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.
Contents:
- IT ALL STARTED HERE: THE GAY LEGACY OF GQ
- ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG
- THE NATNAL MAGAZE ABOUT MENMA L.A. 2020:A VERSNTHE HUNTGTON LIBRARY, ART MM, AND BOTANIL GARN PARTNERSHIP WH THE HAMMER MMPHOTO: JOSHUA WHEPRE-ORR 50TH ANNIVERSARYA MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER2024 MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF BLUEBOY® — THE FIRST NATNALLY AND TERNATNALLY DISTRIBUTED GAY MEN'S MAGAZE!DUE TO ISSU STEMMG OM THE PANMIC, OUR RELNCH WAS LAYED SEVERAL TIM AS A RULT OF FACTORS THAT WERE OUTSI OF OUR NTROL. THIS AFFECTED OUR 2022 PUBLITN DATE AND OUR ABILY TO HAVE THE HANDS OF OUR CTOMERS 2023. I APPRECIATE YOUR NTUED SUPPORT ALONG THIS JOURNEY — AND EXCED TO ANNOUNCE THAT BLUEBOY® CELEBRAT S 50TH ANNIVERSARY WH A GOLN MEMORATIVE ISSUE AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2024.A PORTN OF THE PROCEEDS BENEFS THE BLUEBOY® ARCHIV & CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATN — AN LGBTQ+ 501 (C)(3) TAX-EXEMPT NONPROF ANIZATN MTED TO THE PRERVATN AND PROMOTN OF BLUEBOY® ARCHIV FOR HISTORIL, TNAL, AND REARCH PURPOS.THE BLUEBOY® GOLDEN 50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE FEATUR EDORIALS, ARTWORK, FASHN LAYOUTS, SHORT STORI, TERVIEWS, VTAGE BLUEBOY® ARCHIVAL NTENT, AND A MALE NU PICTORIAL — REFLECTG UPON OUR RICH LEGACY AND RONATG THE 'GOLN ERA' OF GAY LIFE DURG THE 1970S.EACH BLUEBOY® GOLDEN 50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE IS A NUMBERED PY A LIMED EDN OF 2,024 PI. ONCE THIS EDN IS SOLD OUT, WE WILL PLACE THE ORIGAL WORK PY TO THE BACAF ARCHIV. ONLE VERSNS OF THE MAGAZE WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE. WE MA THIS CISN ORR TO EVOKE THE NOSTALGIC THRILL OF WHAT WAS ONCE LIKE GOG TO THE NEWSSTAND AND PURCHASG THE THE LATT PY.ALL CTOMERS WHO HAVE ACTIVE PRE-ORRS WILL RECEIVE A BETIFUL PY OF THE BLUEBOY® GOLDEN 50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE.YOUR ORR OF OUR INIC MAGAZE SERV AS A MMENT TO SUPPORTG THE ONGOG WORK OF BLUEBOY® ARCHIV & CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATN.LOVE AND APPRECIATN,MISS TIGERBLUEBOY®PUBLISHER AND EDOR--CHIEFFOUNR | BLUEBOY ARCHIV & CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATNBLUEBOY® ARCHIV & CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATNBAF
IT ALL STARTED HERE: THE GAY LEGACY OF GQ
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) 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.
ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG
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. “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. So the first thg Harry did when he walked to a hotel was fd that gay person.
In 1977, Michael Iv was a blond, tole-haired English major at Yale who rowed crew and stood six feet two, spendg the summer between his hman and sophomore years patg ho on Martha’s Veyard. ” Aquilon and Iv were soon gods the fashn firmament—hetero llege boys who’d stumbled to stardom as gay ins.
THE NATNAL MAGAZE ABOUT MENMA L.A. 2020:A VERSNTHE HUNTGTON LIBRARY, ART MM, AND BOTANIL GARN PARTNERSHIP WH THE HAMMER MMPHOTO: JOSHUA WHEPRE-ORR 50TH ANNIVERSARYA MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER2024 MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF BLUEBOY® — THE FIRST NATNALLY AND TERNATNALLY DISTRIBUTED GAY MEN'S MAGAZE!DUE TO ISSU STEMMG OM THE PANMIC, OUR RELNCH WAS LAYED SEVERAL TIM AS A RULT OF FACTORS THAT WERE OUTSI OF OUR NTROL. THIS AFFECTED OUR 2022 PUBLITN DATE AND OUR ABILY TO HAVE THE HANDS OF OUR CTOMERS 2023. I APPRECIATE YOUR NTUED SUPPORT ALONG THIS JOURNEY — AND EXCED TO ANNOUNCE THAT BLUEBOY® CELEBRAT S 50TH ANNIVERSARY WH A GOLN MEMORATIVE ISSUE AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2024.A PORTN OF THE PROCEEDS BENEFS THE BLUEBOY® ARCHIV & CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATN — AN LGBTQ+ 501 (C)(3) TAX-EXEMPT NONPROF ANIZATN MTED TO THE PRERVATN AND PROMOTN OF BLUEBOY® ARCHIV FOR HISTORIL, TNAL, AND REARCH PURPOS.THE BLUEBOY® GOLDEN 50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE FEATUR EDORIALS, ARTWORK, FASHN LAYOUTS, SHORT STORI, TERVIEWS, VTAGE BLUEBOY® ARCHIVAL NTENT, AND A MALE NU PICTORIAL — REFLECTG UPON OUR RICH LEGACY AND RONATG THE 'GOLN ERA' OF GAY LIFE DURG THE 1970S.EACH BLUEBOY® GOLDEN 50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE IS A NUMBERED PY A LIMED EDN OF 2,024 PI. ONCE THIS EDN IS SOLD OUT, WE WILL PLACE THE ORIGAL WORK PY TO THE BACAF ARCHIV. ONLE VERSNS OF THE MAGAZE WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE. WE MA THIS CISN ORR TO EVOKE THE NOSTALGIC THRILL OF WHAT WAS ONCE LIKE GOG TO THE NEWSSTAND AND PURCHASG THE THE LATT PY.ALL CTOMERS WHO HAVE ACTIVE PRE-ORRS WILL RECEIVE A BETIFUL PY OF THE BLUEBOY® GOLDEN 50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE.YOUR ORR OF OUR INIC MAGAZE SERV AS A MMENT TO SUPPORTG THE ONGOG WORK OF BLUEBOY® ARCHIV & CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATN.LOVE AND APPRECIATN,MISS TIGERBLUEBOY®PUBLISHER AND EDOR--CHIEFFOUNR | BLUEBOY ARCHIV & CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATNBLUEBOY® ARCHIV & CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATNBAF
In this perd, GQ took on a social signifince that s creators uld not have anticipated—as a “d lifele to so many of the hterlands, ” as the Mississippiborn gay memoirist Kev Ssums puts . “I’m almost posive the profsor was gay, ” Iv says.
”Yet for all the homoerotic quali of the Weber-Sterz llaboratns, for all the male sk they showed, they somehow had more crossover appeal than the shoots that Coulianos oversaw. as they splashed and guffawed—didn’t necsarily mean that was y time as soon as the shoot a sense, Coulianos’s and Sterz’s artistic outlooks reprented two different rpons to beg gay at a time when Ameri wasn’t very gay-iendly.
Sterz, though he was only five years younger than Coulianos, seemed to be of a later generatn, one that saw to a future when gay men and the gay sensibily didn’t need to be a revealg sectn that he put together for the September 1980 issue, Sterz had Weber shoot mols the cloth of Amerin signers, wh each signer gettg a two-page spread and each spread featurg a quote which the signer articulated his philosophy. I thought he had a wi appeal, beyond straight or gay. ”None of this prevented Sterz and Aquilon om beg fast iends, though—nor did the fact that the former was gay and the latter straight, the former a Democrat and the latter a Republin, the former a nonrelig person and the latter a practicg Christian.