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HOMOSEXUALY, GAY FOR PAY, ETC.
When Weir h the scene the 1950s and 60s, so-lled “physique magaz” were the clost thg to gay porn you uld fd. There were even allegatns Weir “pimped” his athlet to closeted gay men—but was all very “don’t ask, don’t tell.
Bodybuilr Bob Paris claimed that Weir was fur he had e out as gay, rather than stay the weight-room closet: “The powers that be want so badly to overe the myth that all bodybuilrs are gay, prumg that’s a negative thg, ” Paris said an terview 1998. Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #entertament #gayforpay #obuari stori and more. Asi om his expertise nutrn and early supplementatn, he also created Tomorrow's Man, a physique magaze aimed at the gay male dience.
Was he tryg to pture a part of the gay market and pete wh Johnson? Did he have a homosexual orientatn, or would he jt stop at nothg to make money, any market?
GETTG MANLY AND “LIVG THE GAY LIFE” WH AMERICAN MANHOOD MAGAZE
The dtry is saturated s peripherals wh homosexuals. Even Dan Lurie said back the '40s that all the photographers he knew were gay.
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It bed elements of a bodybuilr magaze, a men’s adventure mag and a gay-oriented male p-up mag. They even published a few vtage male mol mags that appealed primarily to gay men.