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Drummer Feature Article: Remembrance of Sleaze Past HOW TO LEGALLY QUOTE THIS MATERIAL www.JackFritscher.com/Drummer/Research%20Note.html DRUMMER FEATURE ARTICLE ©Jack Fritscher. See Permissions, Reprints, Quotations, Footnotes REMEMBRANCE OF SLEAZE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE AlternativesDRAFT to the Queer Theory of Vanillarinas ©Jackby Jack Fritscher This entire feature article "..." is also available in Acrobat pdf. Author's historical introduction Actual feature article as published Illustrations AUTHOR'S HISTORICAL CONTEXT INTRODUCTION Fritscher The feature article was written in March, 1990, and published in Drummer 139, May 1990 REMEMBRANCE OF SLEAZE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE Alternatives to the Queer Theory of Vanillarinas by Jack Fritscher Editorial by Fledermaus [Anthony F. DeBlase, Publisher] When Jack Fritscher suggested we do an issue on “Remembrance of Sleaze Past,” I had the same trepidations I’d felt when planning the spirituality-themed issue (#136), but for obviously different reasons. First, there’s the word itself: Sleaze. Like kinky, like pervert, like SM, it has a connotation of the bad, the disreputable, the objectionable, not only to www.JackFritscher.com HOW TO LEGALLY QUOTE THIS MATERIAL www.JackFritscher.com/Drummer/Research%20Note.html “vanilla” society, but to many Drummer readers as well. But, like these words, sleaze also has an allure, an attraction, even an obsession. Then there was the word past. Both Fritscher and I have strong interest in recording the history of our community and of the individuals within it. And the free- wheeling lifestyles of the 70’s, together with the institutions that facilitated them, are definitely important to document. As the ideas grew and developed, we planned much more than would fit into one issue of Drummer. The West Coast institution, the Catacombs, is covered in this issue. A similar piece on the East Coast variant, the Mine Shaft, is in the works.[Fritscher did the definitive videotapedDRAFT interview with Wally Wallace, founding manager of the Mine Shaft.] And the American Heartland will not be left out, either. But, just as Fritscher’s theme-setting article evolved into more than a look at the past, so did the rest of this issue. ©Jack Just as “Safe Sex” became the watchword for the 80’s, perhaps “Safe Sleaze” will join it as we celebrate our diversity in the 90’s. Sleaze, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. As with SM, I believe that an individual defines it primarily on the basis of his acceptance of the concept. Two men can equally love licking sweaty armpits. One considers it sleaze because he likes the concept of sleaze; the other does not consider it sleaze because he does not like the concept. To the second pit-licker, sleaze is what others do. Then, of course, there are those who enjoy pseudo-sleaze. That is not a put-down. It is possible to play with sleaze just as it is possible to play with slavery, interrogation, torture, and other aspects of (another of those words) kink. And while we can simultaneously regret and fondly remember the days of uninhibited sex in all its flavors, we can also continue to enjoy those variations, in nearly the same range, as long as we keep our wits about us. –Anthony F. DeBlase Jack Fritscher looks at our sleazy past, Fritscher checks out the present, and imagines where we’re going. OUR CHANGING SEX-STYLES HAVE NO MORE MEMORY than the remembrance we give them. Raunch artist Rex is to drawing what Robert Mapplethorpe is to photography. Both epitomize the sleaze slice of the SM leather pie. Both tour through sleaze. Mapplethorpe takes the Concorde. Rex takes the bus. Each, in his rich style, exemplifies the High Art of Sleazy Nights. The rest of us guys, when we were the way we were, wallowed in sleaze through bars, baths, truck stops, and Personal Classifieds. NY ITALIAN RAUNCHBAG Intense, hot, 34, 5-10, 152, 8 inches uncut. Hairy chest, shoulders, back, and butt. Looking for same/similar jock-sniffer into sleaze: sweat, butt holes, rank armpits, spit, snot, puke, licking, sniffing, moustache-chewing, nipple play and J/O, leather, WS, nasty talk. Prefer outdoor scenes with Mutualist Man who prefers natural smells, tastes, and textures of hot manflesh in leather & rubber. Sloppy kisses. Sick talk. Sweaty feet/socks. NYC. 212-555- SLEZ 212-555-SLEZ.” –Classified Personals Ad, 1978 www.JackFritscher.com HOW TO LEGALLY QUOTE THIS MATERIAL www.JackFritscher.com/Drummer/Research%20Note.html The Big Kick in becoming a grownup man always has been putting an end to what we were all raised to be: the best little boys in the whole wide world. Shoot! Why shouldn’t babies grow up to be “cowboys,” leathermen, and fetishists performing High Wire acts center ring without nets? Why buy into “The Peter-Pan Syndrome” when you can become John Rechy’s outlaw Captain Hook? “DON’T LOOK!” Daddy/Mommy said, censoring our boyhood vision, but you had to look. Absolutely! All the stuff that hardens our dicks as adult men is the very stuff our parents pointed out as trash (usually white, hot, and tattooed), or as dirty (body odors, filthly jeans, sweaty hair), or as dangerous (going home with strangers, riding motorcycles, inserting things that “hurt,”) or as private (pissing, dumping, spitting, picking your teeth,DRAFT and enemas). Our own Ozzie and Harriets were, appropriately for them, as straight Breeders, bourgeois. The discreet charm of their bourgeoisie was that they, ironically, were the ones to point out that the local drugstore had men’s adventure mags with Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS,©Jack tying up handsome US servicemen on the cover, right next to athletic little mags like Tomorrow’s Man where muscular young White Trash posed for “artists” wearing no more than a codpiece drawn in with ink over their nakedness. Parents are doomed to point out to their little perverts the very things their little perverts are looking for. Are we just bio/logical expression of their repression, or whu-a-a-t! TOUGH GUYS: ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTION Like baseball legend Pete Rose, the groin-groping baseball hero blackballed for gambling, a man can remain the All-American Boy only so long, unless you attend lots of gay-boy-toy theme parties, Lacoste-umed like Pat Boone. When you leave home, and hit the road, jack, on your own, your Family “DON’T-LOOKS” point the way down the Yellow Brick Detour to the lawless firm of Trash, Sleaze, and Raunch. A male adventurer, coming fromFritscher a DON’T-LOOK background tends to identify with those men pointed out to him, earlier in life, as The Aggressors: TOUGH GUYS. So your life changes, on the road. To survive, and to attract aggressors, because “like usually seeks like” the same way opposites attract (Huh?), you become more like the lowlife you were warned about. In fact, you become the man who terrified your Ozzie and your Harriet. You are a baaaad boy! Tough good ol’ boys, bikers, and blue-collar bears are some of the many masculine variants that have become Cult Lifestyles to express manhood in the Leather culture of the USA. Rites of Passage are often problematic. Our American rituals proclaiming, right or wrong, a boy’s manhood in this country are set in the collective national consciousness. Holden Caulfield knew that to be a man he had to have sex with black whore. Other peculiar turns include driving fast, drinking, joining the military, smoking, drugs, and getting busted. One might wonder why a boy’s innocence can only be lost through being “bad.” “Being Bad” says something about peer-pressure rebellion in a fundamentalist society. Statistics show that almost 70% of American males are arrested at least once in their lives. No wonder Republicans have made a growth industry out of new jails and prisons. Republicans don’t like low-class sleaze, because sleaze gives the finger to their white-bread bourgeois values. www.JackFritscher.com HOW TO LEGALLY QUOTE THIS MATERIAL www.JackFritscher.com/Drummer/Research%20Note.html So what can a sexual non-conformist do? First, he reacts. Then he acts. He takes his personal life with his individual rights into his hands and uses it to express his wild, uncivilized self, trying to get in touch with his animal nature stolen from him by those who want from him nothing more than slavish obedience to their narrow standards of behavior. John Rechy was right. Homosexuals, no matter how politically visible, have always been, and will probably always be, sexual outlaws. The incredible lightness of being gay, by its very nature, makes our vision a parallax view. We’ve been taught the straight angle on life, and we get it. But our off-center sexuality also shows us an alternative, much like Blacks understand white culture that has been crammed down their throats and yet continue,DRAFT from their parallax view of race, to sing the blues and demand their right to be themselves. So, like Paul Simon, we leave “our little towns and all the crap we learned in high school.” Like all immigrants, we cluster for strength and identity in groups in cities. For the©Jack truly perversatile adventurer, eager to experience all the DON’T-LOOKS and the DO’S and DON’T’S (like “Don’t you ever let me catching you tying Tommy up again or I’ll spank your butt!), all roads lead to Rome, New York, San Francisco, LA, Berlin... Big Cities, where the Prodigal Son always goes, are the place where, when you go there, you get to become yourself. I WANNA BE DIRTY! 70’S CREATURE OF THE NIGHT Ozzie and Harriet had two other kids besides David and Ricky.
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