Stories worth losing yourself in. Deep dives into gay visual culture, the art of the male form, and the platforms that actually deliver what they promise.
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...
Andrew Haigh made Weekend in 2011 and All of Us Strangers in 2023, and between those two films something changed — in Haigh, or in what cinema can...
There is a photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe of a man named Thomas in a three-piece suit. The suit is impeccably cut. Thomas is seated, composed, his...
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...
Wolfgang Tillmans does not make his images look like art. This is the most deliberate thing about them. A Tillmans photograph might be a man's torso...
Touko Laaksonen drew men who did not exist in 1950s Finland. He drew them into existence anyway. This is the essential biographical fact about the ar...
