June is LGBT Pri Month, and one Black gay uple is on a missn to add a ltle lor to LGBT reprentatn prt magaz.
Contents:
- FOR A DE, CLIK MAGAZE ROSE TO BLACK GAY PROMENCE. SO WHY DID IT END?
- ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG
FOR A DE, CLIK MAGAZE ROSE TO BLACK GAY PROMENCE. SO WHY DID IT END?
It might seem surprisg that such an enavor would beg prt, and ed, Med Magaze, another newer publitn aimed at black gay men, is onle-only.
But a few other high-productn, high-ncept queer men's prt magaz have buted the last few years, like Gayletter and Cakeboy. Although all three take a more tersectnal approach than most old-guard gay men's mags, The Tenth is the only one explicly by and for people of lor.
'" Gayletter's Abiezer Benez relled siar experienc when he worked as art director at Uptown, a black women's magaze.
ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG
So far, for The Tenth, the one exceptn has been the gay-iendly hospaly brand Ace Hotel, whose Los Angel venue hosted the January lnch event for the new issue. SWERV Magaze is a natnal liftyle perdil, celebratg the culture and muny of Ain Amerin Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) people throughout the USA. Before the digal explosn of Black gay blogs and social media the mid-2000s, CLIK, a glossy full-lor monthly magaze created specifilly for the Black gay muny domated as the publitn of choice for a .
Powell tells The Reckong that s early days, there was a perceptn of CLIK solely beg a bar magaze as was wily distributed nightclubs Montrose, Hoton’s gay neighborhood.
Obvly, they were also gay bookstor, which there were so many back then.