Disverg the "Gay Liftyle" through 1970s Magaz - JSTOR Daily

Contents:

• ONE: THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE THE UNED STAT
• THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
• IN THE EARLY 1950S, U.S. FEDS TRIED TO KILL THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE
• ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG
• NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
• DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ

ONE: THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE THE UNED STAT

The followg year Dwight Eisenhower issued Executive Orr 10450, which said gays and lbians were perverts, crimals, mentally ill, and mt be blocked om any kd of feral employment. Come 1953, however, the Post Office oze an issue about homosexual marriage for three weeks before officials Washgton, D. A good example n be found le #5, which said ONE wouldn’t prt “scriptns of homosexualy as a practice which the thor enurag others, or wax too enthiastic about.

’s “strategy for silencg the homophile movement by prosecutg as a purveyor of smut. It’s stunng, now, to have a rource that so plaly documents the spiral and promise of a long fight, down to advertisements om gay European magaz and hts at genue tersectnal support, for example the ocsnal appearance of Marv Edwards, a Black acuntant who was the lover of ONE -founr W. (Both were nnected to Knights of the Clock, a social club open to Black and whe cis gay men.

THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE

While some see this se as the first time homosexualy was ever addrsed at that level of the urts, others say wasn’t a civil rights victory, jt a loophole built so people uld keep readg porn.

On the first page of ONE’s first anniversary issue, which is also the first edn available through JSTOR, the magaze stated that “ONE do not claim that homosexuals are better or worse than anyone else, that they are special any but one sense. ” This one sense, which ONE is “voted to rrectg” through “scientific, historil, and cril pots of view, ” is that gay people are not cizens. On the whole, ONE do actively work to be tersectnal, but bee s thors were largely whe and middle-class, spe the obv prejudic gay Amerins faced durg the tim particular, there are still some tone-af moments.

A 1965 profile of “an Amerin Indian homosexual named Elmer Gage” go to Elmer Colorado, publish signifint oral histori, and is aware of s otherns, and a 1959 “Report om New York” si-ey Jack Kerouac’s “rather sperate ncern” over his masculy, but that same article also lls Frank O’Hara “disappotgly stologil, ” and do not stop. Due to the foc on cizenship, ONE featur pecially extensive articl and se studi ncerng marriage and war, pecially the draft and police, who are lled “the new Nazis” a 1963 issue that also celebrated the 1957 Wolfenn Report, which stated that “homosexualy nnot legimately be regard as disease, bee many s is the only symptom. Kearful also criciz homosexuals for not fightg back, and says “the Negro has won civil rights the last few years” [sic on all unts], “not bee the Uned Stat Government is eedom-lovg and benevolent (which is not) but bee through agatn, sacrifice, and anized effort, Negro have forced society to regnize them and give them their rights.

IN THE EARLY 1950S, U.S. FEDS TRIED TO KILL THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE

” He then tak a plited step backwards, statg that bee “the Homophile Movement reprents another sort of revolt, ” “such eptns” will “never be necsary, ” as many magaz now “eely publish homophile views, ” and the wave of social change unrway assum “no Watts explosns are gog to be need, or likely to occur. His notn of gayns was rmed by a “Co of Behavr” that he rerd his high-school diary: “More mascule at all tim. ” Among his mols were the gay and the straight, profsnal bodybuilrs and profsnal beach bums, llege stunts and returne om the European ont.

But there’s jt as much reason to nsir Mizer the gay Hugh Hefner—a tirels llector of physil specimens. In 1951, he found what is generally nsired the untry’s origal gay magaze, Physique Pictorial, and would ntue publishg for nearly four s**. ** In the magaze’s early years he clud no explic referenc to gay inty, though he thored d edorials agast the hypocrisi of the straight world.

Although gays had long been si-eyeg the emblems of straight masculy, Mizer fed them wh new meang: the very men who had looked stoic and impassive the straight magaz seemed, unr Mizer’s directn, to be havg fun. When David Hurl, the gay pornographer and Mizer protégé, was a teen-ager Ccnati, he glimpsed Physique Pictorial_ _at a newsstand and felt, as he put to Taschen, “stantly clud, as if the men were beckong him to look.

ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG

” It appealed, Coat wrote, “to the sick half-world of homosexuals, sadists, and masochists. “Homosexualy was the standard way of life among the gged Greek warrrs, ” he wrote 1960. ” Dpe such objectns, he reportedly ma a fortune the eighti by distributg so-lled “ssn vios, ” rerdgs of photo shoots that then veered to more recreatnal Mizer’s Greek-warrr fixatn, ’s temptg to thk of him as one early source of the “body fascism” for which ntemporary gay-male culture is often maligned.

Mizer’s achievement, as a photographer and a publisher, was to take the standards of male bety as they existed and prove that gay men uld satisfy them, and be satisfied by them, too. Was formed, an offshoot of the Mattache Society — an early activist group prised of gay men.

Early issu tackled such topics as “Homosexual Rights, ” “Are Homosexuals Nrotic?, ” “Homophile Moraly, ” “The Marg of Masculy, ” “A Tribute to Dr. It’d be many s before gay or queer people uld safely ngregate public, even major ci.

NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’

“Never before has a ernmental agency of this size admted that homosexuals not only have legal rights but might have rpectable motiv as well, ” read the ver of the October 1953 issue. As we s around quietly like nice ltle ladi and gentlemen gradually tg the public and the urts at our leisure, thoands of homosexuals are beg unjtly arrted, blackmailed, fed, jailed, timidated, beaten, ed and murred.

“The suggtn advanced that homosexuals should be regnized as a segment of our people and be acrd special privilege as a class is rejected, ” wrote a feral judge 1956. For the first time Amerin publishg history, a cisn bdg on every urt now stands … affirmg effect that is no way proper to scribe a love affair between two homosexuals as nstutg obsceny. "The pocket-size magaze by, for and about homosexuals, " was found the Netherlands 2001 by Gert Jonkers and Jep van Beenekom.

Though no longer makg new ntent prt or onle, the "famo pk perdil" mak sure you're 18 before enterg s webse -- which is jt as famoly featured photography and terviews wh renowned gay artists, such as German fashn signer Bernhard Willhelm, whose nu portras -- taken by Wolfgang Tillmans -- appeared the magaze's first issue May 2001. Sce then, BUTT has featured gay artists such as Casey Spooner, Michael Stipe, John Waters, Hez Peter Kn, Edmund Whe, Terence Koh, Walter Pfeiffer, and Slava 's athetic was memorable for the way sexualized men you'd fd on the street or subway; they had body hair, teeth that weren't perfect, even pnch. Though short-lived, Outweek prented a bold, unapologetic voice that was unaaid to ll out Ameri's dismissive attu towards AIDS and homophobia.

DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ

He teamed up wh fellow ACT UP member Kendall Morrison, who was lookg for an avenue to advertise for his gay phone sex bs. It's "GossipWatch" lumns railed agast closeted public figur like David Geffen, Mallm Forb, and Liz Smh for beg plic the silence surroundg AIDS and gay rights.

When he joed Long Island's Newsday, Rotello beme the first openly gay lumnist for a major newspaper and now works as a documentary producer-director. Even though other LGBT magaz at the time knew that sex sells - and ed that to their advantage - HERO Magaze steered clear of pornography and other sexual s foundg 1997, HERO Magaze ma mov that were clive and progrsive, as was more acceptg of upl and men over 40 than other gay publitns at the time.

It also ran the first tomotive lumn a natnal gay magaze and ma a hab of turng away advertisg om both tobac and adult pani.