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BoysDo vs Tinder for Relationships: A Straight App with a Gay Mode Is Still a Straight App
Mandate: The Gay Playboy
George Mavety was a Canadian textbook salesman who looked around his Manhattan neighbourhood in the early 1970s and saw something that others had miss...
Beautiful Thing (1996): A South London Summer
Beautiful Thing is the kindest film on this list. That is not a small thing. Queer cinema has often felt compelled to earn its right to exist throug...
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...
BoysDo vs PornHub: Why Artistic Gay Erotic Photography Beats Volume
Softcore vs Pornography: Where the Line Is and Why It Moves
The word "softcore" arrived in the cultural vocabulary as a rating category — a way of describing adult content that stopped short of explicit sexual...
Wolfgang Tillmans: Intimacy as Practice
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...
Softcore vs Erotic Photography: The Same Thing, or Something Different?
Softcore and erotic photography are often used as synonyms. They are not quite the same thing, and understanding the difference — or rather, understan...
Erotic Art vs Erotic Photography: The Lens and the Hand
Tom of Finland drew men who did not exist. Robert Mapplethorpe photographed men who did. Both produced images of the male body with erotic intent, bot...
Brokeback Mountain (2005): The One That Broke Through
Brokeback Mountain won three Academy Awards, including Best Director for Ang Lee, and was widely expected to win Best Picture before the Academy vot...