Abstract. Prt media has played a key role the formatn of queer culture sce 1945. The populary of gay prt magaz the German ntext was based
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GAY ONLINE MAGAZIN GLEICHLAUT ISSUE AUGUST #08/2023
GLEICHLAUT - das Gay Onle Magaz für n schwulen Mann m aktuellen Themen nd um die Communy, Liftyle, Travel, Photography, Fashn & viel mehr. * german gay magazine *
Gay magaz as we know them trace their origs to Germany, specifilly Berl, where a wrer, edor, and photographer named Adolf Brand 1896 found Der Eigene. It was the first kd ever: a magaze dited to "mascule culture, " man-on-man love, and the male Eigene took que a high-md approach to the burgeong homophile movement, peddlg poems, reviews, says, and short stori by leadg German thkers like sexologist Ernst Bchard, photographer Wilhelm von Gloen, pacifist Kurt Hiller anarchist John Henry McKay, all the while makg sure to keep thgs lively wh nu pictur of men beg name "Der Eigene" translat to The Own, a tchphrase lifted om Max Stirner's 1844 work The Ego and Its Own, which Stirner argu that dividuals n and should have plete tonomy all aspects of their liv. He sowed the field that allowed fellow German Otto Bierbm to found Der Insel, another gay magaze, 1899 ( shut 1901) and elsewhere Brand's fluence uld be felt Zurich, where publisher Karl Meier 1932 turned a lbian journal lled The Friendship Journal to Der Kreis ("The Circle") one of the most succsful and fluential gay magaz publishg history.
Der Kreis was the only gay magaze to n durg the Nazi regime and expand s reach beyond the prted page by anizg homophile salons throughout Europe. And Der Kreis, the history of which is chronicled Hubert Kennedy's book The Ial Gay Man, also helped lnch the reer of Karlhez "Jim of Zurich" Weberger, a photographer whose nim-obssn jt as semal the artful nstctn of masculy as Mcl magaze and Bob Kreis and Der Eigene served as a template for the 1952 lnch of Stat' very own One Inc.
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While Der Kreis shuttered 1967 and One wouldn't make to the 1970s, both broke down barriers that created a gay magaze market, and neher uld have done whout Der means of urse that those of who enjoy gay magaz owe a big thanks to a German man named some vers om Der Eigene.
The world's first fe art photography magaze dited to queer and gay photography - ad eeVolume 1 featur ten photographers om ten untri: Alex Avgud (Rsia), Domeni Cennamo (Italy), Michael Epps (USA), Serge Le Hidalgo (Spa), Maths Katayama (Brazil), Krzysztof Marchlak (Poland), Pl McDonald (UK), Niv Shank (Israel), Michael Sønrgaard (Denmark), and Tyler Udall (Canada).