#jack fritscher

[skinhead-thirst]

Leather as ancestry and heritage in kink

Leather as ancestry and heritage in queerness

Leather as spirituality, pain and pleasure and transcendence

Leather as community

Leather as animalness

Leather as holiness

Leather as communion with our Ancestors

Leather as written in blood and death

Leather as written in love and joy

Leather as written in dirt and lube

Leather as "Don't forget where you come from"

Leather as "Remember where you're going"

Leather as poetry in pain and power

Leather as reclamation

Leather as liberation

[leatherbikerpig]

Leather Blues (1969), Jack Fritscher – my favourite leather quote from this awesome leather-themed novel is as follows:

"Leather was the sign of the male. Leather was malehide. Leather was cojones. Balls. Leather was cock. Leather was stud. Leather was men sweating, primal, growing large and hard on each other. Leather was a gag working on a chained initiate. Pissing into the leather lining. Pouring motor oil over the leather britches. Leather was sound, taste, smell. Leather was pleasure. Leather was pain. Leather was tying and being tied. Leather was whipping and being whipped. His skin was leather. Chest-to-chest or back-to-belly, leather moving against leather was the feel, the celebration of man-sex. To become leather was to see that nothing else mattered. To become leather a guy leaves everything else behind...[He] was hard leather, hard muscle, hard cock. Nothing else would ever count as much. When a guy wears leather he gives the finger to the world."

[animalceramics]

“Gay Deteriorata” by Jack Fritscher (1977)

Published in Drummer 21, March 1978

The most Daniel Molloy poem to exist.

Strive at all times to suck, fuck, snort, and stand erect.

Gracefully surrender the things of youth: continual hardons, size 30 Levi’s, tight ass, new tattoos, bootcamp fantasies, and wet dreams.

You are a jerk-off of the Universe.

Make peace with your Master, whatever you consider him to be: Hell’s Angel biker or Sugar Plum Fairy.

The world continues to fuck up. You may as well fiddle as Rome burns. Be happy. Do what you must and call it by the best name possible. Fist yourself, jack off, and try not to drool. And above all, remember that if wrinkles hurt, you’d be screaming. Be thankful you were ever laid in the first place.

This is pretty much exactly the characterisation I have for young Daniel in The Tapes

[creativespark]

Leonard Fink, “Clone Look” 1978 Photography outside the RamRod in NY features Robert Mapplethorpe, Jack Fritscher and Elliott Siegel (who modelled for both Fritscher and Mapplethorpe)

[gaylitreview]

【Leather Blues: A Novel of Leatherfolk】by Jack Fritscher 

 Rating: 4/5 

Short-length SM gay fiction (108 pages). A young man’s initiation into the leather brotherhood. Sixteen-year-old Denny got on a bike with a man-in-leather from out of town. Together they rode into the country and shared a moment of passion. Denny returned home that night knowing he had found what he’d been looking for all his life. Two years later, Denny met another man at the local hardware store. After spending some time together, his new companion introduced Denny to the other members of the “gang” and treated him to a night of extreme pleasure. 

Written in 1969 and published in the Drummer magazine under the alternate title “I’m curious”, Leather Blues is a highly graphic and fearless novel that quickly dives into the world of male bonding and “hard-balling mansex”. If you are interested in the biker gang/SM/leather subculture, Jack Fritscher is a highly regarded author and his book should be a non-brainer. 

Available on kindle for $2.99

[skinhead-thirst]

Leather as ancestry and heritage in kink

Leather as ancestry and heritage in queerness

Leather as spirituality, pain and pleasure and transcendence

Leather as community

Leather as animalness

Leather as holiness

Leather as communion with our Elders

Leather as written in blood and death

Leather as written in love and joy

Leather as written in dirt and lube

Leather as "Don't forget where you come from"

Leather as "Remember where you're going"

Leather as poetry in pain and power

Leather as reclamation

Leather as liberation

[skinhead-thirst]

Read *Leather Blues* and elected to restart this blog. Reading Leather histiry/queer library all Pride Month, maybe I'll keep up with blogging about it.

[msgwendolenfairfax]

In the Voodoo Politics of gay apartheid, any and all gender separatists who think themselves superior activists are in truth hardly more than reactionaries whose separatism is the ugly social crime of segregation within the already divisively sorted alphabet soup of the LGBT community.

Fritscher, Jack: Gay Pioneers: How Drummer Magazine Shaped Gay Popular Culture 1965-1999, p. 366.