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.
Michael Lucas is one of the most recognisable figures in gay pornography — not only as the founder and creative director of Lucas Entertainment, but a...
Midnight Cowboy won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1970. It was rated X at the time of its release — the only X-rated film ever to win the Os...
Elska means "love" in Icelandic. Liam Campbell chose the name for his magazine because he was shooting his first issue in Lviv, Ukraine, and wanted...
Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978, becoming the first openly gay man elected to public office in California. H...
There is a Bruce Weber photograph from 1982 — shot for Calvin Klein, which means it appeared on billboards, in magazines, on the sides of buses — of a...
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...
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...
