Larry Townsend

Larry Townsend

Larry Townsend (27 October 1930 - 29 July 2008) was the pseudonymous author of dozens of books including "Run Little Leather Boy" (1970) and "The Leatherman’s Handbook" (1972) at pioneer erotic presses such as Greenleaf Classics and the Other Traveler imprint of Olympia Press.

Growing up as a teenager of Swiss-German extraction in Los Angeles a few houses from Noel Coward and Irene Dunne, he ate cookies with his neighbor Laura Hope Crews who was Aunt Pittypat in Gone with the Wind. He attended the prestigious Peddie School, and was stationed as Staff Sergeant in charge of NCOIC Operations of Air Intelligence Squadrons for nearly five years with the US Air Force in Germany (1950-1954). Completing his tour of duty, he entered into the 1950s underground of the LA leather scene where he and Montgomery Clift shared a lover. With his degree in industrial psychology from UCLA (1957), he worked in the private sector and as a probation officer with the Forestry Service. He began his pioneering activism in the politics of gay liberation in the early 1960s. In 1972, as president of the ‘Homophile Effort for Legal Protection’ which had been founded in 1969 to defend gays during and after arrests, he led a group in founding the H.E.L.P. Newsletter, the forebear of "Drummer" magazine (1975). As a writer and photographer, he was an essential eyewitness of the drama and salon around "Drummer" in which his novels were often excerpted. His signature “Leather Notebook” column appeared in "Drummer" for twelve years beginning in 1980, and continued in "Honcho" to Spring 2008. His last novel, [http://ltpublications.com/timemasters.html "TimeMasters"] , was published April 2008. His last writing was [http://jackfritscher.com/PDF/Drummer/Vol%201/11_Intro%20Townsend_Mar2008_PWeb.pdf "Who Lit up the Lit of the Golden Age of Drummer"] an introduction to [http://jackfritscher.com/Drummer/Eyewitness%20Drummer/EyewitnessVol1.html "Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer"] (June 2008).

His partner of 44 years, Fred Yerkes, passed on July 8, 2006.

External links

* [http://ltpublications.com/ LT Publications]
* [http://jackfritscher.com/PDF/Drummer/Vol%201/11_Intro%20Townsend_Mar2008_PWeb.pdf Who Lit up the "Lit" of the Golden Age of "Drummer"]
* [http://jackfritscher.com/PDF/Drummer/Vol%201/18_LtrHandbk_Mar2008_PWeb.pdf Leather "Dolce Vita", Pop Culture, & the Prime of Mr. Larry Townsend]

ources

* [http://www.LTPublications.com LT Publications]
* [http://jackfritscher.com/Drummer/ReflectingDrummer.html Drummer Archives]
* [http://www.jackfritsscher.com Jack Fritscher]


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