to Mapplethorpe’s 24 Bond Street loft,
my personal ticket and program treasured since August 7, 1961,

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