How an unknown former mol turned photographer, a gay art director, and a llegiate water polo player om California ed the pag of GQ to refe the Amerin man—and changed forever the look of magaz, photography, and advertisg.
Contents:
- IS FORMER PHOTOGRAPHER OF ABERCROMBIE & FCH BCE WEBER GAY?
- IT ALL STARTED HERE: THE GAY LEGACY OF GQ
- A GAY ACTOR'S TEMPTATN TO KEEP GOOD HEALTH THE CLOSET
IS FORMER PHOTOGRAPHER OF ABERCROMBIE & FCH BCE WEBER GAY?
So what’s really happeng is that the guys are ggg whether you’re open or shy or close-md or, que ankly, whether you’re gay or hetero and willg eher to flirt wh them or to subm to an advance.
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IT ALL STARTED HERE: THE GAY LEGACY OF GQ
Jack Haber, the magaze’s edor--chief om 1969 to 1983, was a gay man, as were his two extraordary art directors, Harry Coulianos, who served om 1971 to 1980, and Donald Sterz, who started out as one of Coulianos’s puti and eventually succeed him, nng the partment until late was not explicly a gay magaze, and s mandate, fact, was to te men of all persuasns about fashn and style. But the gay sensibily was unmistakable: the recurrence of the word gged headl; the prcient tert mimalist home r; the “Every Night Fever” dis-stomp pictorial om 1978, wh mols Capezs dancg a parkg lot illumated by the headlights of Lln the magaze self was no joke; GQ took s mandate serly. In this regard, GQ was way out ont, an archetypal example of the gay mory blazg a trail for the schlumpy mastream.
“He had a theory that any hotel, there was a gay person [on staff], and that gay person was a nnectn to where to go the cy. So the first thg Harry did when he walked to a hotel was fd that gay person.
A GAY ACTOR'S TEMPTATN TO KEEP GOOD HEALTH THE CLOSET
In 1977, Michael Iv was a blond, tole-haired English major at Yale who rowed crew and stood six feet two, spendg the summer between his hman and sophomore years patg ho on Martha’s Veyard. ” Aquilon and Iv were soon gods the fashn firmament—hetero llege boys who’d stumbled to stardom as gay ins.
In this perd, GQ took on a social signifince that s creators uld not have anticipated—as a “d lifele to so many of the hterlands, ” as the Mississippiborn gay memoirist Kev Ssums puts . “I’m almost posive the profsor was gay, ” Iv says. ”Yet for all the homoerotic quali of the Weber-Sterz llaboratns, for all the male sk they showed, they somehow had more crossover appeal than the shoots that Coulianos oversaw.