Drummer Boy, 1978.

Lithographic poster on cream paper.

Titled, signed, and dated in plate on the bottom right, "Drummer Boy; ZACH 1978"

17 x 13 7/8 in. (43 x 35.2 cm.)

Notes:

Zach produced regular erotic illustrations for Drummer, the leading publication of its time serving gay leather and S/M subcultures in the USA. He professionally exhibited at the Eons Gallery in Los Angeles alongside the likes of Tom Hinde, Tom of Finland, Go Mishima, and other key players on the gay fetish art scene. According to the historian Jack Fritscher, much like Robert Opel’s Fey-Wey Gallery in San Francisco and Lou Weingarden’s Stompers in New York, Eons was one of the “pioneering galleries for queer art in the 1970s.” [1] At present, little is known of the exact identity of the artist Zach who presumably operated under a pseudonym. His commitment to molding a gay leather visual culture nevertheless parallels his co-exhibitors at the Eons Gallery.

Many of Zach's illustrations from the late 1970s and early 1980s were collected by enthusiasts and reproduced as popular posters. Zach’s posters for venues like the Swap Meet, a popular gay sex club in Los Angeles, and the Catacombs, a  S/M leather fisting club in San Francisco, further cemented his role in shaping the visual identity of the gay leather scene on the West Coast. 

[1] [4] Jack Fritscher, Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer: A Memoir of the Sex, Art, Salon, Pop Culture War, and Gay History of Drummer Magazine from the Titanic 1970s to 1999 (San Francisco: Palm Drive Publications, 2008), p. 315.

Minor creasing, some graphite residue on the bottom right margin.

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