Daniel Wenger on Bob Mizer, who found the first gay magaze the U.S., Physique Pictorial, and specialized photographg buff young men.
Contents:
- 6 DES OF LGBT MAGAZ, INCLUDG THE ADVOTE AND GAY TIM
- THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
- ONE: THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE THE UNED STAT
- VTAGE GAY MAGAZ, INCLUDG ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
- DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
6 DES OF LGBT MAGAZ, INCLUDG THE ADVOTE AND GAY TIM
* 1950s gay magazines *
This week, ProQut lnched the new LGBT Magaze Archive, a database that clus the backfil of 26 of the most fluential, longt-nng magaz on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and related issu.
Bee The Advote is exceptnal pre-datg the 1969 Stonewall rts, spans the history of the gay liberatn movement.
THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
Browse and buy a vast selectn of Vtage Gay Magaz, Includg Art And Photography Books Books and Collectibl on * 1950s gay magazines *
While Gay News was lnched 1972 and is of great historil value.
ONE: THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE THE UNED STAT
The Pk Paper was the only weekly newspaper voted to gay and lbian terts when was found and beme a highly important mpaigng vehicle.
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.
VTAGE GAY MAGAZ, INCLUDG ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
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.
DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
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.