John Fritscher

John Joseph 'Jack' Fritscher is an American author, university professor, historian, and social activist known for his fiction, erotica, and non-fiction on gay male culture and popular culture. He served as the founding San Francisco editor-in-chief of the leathersex magazine Drummer, coined the term 'homomasculinity' in 1979, and has authored twenty books including novels set during the AIDS and Covid epidemics. A pre-Stonewall writer educated in the Irish-Catholic tradition, he earned a PhD in literature from Loyola University of Chicago in 1967 with a dissertation on Tennessee Williams.[1][2][4]