Jack Fritscher

Stonewall 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.