Honcho: The Masculine Standard
Where Mandate aspired to Playboy, Honcho aspired to something rawer and more specific: the magazine for the gay man whose desire ran toward the...
Paris Is Burning (1990): The Document and the Argument About It
In the late 1980s, in Harlem and the South Bronx, Black and Latino gay and trans people built a culture of extraordinary invention and beauty in the m...
In Touch for Men: The Art-Forward Alternative
While Mavety's empire dominated the mainstream of American gay erotic publishing and Drummer served the leather community from San Francisco, *In To...
The Studios That Built Gay Porn: A Cultural History
Gay pornography has a history. Not a shameful one, not a footnote to real culture, but a genuine history — of studios founded by gay men who saw a mar...
BUTT: The Amsterdam Revolution
In 2001, two young Dutch editors working out of a basement in Amsterdam launched a pocket-sized magazine on pink paper, called it BUTT, and described...
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Men.com: The Mainstream Machine
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Behind the Candelabra (2013): Love in Rhinestones
Every major Hollywood studio passed on Behind the Candelabra. Steven Soderbergh had a script by Richard LaGravenese, two of the most acclaimed actor...
Helix Studios: The Twink Canon
The twink — slender, youthful, smooth-bodied, often with a boyish quality that sits at the edge of adult without crossing it — is one of the most pers...
Icon Male: When Porn Tells Stories
Most gay pornography is not interested in storytelling. It has scenarios — the pool boy, the personal trainer, the step-something — but scenarios are...
Where to Find Artistic Gay Erotic Content Online: The Complete Guide (2025)
The Photographers Who Made the Male Body Art
There is a lineage. It doesn't announce itself, but it's there — running from a Harlem studio in the 1970s through a California beach, a Berlin apartm...