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Drummer: The Leather Canon

Drummer: The Leather Canon

Drummer was different from every other gay magazine of its era, and the difference was not simply its content. It was gay-owned, gay-edited, and pro...

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Men.com: The Mainstream Machine

Men.com: The Mainstream Machine

Men.com gay porn, Men.com studio review, best gay porn sites, Men.com scenarios parody, popular gay adult site Men.com occupies a specific and well-d...

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BUTT: The Amsterdam Revolution

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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Queer (2024): Desire as the Only Religion

Queer (2024): Desire as the Only Religion

William Burroughs wrote Queer in the early 1950s, directly after the accidental shooting death of his wife Joan Vollmer in Mexico City — an event th...

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Active Duty: Two Decades of Selling the Uniform

Active Duty: Two Decades of Selling the Uniform

The military man is one of the oldest standing fantasies in gay culture. The uniform, the haircut, the chain of command, the institutional intimacy of...

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Where to Find Artistic Gay Erotic Content Online: The Complete Guide (2025)

Where to Find Artistic Gay Erotic Content Online: The Complete Guide (2025)

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Call Me by Your Name (2017): A Summer That Lasts

Call Me by Your Name (2017): A Summer That Lasts

Call Me by Your Name is the BoysDo film. Not because it was made for this platform — it wasn't — but because it inhabits, more fully than any other...

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God's Own Country (2017): Mud, Cold, and Something Real

God's Own Country (2017): Mud, Cold, and Something Real

God's Own Country arrived in the same year as Call Me by Your Name, and the comparison was immediate and instructive. Both films are about a young...

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BelAmi: The European Vision

BelAmi: The European Vision

In 1993, a Hungarian-born director named George Duroy began making gay pornographic films in Slovakia with a group of young men whose look had no prec...

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The Magazines That Built Gay Visual Culture: From Physique Pictorial to Elska

The Magazines That Built Gay Visual Culture: From Physique Pictorial to Elska

Before the internet. Before streaming. Before Tumblr and OnlyFans and the infinite scroll of desire available to any gay man with a phone and a data c...

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The Photographers Who Made the Male Body Art

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...

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The Films Every Gay Man Should See: A BoysDo Guide to Queer Cinema

The Films Every Gay Man Should See: A BoysDo Guide to Queer Cinema

There is a cinema of the body. Not pornography — something more considered than that, and more honest. A cinema that understands desire as a subject w...

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