DRUMMER Issue 231: Takedown

DRUMMER Issue 231: Takedown celebrates the complicated, competitive, and often deeply personal relationship between queer identity and sports culture. From team rivalries and locker-room dynamics to individual journeys of self-acceptance, this edition explores athletics through a distinctly gay lens.

Across photography, fiction, artwork, and editorial features, Locker Room examines the role sports have played in shaping masculinity, friendship, desire, and belonging. From wrestling mats and hockey rinks to soccer fields and beyond, this issue highlights the connections, tensions, and camaraderie found throughout athletic culture.

This edition also features new work from Leo Herrera, the conclusion of Jack Allen's serial story Chad's First Day, photography by Spanish artist Abuser, and an eclectic collection of stories and visual features that continue DRUMMER's tradition of documenting leather, fetish, and queer culture.

What Sets It Apart

• Explores sports culture from a queer perspective
• Features photography, fiction, artwork, and editorial content
• Includes wrestling, hockey, soccer, basketball, and other athletic themes
• Features work from Leo Herrera and photographer Abuser
• Includes the conclusion of Chad's First Day by Jack Allen
• Part of the legendary DRUMMER magazine series

About DRUMMER

Originally launched in Los Angeles in 1975, DRUMMER became the most influential American leather magazine of its era. The publication featured contributions from renowned artists and writers including Tom of Finland, Rex, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Samuel Steward. Today, DRUMMER continues to honor its history while showcasing the future of leather, fetish, and queer culture.