1. John Joseph "Jack" Fritscher was born on June 20,1939 and is an American author, university professor, historian, and social activist known internationally for his fiction, erotica, and nonfiction analyses of pop culture and gay male culture.
19 Facts About Jack Fritscher
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In 1953 at age 14, Jack Fritscher attended the Pontifical College Josephinum, for both high school and college, studying Latin and Greek.
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Jack Fritscher earned a degree in philosophy in 1961, followed by graduate work in theology and the Scholasticism of Thomas Aquinas.
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Jack Fritscher was schooled by Jesuits in the Humanism of Marsilio Ficino, Erasmus, and Jacques Maritain.
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Jack Fritscher was ordained by the Apostolic Delegate to the orders of porter, lector, exorcist, and acolyte.
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In 1961 Jack Fritscher arrived in San Francisco and established a base there.
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In San Francisco in between academic posts, Jack Fritscher used his academic credentials and publishing career in the Catholic press to find jobs as an editorial writer for KGO-ABC TV, as a technical writer for the San Francisco Muni Metro, and as manager of marketing at Kaiser Engineers, Inc.
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Jack Fritscher authored the first book to investigate gay Wicca and witchcraft, Popular Witchcraft Straight from the Witch's Mouth.
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Jack Fritscher's academic writing has been published in the Bucknell Review, Modern Drama, Journal of Popular Culture, Censorship: A World Encyclopedia, and Playbill.
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Jack Fritscher has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and on BBC Channel 4 with Camille Paglia.
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Jack Fritscher entered post-Stonewall gay publishing as founding San Francisco editor-in-chief of Drummer, San Francisco's longest-running magazine.
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Jack Fritscher was one of only two editors-in-chief in Drummer history.
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Jack Fritscher was the magazine's most frequent contributor as editor, writer, and photographer through all three publishers, emerging as historian of the institutional memory of Drummer.
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Jack Fritscher contributed to the start-up of dozens of other emerging gay magazines as well as booking anthologies for new publishers such as Gay Sunshine Press and Bowling Green University Press.
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Together with producer Mark Hemry, Jack Fritscher co-founded the pioneering Palm Drive Video in 1984, dedicated to homomasculine entertainment.
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Jack Fritscher wrote, cast, and directed more than 150 fetish features for Palm Drive Video.
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Jack Fritscher was a frequent historical journalist for the Bay Area Reporter and Leather Times.
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Jack Fritscher is married to Mark Hemry, founding owner of Palm Drive Publishing.
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Jack Fritscher was portrayed by actor Anthony Michael Lopez in the 2018 biopic Mapplethorpe.