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Partner. Robert Mapplethorpe. David Sparrow. Website. jackfritscher .com. John Joseph "Jack" Fritscher (born June 20, 1939) is an American author, [1] university professor, historian, and social activist known internationally for his fiction, erotica, and nonfiction analyses of pop culture and gay male culture.
Jack Fritscher relives his love affair with Robert Mapplethorpe – the hustler with a Hasselblad whose sexually explosive photographs thrilled and horrified America. ‘I want to see the devil in us all’ ... a 1980 self-portrait. All photographs: courtesy of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Jack Fritscher. Wed 9 Mar 2016 11.36 EST.
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Jack Fritscher, Ph.D. Specialist in American Literature, American Pop Culture, and Gay Pop Culture. Celebrating 65+ Years as a Published. Novelist, Journalist, Photographer, Videographer, Tenured University Professor, Arts Critic, Historian, and Award-Winning Writer.
Mar 17, 2016 · The photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and his lover, the writer and publisher Jack Fritscher, each had a well-developed sense of what good and evil might be. Both men were raised as Catholics, in an age when homosexual sex was both a mortal sin in the eyes of the church and a criminal act in much of the United States.
Just as F. Scott Fitzgerald immortalized the Roaring '20s, Jack Fritscher captures the essence of the tumultuous '70s. Against a backdrop of riotous pop culture and gay life in America, this uncensored memoir offers a candid view of Robert Mapplethorpe who died of AIDS at age 42.
Jack Fritscher. Palm Drive Publishing, 2010 - 498 pages. Some Dance to Remember has been reviewed as ¿the gay Gone with the Wind.¿. But such popular praise does not do literary justice to this eyewitness classic of that ¿first golden decade after Stonewall.¿.
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."
