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Stonewall

Stories of Gay Liberation

By: Jack Fritscher

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Stonewall

Stories of Gay Liberation

By: Jack Fritscher

At Stonewall," Jack Fritscher wrote, "gay character changed." In June 1969, the legendary Stonewall Rebellion in New York's Greenwich Village began the national gay civil rights movement. Fritscher, one-time lover of Robert Mapplethorpe and early intimate of elegant Picasso biographer and "Vanity Fair" author John Richardson, is the highly acclaimed novelist, award-winning historian, and polished prose stylist. His best-selling "Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982" pairs perfectly with his nonfiction tour de force "Gay San Francisco" as "roots" landmarks in gay literature. "The Advocate" said that "Fritscher writes...wonderful books" and that he made "the Castro mythic." In his fiction collection celebrating Stonewall turning forty, Fritscher-turning seventy-unreels nine perfectly crafted stories introduced by literary critics Richard Labont of A Different Light and by Mark Thompson of "The Advocate." Labont "A sterling collection...perfectly catches our bitchy bravura." Thompson: "Hilarious, exquisite, empowering stories about how fabulous we are." Editor Mark Hemry selected the tales in this edition to show, first, how Stonewall affected gay culture (on the Gay Axis connecting Stonewall to San Francisco), and, second, how Fritscher in the West Coast school of writing helped build the national aftermath of the East Coast Stonewall. Among fellow authors such as Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, Felice Picano, and the pseudonymous Andrew Holleran, Fritscher is the eldest and the first published (1950s) and is the only lifelong magazine editor, journalist, and photographer. His truly distinctive contribution to GLBT literature has been his widening-precisely with his recurrent themes of humanism and eros-the liminal diversity of the gay literary canon in books such as his controversial memoir of his affair with the much-damned photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in "Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera." "Stonewall " surveys the fictive essence of his 50-year career capturing the character, dialogue, and nuance of the gay culture whose emotional curves he loves. Willie Walker, founder of the GLBT Historical Society of San Francisco, has observed: "Fritscher is a prolific writer who since the late 1960s has helped document the gay world and the changes it has undergone." Guided by a rather good sense of gaydar in this new collection, Fritscher celebrates gay "drama" and diversity and "brilliant gay voices" in these nine tales scanning the curvature of the gay Earth--from the 1906 earthquake in "Meet Me in San Francisco" through the 1969 Stonewall rebellion up to gay marriage in "Mrs. Dalloway Went That-A-Way." Recommended for public and academic libraries, and for special collections of gay literature and GLBT studies, as well as for coffee-house, commute, vacation, and bedside reading. "'Stonewall' is pitch-perfect." Thomas Long, editor, "Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly," University of Connecticut

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1890834440

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9781890834449

What They Did to the Kid

Confessions of an Altar Boy

By: Jack Fritscher

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What They Did to the Kid

Confessions of an Altar Boy

By: Jack Fritscher

What They Did to the Kid" is a memoir spinning as a comic novel for general-fiction readers intrigued by boys' school tales, and baby boomers who "survived Catholic school." Ryan O'Hara, coming of age from 14 to 24, is the wise adolescent narrating readers' entry into the secret culture of 1950's altar boys who go to the seminary, meet priests, and must decide their own identities. The novel's interior ticking covers the clock and calendar of boys' emerging consciences and edgy consciousness. "The San Francisco Chronicle" says, "Jack Fritscher reads gloriously." Strong characters and snappy dialog propel the character-driven plot of male-dominant pecking order. At Misericordia Seminary (aptly nicknamed "Misery"), Ryan O'Hara exposes his own story. He's trapped for oxygen-with 500 other boys-by the imperial Rector Karg, the disciplinarian Father Gunn "of the USMC," the tart Father Polistina, and the rebel-priest Chris Dryden "who knows Fellini and JFK." The storytelling Irish-American author gives each ensemble character-hero or villain, student or priest, man or woman-a rich back story. Black civil rights of the 60's as well as three interesting women characters open this tale out of the suffocating seminary and on to the hot streets of Chicago's South Side and Old Town. The compelling psychological drama hinges on the very source and aspirations of priestly vocation versus self-esteem. "Is God calling me-and what about chastity? Or is it just the 'Bali Hai' of blind ambition and social climbing-and what about sex?" Fritscher makes deeper than usual sense of soulful coming-of-age material. The hearty supply of boarding school episodes cumulatively reveals the dueling dynamic between the boyish protagonist, Ryan O'Hara, and the callous ambition of the handsome bully, Tank Rimsky, as they fight toward the finish line of "manly men's" ordination to the priesthood. "The hardest thing to be in America today is a man." The novel is based on an under-reported story: the Catholic Church recruited 200,000 boys into seminaries in the 1950's. Only 20,000 were ordained. "Kid" details, in a nostalgic and not unkind take what happened to the missing 180,000 boys and the women and men in their families. Daring to step inside Catholic culture, without being parochial, this American story reveals the 1950's roots of 21st-century "recovering Catholic" panic and angst. The millions of post-Catholic baby boomers who have exited the Church will compare notes and laugh knowingly at the dead-on characterizations. Fashionably anti-Catholic campers will say, "but, of course " Readers might catalog "Kid" in the genre of "Young Torless, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," and "Lord of the Flies." Before now, no one of the surviving 180,000 ex-seminarians has dared reveal this insider confession on the secret milieu of the Catholic education of priests. From interviews with more than a hundred former seminarians, Jack Fritscher uniquely stages their true story arcs with wit, verve, and comedy. "What They Did to the Kid" is the fourth novel from Jack Fritscher whose twelve books have sold more than 100,000 copies. Jack Fritscher is a graduate of the prestigious Pontifical College Josephinum, a Roman Catholic seminary, located in Columbus, Ohio, and directly subject to the Vatican in Rome. He received his doctorate in American Literature from Loyola University, Chicago.

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1890834378

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9781890834371

Popular Witchcraft

Straight from the Witch's Mouth

By: Jack Fritscher

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Popular Witchcraft

Straight from the Witch's Mouth

By: Jack Fritscher

Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth, inspired by the British Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft Today, was the first book to be published on popular American witchcraft and remains the classic survey of white and black magic. Newly revised and updated for twenty-first-century readers, the author--an ordained but marvelously fallen exorcist--tells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch trials, the Old Religion, magic Christianity, Satanism, and New Age self-help. Jack Fritscher sifts through legends of sorcery and the twisted history of witchcraft, including the casting of spells and incantations, with a focus on the growing role of witchcraft in popular culture and its mainstream commercialization through popular music, Broadway, Hollywood, and politics. As seriously historical as it is fun to read, there is no other book like it.

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Popular Press

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0299203042

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The Geography of Women

A Romantic Comedy : a Novel

By: Jack Fritscher

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The Geography of Women

A Romantic Comedy : a Novel

By: Jack Fritscher

Telling her story at the end of the 20th century, Laydia Spain O'Hara, untangles the past of fourteen characters' lives tied together in a small southern Illinois town from the mid-1950s of Elvis through the mid-1960s after Kennedy's Camelot. Her comic tale of faces unmasking -- and conflicts resolving -- is a human journey about coming of age and inventing one's self despite all gossip while keeping the torch of true love burning. In a triangle with her two best friends, Jessarose and Mizz Lulabelle, Laydia Spain outwits convention, opens her own boarding house, and discovers a solidarity in new ideas of family, home, and the human heart that mirror the vast social changes sweeping American culture during the mid-century.

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Palm Drive Publishing

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1890834254

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9781890834258

OK2BG

By: Jack Dunsmoor

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OK2BG

By: Jack Dunsmoor

OK2BG is narrative nonfiction, a Memoir about a guy who wants to be a Mentor preferably to a teenager, so they can have a decent & meaningful conversation about stuff & preferably with a kid at-risk, or just otherwise lost, in order to help both the teenager as well as the determined subject of this story realize their unique potential & find or reinforce their place in the world. Overall, a chronicle about the author’s attempt over several years to understand the question of ‘why do I want to be a Mentor’ which eventually helps him become a more insightful person. Subsequently in September, 2010 after a plague of teen suicides, Jack turns his attention to researching gay biographies into optimistically appropriate groups of books for gay kids at-risk, from bullying. After 5 years Jack has categorized 2,000+ books in the form of Memoirs, Biographies & Autobiographies written by or about 1,000+ allegedly gay men. The primary message in OK2BG is to read & reassess before you run asunder!

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Lulu.com

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1483428540

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9781483428543

Fishman's Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders, 2-Volume Set, 5th edition

By: Michael A. Grippi,Jack A. Elias,Jay A. Fishman,Allan I. Pack,Robert M. Senior,Robert Kotloff

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Fishman's Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders, 2-Volume Set, 5th edition

By: Michael A. Grippi,Jack A. Elias,Jay A. Fishman,Allan I. Pack,Robert M. Senior,Robert Kotloff

Turn to the field's definitive text for a thoroughunderstanding of the clinical and scientific aspects of pulmonary medicine Since 1980, Fishman's Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders has delivered unparalleled coverage of pulmonary medicine and the underlying basic and applied science upon which clinical practice is based. The Fifth Edition, with 270 contributing authors, includes over 2,000 illustrations, 60 videos, and 18,000 references. The book opens with a comprehensive overview of the scientific basis of lung function in health and disease. It then provides detailed coverage of the broad array of diseases and disorders affecting the respiratory system, including obstructive and restrictive diseases, pulmonary vascular disorders, sleep-disordered breathing, lung neoplasms,respiratory infections, and respiratory failure, among others. The Fifth Edition has been completely updated to reflect the many advancements that have been made in pulmonary medicine over the past few years, including: Molecular development of the lung Stem cells and respiratory disease Genetics of pulmonary disease and the growth of personalized medicine Technical advances in lung transplantation Growth in immunology and immunosuppressive management Diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension Circadian rhythms and sleep biology Rapid evolution in lung imaging techniques, including functional imaging Contemporary interventional bronchoscopic techniques You will also find state-of-the-art coverage of thelatest topics in critical care medicine, including: Early diagnosis and management of sepsis Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) Management of agitation and delirium in the ICU The newly defined entity of "chronic critical illness

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1259589129

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Stonewall

Stories of Gay Liberation

By: Jack Fritscher

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Stories of Gay Liberation

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Anton LaVey Speaks

By: Jack Fritscher

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Anton LaVey Speaks

By: Jack Fritscher

At midnight on the historic night of July 29, 1971, High Priest Anton LaVey sat down with journalist Jack Fritscher in the dramatic sanctuary of his Church of Satan in San Francisco to speak frankly about the role of the Satanic Church and Satanism in the ongoing revolution around sex, race, and gender. This seminal interview, conducted in the fifth Satanic Year, is the first and earliest in-depth interview given by Anton LaVey whose Satanic Bible was published only two years before in 1969. Marcello Truzzi wrote in Fate magazine: "This is the most candid and informative interview that Anton LaVey has given anyone for publication to date." LaVey and Fritscher hit it off. LaVey responds graciously, humorously, and definitively about how and why he founded his Church while he addresses American religions, white wicca, the Manson Family, and the death of Jayne Mansfield. He sets the record straight declaring to Fritscher that he played the Devil in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby. Growing more golden over the past fifty years, this interview has entered the classic "Canon of Satanic Literature" in the Church of Satan. Certainly, the candid conversation catches one of the most intriguing men of the 20th century around the moment when the Swinging 1960s became the Titanic 1970s that helped shaped the myth, magic, and mysticism of our new century. Here is the truth of what Anton LaVey said. He himself frequently endorsed the accuracy. This is the original question and answer format of the interview.

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1890834564

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The Geography of Women

A Romantic Comedy : a Novel

By: Jack Fritscher

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A Romantic Comedy : a Novel

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Stonewall: Stories of Gay Liberation

By: Jack Fritscher

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Stonewall: Stories of Gay Liberation

By: Jack Fritscher

Stonewall' is pitch-perfect." Thomas Long, editor, "Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly." ...And perfect to celebrate "Stonewall 50." Richard Labonte, founder, A Different Light Bookstore: "A sterling collection...perfectly catches our bitchy bravura." Mark Thompson, "Advocate" editor: "Hilarious, exquisite, empowering stories about how fabulous we are." Jack Fritscher, at eighty, is the San Francisco author whose 50-year career coincides with "Stonewall 50" itself. "At Stonewall," he wrote, "gay character changed." As award-winning historian, magazine editor, and filmmaker who wrote his 1967 dissertation on Tennessee Williams, he is a vivid stylist who represents gay literature as American literature in 20 books including his memoir of his lover Robert Mapplethorpe, "Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera," and his Lammy Finalist and "ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year" winner, "Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982." "The Advocate" wrote: "Fritscher writes...wonderful books...he made the Castro mythic." Willie Walker, founder, San Francisco GLBT Historical Society, observed: "Fritscher is a prolific writer who since the late 1960s has helped document the gay world and the changes it has undergone." Guided by a veteran elder's canonical sense of gaydar, Fritscher celebrates gay "drama," diversity, and magical thinking in these ten tales scanning the curvature of the Queer Earth--from the 1906 earthquake in "Meet Me in San Francisco" through the campfest last hour before the NYPD raid in "Stonewall: June 27, 1969, 11 PM", and up to gay marriage in "Mrs. Dalloway Went That-A-Way." Recommended for libraries, LGBT studies, and gay pop-culture collections.

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1890834211

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Gay Pioneers: How Drummer Magazine Shaped Gay Popular Culture 1965-1999

By: Jack Fritscher

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Gay Pioneers: How Drummer Magazine Shaped Gay Popular Culture 1965-1999

By: Jack Fritscher

This Leather Origin Story of investigative journalism is an eyewitness oral history about a soon-to-be-lost generation of a once-important subculture of gay pioneers. In our leather archetribe, Drummer helped create the very culture it reported on. Drummer was a revolutionary idea evolving in monthly motion. Drummer portrayed our desires to organize our thoughts to inform our practices to create our leather identity. In 214 issues from 1975 to 1999, Drummer was a first draft of leather history and the "magazine of record" for our BDSM species within generic LGBT history. Gay Pioneers continues the leather-heritage GPS mapping Fritscher began in his NLA-I award-winning book, Gay San Francisco. Curious how high we leatherfolk once flew? Fritscher based this book on the "black-box flight recorder" he recovered from the "take-off, cruising altitude, and crash" of Drummer. Young readers will get up to speed fast on the backstage fun and games of who did what to whom, and how Drummer shaped 20th-century leather for 21st-century leatherfolk. Grounded on evidence inside Drummer, and in eyewitness diaries, letters, and interviews, this fact-checked masterwork recalls the thrill it was for millions of readers to pick up their first issue of Drummer. For that a price was paid. Against all odds, Drummer survived 24 years of stress from cruel censorship, plague, and politics that got the Drummer staff arrested, causing Drummer to move from disaster in Los Angeles to destiny in San Francisco. Gay Pioneers is a living history of leatherfolk written in human blood tattooed on human skin.

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Eyewitness Drummer

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1890834173

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9781890834173

Television Today: A Primer of Critical Thinking, Censorship, Social Justice, and Fake News in American Popular Culture

By: Jack Fritscher

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Television Today: A Primer of Critical Thinking, Censorship, Social Justice, and Fake News in American Popular Culture

By: Jack Fritscher

Tuning in to media literacy as a modern survival skill. Because all of human life ends up on television today, as it did fifty years ago, the principles of critical thinking need to be taught to each young generation because fake news never dies. This lively and historic pop-culture guide teaching how to decode television was written when a pre-Watergate Richard Nixon was president, and republished during the 2020 election disruption of media. It affirms that timeless principles of critical thinking do not change, nor does human behavior. This 1970 book is an artifact of its times which were then--and now. Nixon can be a synonym for Trump. The necessity of critical thinking for one's self-defense never goes away. This book suggests that the goal for a person's liberation from authoritarians and fundamentalists through education is the ability to interpret, understand, and survive the towering babble of people, media, politics, religion, art, and society. In the 1960s, high schools and universities were the crucible of revolution and change around war, race, and gender. That fact angered conservative politicians who have continued with purpose to systematically de-fund education from kindergarten to college, and have allowed student debt to rise to discouraging levels, because American citizens schooled in critical thinking are a voting population of logic, resistance, and change that questions their rhetoric, and threatens their regime, riches, religion, and reasoning. In his foreword, the author explains: "I wrote this book for teen-age students while teaching American literature on one of those progressive university campuses in the 1960s when film-crazy and politically active students enthusiastically diverted arts-and-ideas discussions of classic literary works into topical discussions of current film and media. They impelled me to reinvent my 'Literary Interpretation' classes within the department of English by adding film/television as a fourth genre to fiction, poetry, and drama as a relevant way to teach principles of critical thinking freshened via the popular culture of movie and television screens. In the half-century since, the names of people and titles of programs have changed, but the principles of critical thinking remain the same.

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1890834475

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Sex Stop

By: Jack Fritscher

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Sex Stop

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True Revelations & Strange Happenings from 18 Wheeler

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0943595037

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Jack and Jack

By: Jack & Jack

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Jack and Jack

By: Jack & Jack

Vine royalty, YouTube megastars, hip-pop sensations, and best friends, Jack & Jack bring their own brand of irreverent comedy, on-point style, and heartfelt life advice to You Don't Know Jacks. Jack & Jack: You Don't Know Jacks is a 240-page, full-colour behind-the-scenes look at the lives of Jack Gilinsky and Jack Johnson, two of the hottest stars performing today. The book details the rise of two best friends growing up in Nebraska, posting Nerd Vandals Vines, to becoming iTunes bestselling rap-rock stars. Full of exclusive photographs, backstage antics, and hilarious anecdotes, it's perfect for any fan who's ever dreamed of someday being famous.

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1786480638

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Stonewall

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What They Did to the Kid

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The Geography of Women

The Geography of Women

OK2BG

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Fishman's Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders, 2-Volume Set, 5th edition

Fishman's Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders, 2-Volume Set, 5th edition

Stonewall

Stonewall

Anton LaVey Speaks

Anton LaVey Speaks

The Geography of Women

The Geography of Women

Stonewall: Stories of Gay Liberation

Stonewall: Stories of Gay Liberation

Gay Pioneers: How Drummer Magazine Shaped Gay Popular Culture 1965-1999

Gay Pioneers: How Drummer Magazine Shaped Gay Popular Culture 1965-1999

Television Today: A Primer of Critical Thinking, Censorship, Social Justice, and Fake News in American Popular Culture

Television Today: A Primer of Critical Thinking, Censorship, Social Justice, and Fake News in American Popular Culture

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