Inventing the Gay Gaze: Profiles in Gay Courage Vol 3 by Jack Fritscher

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by Jack Fritscher

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INVENTING THE GAY GAZE

A Memoir of Essays and Interviews

Profiles in Gay Courage Vol 3

Publication Date: Spring 2025

Gay historian Jack Fritscher's newest book,
Inventing the Gay Gaze:
Rex, Peter Berlin, Arthur Tress, and Crawford Barton,
is the third volume of his award-winning series Profiles in Gay Courage.

Gay historian Jack Fritscher's newest book, Inventing the Gay Gaze: Rex, Peter Berlin, Arthur Tress, and Crawford Barton, is the third volume of his award-winning series Profiles in Gay Courage.

Meet the artists talking in this revealing book of lively annotated oral-history interviews. The artist Rex drawing his pictures, and the three photographers, Berlin, Tress, and Barton, speak for themselves about their world-famous art and how they struggled to invent their own authentic queer eye in an age dominated by the politically correct gaze of censors and the influence of their common frenemy Robert Mapplethorpe whose spirit infuses this boundary-breaking book.

Eyewitness Fritscher has known these artists since the 1970s when he, as editor-in-chief of Drummer, first published their pioneering work. In Gay Gaze, he canonizes his iconic friends by presenting their history within the context of general gay history that readers, who enjoy juxtapositions in smart texts, may find to be an informative and entertaining bonus. A fast, accessible, unique, first-person resource for art lovers, researchers, libraries, LGBTQ+ archives, and book groups. 220 pages. Paperback and Kindle.

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INVENTING THE GAY GAZE by Jack Fritscher

Frontis

Chapter 1: Rex Requiem: Corrupt Beyond Innocence Text --- PDF

Chapter 2: Peter Berlin: Afternoon Tea with "The Lion in Winter" Text --- PDF

Chapter 3: Arthur Tress: Tressian Homosurrealism Text --- PDF

Chapter 4: Crawford Barton: San Francisco Photographer of Beautiful Men
Text --- PDF