Stonewall

“‘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.