If you're anythg like , you often wonr what magaz have the gayt rearships. Thankfully, Fairchild's DNR got hold of the rearch this week, and told . (On Monday. None of you saw this and uld pass on before now? J, people.)
Contents:
- IT ALL STARTED HERE: THE GAY LEGACY OF GQ
- STUDY: 'GQ' IS THE GAYT MAGAZE EVER
- TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
IT ALL STARTED HERE: THE GAY LEGACY OF GQ
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. * gq gay magazine *
) It was also, not to put too fe a pot on , a much gayer era 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.
STUDY: 'GQ' IS THE GAYT MAGAZE EVER
LGBTQ news, says, and featur verg gay, transgenr, and queer culture right now. * gq gay magazine *
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.
TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY
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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.
Poet Saeed Jon ed to nsir himself a longtime fan of the edian. But Chappelle’s new Netflix special “The Closer,” which fixat on gay and trans people, feels like a stab the back. * gq gay magazine *
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 . ”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. as they splashed and guffawed—didn’t necsarily mean that was y time as soon as the shoot a sense, Coulianos’s and Sterz’s artistic outlooks reprented two different rpons to beg gay at a time when Ameri wasn’t very gay-iendly.