The gay men's magaz QQ and Ciao! were unabashedly liberated, but they still tered to an exclive dience.
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DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
* 1970s gay magazines *
Today, we remember the creasgly outspoken polil movement for gay and lbian rights. Lnched the sprg of 1969 wh the slogan “For Gay Guys Who Have No Hangups, ” QQ was a glossy nsumer magaze. ” But unlike gay liberatn magaz and newspapers of the time, voted ltle space to polics or activism.
VTAGE GAY MAGAZ, INCLUDG ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
Hilrbrand wr that gay travel guis were not a wholly new ia. In the 1950s and ’60s, some gay men turned word-of-mouth scriptns of lol scen to guis nsistg of the nam and addrs of bars, wh d scriptns. “The turn toward liftyle, straight and gay, volved a turn toward nsumptn as a form of self-ventn, yet the gay liftyle media stcted s rearshp not only how to bee ‘themselv, ’ as the straight publitns, but also how to bee gay, ” Hilrbrand wr.
’s photos reflected more racial and ethnic diversy than many other gay publitns of the time, that uld be seen more as a reflectn of fetishizatn than cln. “Although the young studs may do everythg bed, except perhaps kiss, there is still one le a gay mt never fet, ” the thor wr.
Embraced a gay inty, if not necsarily one that was particularly polil.