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CHAPTER 18

VENOM NEVER DIES
The Drummer Blacklist

Summary Evidence
Suitable for a Cross Examination

• Unknown to GLBT Readers, Wicked Grudges Poison
the Well of Gay Culture with Publishers of Books,
Magazines, Newspapers, Archives, and Websites
• Feuding, Fussing, and Fighting: Robert Mapplethorpe,
Larry Townsend, John Rowberry, John Preston, Mr.
Benson, Frank Hatfield, Rick Leathers, Jim French, Colt
Studio
• Embry vs. the LAPD, David Goodstein, The Advocate,
LA Publishing Peers, Other Gay Magazines, His Own
Talent Pool of Writers and Artists, as Well as Drummer
Publisher #2, Anthony F. DeBlase, and Drummer
Publisher #3, Martijn Bakker
• Embry’s Final Grudge: Against Drummer Itself

“Don’t throw your past away. You might need it some rainy day.”
—Peter Allen, The Boy from Oz

In the twentieth century, few people took time to take notes on the gay
past while it was the speeding present they paid scant attention to from the
1960s to 1999. Recalling that Rashomon past which I chronicled beginning
in my mid-century journals, I am no innocent naif amazed at the politics,
skullduggery, and dirty laundry in gay publishing, literature, or any other
gay or straight pecking group. I am an academically trained arts and popular
culture analyst who, having climbed up from my father’s traveling-salesman
household, has had several careers inside groups way more dynamic, power-
ful, and byzantine than gay publishing.
Starting out at seventeen as an editorial assistant in the snake pit of the
Catholic press, I survived religion (eleven years in the Catholic Seminary),

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