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ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG
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About XY, US’s #1 Gay Mens Prt Mag.
XY is Ameri’s largt prt gay mens magaze—still by Peter and the origal staff!
BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! LNCH QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZE
OUT f and articulat the ntributn of gay men and women to the culture through a provotive blend of fashn, pop culture, and journalism, spirg rears to nsir the ever-evolvg meang of gay. * gay magazine 18 *
Wh lns of pi sold, XY has been THE sential glossy magaze for young gay men sce 1996. After buildg a fanbase for the sumptuo queer and gay photography books and onle prence they've built unr the BOYS! "You may ask why do we need a platform and magaze for queer and gay photography?
"The simple answer is that queer and gay photography is grossly unrreprented the fe art world, and even more so the mastream media. Is phg back agast this and attemptg to make mastream and showsg queer and gay photography the ntext of fe art photography. "The pocket-size magaze by, for and about homosexuals, " was found the Netherlands 2001 by Gert Jonkers and Jep van Beenekom.
Though no longer makg new ntent prt or onle, the "famo pk perdil" mak sure you're 18 before enterg s webse -- which is jt as famoly featured photography and terviews wh renowned gay artists, such as German fashn signer Bernhard Willhelm, whose nu portras -- taken by Wolfgang Tillmans -- appeared the magaze's first issue May 2001. Sce then, BUTT has featured gay artists such as Casey Spooner, Michael Stipe, John Waters, Hez Peter Kn, Edmund Whe, Terence Koh, Walter Pfeiffer, and Slava 's athetic was memorable for the way sexualized men you'd fd on the street or subway; they had body hair, teeth that weren't perfect, even pnch. Though short-lived, Outweek prented a bold, unapologetic voice that was unaaid to ll out Ameri's dismissive attu towards AIDS and homophobia.
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He teamed up wh fellow ACT UP member Kendall Morrison, who was lookg for an avenue to advertise for his gay phone sex bs.
It's "GossipWatch" lumns railed agast closeted public figur like David Geffen, Mallm Forb, and Liz Smh for beg plic the silence surroundg AIDS and gay rights. When he joed Long Island's Newsday, Rotello beme the first openly gay lumnist for a major newspaper and now works as a documentary producer-director.
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Even though other LGBT magaz at the time knew that sex sells - and ed that to their advantage - HERO Magaze steered clear of pornography and other sexual s foundg 1997, HERO Magaze ma mov that were clive and progrsive, as was more acceptg of upl and men over 40 than other gay publitns at the time. It also ran the first tomotive lumn a natnal gay magaze and ma a hab of turng away advertisg om both tobac and adult pani.
Out Magaze vers the latt and bt fashn, news, entertament, and gay liftyle issu of trendg tert the growg LGBT muny. * gay magazine 18 *
The magaze was regnized for s efforts when beme the first gay magaze to be "highly remend" by Library Journal. XY, named for the batn of male chromosom, is a magaze that gradually beme more and more strongly aimed at gay youth, bee edors wnsed that kids beme g out as gay younger. XY says that is "known bt for s origal photography, brazenly hont mentary on polics and culture, review of film, mic and lerature, rear ntributns, advice on survivg young and gay, and a rather dark sense of humor.
" Michael Glatze - the man who clared he was no longer gay and took a sharp turn toward nservatism and Christiany while opposg gay rights - was a longtime managg edor before the publitn ially filed for bankptcy 2010. Men was a gay porn magaze that did more than jt gay porn.
There's nothg like a good gay photo. You n hardly turn around a gallery whout bumpg to a photo that was eher snapped by a queer person or one for a subject: om Calyn Jenner's portra by Annie Leibovz to the provotive works of Robert Mapplethorpe to the geni of Andy Warhol, Cathere Opie, and Pierre and Gill. Maybe there's somethg queer about the photograph, the transformatn om a subject to an object a flash. Or maybe all our years of takg selfi for Grdr prepared for the job. In any se, what mak the gay photo gay is the look levels at the viewer: We are ed to beg seen, but now we n look back. * gay magazine 18 *
Men -- which was origally named Advote Men until 1997, sce was a sister publitn of The Advote -- drew an dience by feature popular male mols like Zeb Atlas and Mark Dalton, among 2009, the publishers of the Los Angel-based magaze, Specialy Publitns, announced was movg all s gay porn magaze to an onle platform, lled, you'll e up unlucky if you try to accs the webse now; and no new issu of Men have seen the light of day sce.
Blueboy - origally wrten as Blue Boy -- reigned as the gay equivalent of Playboy of the tail end of the 20th-century. The first issue of Blueboy featured ver art that parodied the om beg a hot source for gay porn the '70s and '80s, Blueboy doubled as a liftyle magaze that featured articl on everythg om love advice to TV and movie reviews to fashn.
However, as more gay liftyle magaz emerged the early 1990s, such as Out, MetroSource, and Genre, beme more and more difficult to pete and differentiate self.