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DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ

The gay men's magaz QQ and Ciao! were unabashedly liberated, but they still tered to an exclive dience. * gay magazine 80s *

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. 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.

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* gay magazine 80s *

“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. "The pocket-size magaze by, for and about homosexuals, " was found the Netherlands 2001 by Gert Jonkers and Jep van Beenekom.

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