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Got something to say, man?‘ 3 FUN IN YOUR FAVORITE BAR

ON A QUIET SUNDAY AFTERNOON "Tightropes at the Officer'sClub" is the vehicle for this footloose look at bartenders andbondage

16 DRUMMER DADDIESAll you orphans get in line, ‘cause the Drummer Adoption Agencyhas a strict father just waiting to take you home!

18 DELIVERYC.D. Arnold's controversial new play about a young man who asksfor the ultimate fantasy

25 THE LEATl'lERMAN'S HANDBOOK IllAn exclusive excerpt from Larry Townsend's new version of hisclassic book on S&M

40 DRUMSTICKSSilly shit for twisted funnybones

41 RAW GRAPHICS PORTFOLIO 8r POSTEROr, how Gunner got his name

58 DRUMBEATSThere are more hot men in these pages than in a crowded leatherbar on Saturday night. . . take your pick

65 DRUMBill Ward's prototype sheds his leather, but not his balls as Drumgoes to the opera

70 DRUMMEDIAWerner Rainer Fassbinder's Lola and Christopher Larkin's DivineAndrogyne highlight this months look at new films and books

75 CONRAP Drummer's guide to prisonpolitics78 TOUGH CUSTOMERS

Got an itch? These ggys can and will scratch it. . .

81 TOUGH SI-IITThe news you won't read in The Times

83 LEATHER BULLETIN BOARD Drummer's roundup of black leatherevents

84 LONDON LEATHERBryan Derbyshire fills you in on hot stuff in the U.K.

86 IN PASSINGHarry Bush on the Daddy syndrome. . .

Cover and page four photos: Blonde beef on a bike, Raw Graphicsexposes ace road warrior Gunner; photos by Iim Wigler.

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this co|umn,0n our pa es abouttheGayOlympics, being completed in San Fran-cisco as of this writing. But we can reportthat the games have been a triumph,probably far exceeedin the expecta-tions ol the founders. The unex ectedgood-bad luck of having the homo-phobic U.S. Olympic Committee sue toprevent the use of the "Olympic" namemade news coverage all over the worldin papers that probably would haveotherwise ignored the happening. Itwould seem it is alri ht for everyoneelse to use the name "Olympics" exceptgays. But there are four ears to kick thataround in the courts before the nextone.

However, the pagentry we saw andphotographed for Manifest, the athletesrom a lover the country and the world,

the crowds of gays who came with themand to see them. are a beautiful storywell worth telling and remembering.

Our gay leaders were there, represen-tatives orm the political world, celebri-ties, and a few for-real Olympic athletes.The weather was magnificent mostly,the San Francisco sky has been filledwith flags, thousands of balloons,rocked with music and crowd noises,and the City was filled, as usual, withpeople from somewhere else.

Our congratulations to the many whoworked hard and long to make thisunusual Olympiad the success it was andwill continue to be, whatever they endup calling it.

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