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Contents:
- IT ALL STARTED HERE: THE GAY LEGACY OF GQ
- TOWLEROAD GAY NEWS
- DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
IT ALL STARTED HERE: THE GAY LEGACY OF GQ
How an unknown former mol turned photographer, a gay art director, and a llegiate water polo player om California ed the pag of GQ to refe the Amerin man—and changed forever the look of magaz, photography, and advertisg. * gay queen magazine *
) It was also, not to put too fe a pot on , a much gayer era of GQ.
Jack Haber, the magaze’s edor--chief om 1969 to 1983, was a gay man, as were his two extraordary art directors, Harry Coulianos, who served om 1971 to 1980, and Donald Sterz, who started out as one of Coulianos’s puti and eventually succeed him, nng the partment until late was not explicly a gay magaze, and s mandate, fact, was to te men of all persuasns about fashn and style. But the gay sensibily was unmistakable: the recurrence of the word gged headl; the prcient tert mimalist home r; the “Every Night Fever” dis-stomp pictorial om 1978, wh mols Capezs dancg a parkg lot illumated by the headlights of Lln the magaze self was no joke; GQ took s mandate serly.
In this regard, GQ was way out ont, an archetypal example of the gay mory blazg a trail for the schlumpy mastream.
TOWLEROAD GAY NEWS
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 queen magazine *
“He had a theory that any hotel, there was a gay person [on staff], and that gay person was a nnectn to where to go the cy.
DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
* gay queen magazine *
So the first thg Harry did when he walked to a hotel was fd that gay person.