Zing
Vol. 1, No. 12 (April 1960)
USA - Magazine
Beefcake - Gay content
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ma-000068-0013
Scan
No. 13
USA - Magazine
Male Beefcake Magazine
Featuring Bob Anthony, Angelo Studio, Bond Photos, Galaxy Photos, Champion Physiques, Scott Photos, Stan, Troy Saxon.
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ma-000067-1965-09
The Young Physique
Vol. 6, No. 6 (September/October 1965
Young Physique Vol.6 No.6 September-October 1965, Magazine still has attached 2 ordering promotional postcards. Vintage Male Beefcake Magazine
Young Physique combines the Magazines Adonis and Body Beautiful both Published by the King of the Body Building World Joe Weider.
Young Physique was a more sophisticated vintage gay muscle magazine that hid the fact is was geared for homosexual men. Young Physique is a beefcake magazine published in the era of the 1930's through the 1960's.
The main audience of beefcake magazines was gay men. However, Beefcake magazines were designed to appear as fitness and health magazines rather than erotic magazines, because of censorship and homophobia. Typically, the models in a beefcake magazine such as Young Physique performed exercise poses in the magazine's photos, rather than explicitly being shown in sexual settings.
Pocket-size Beefcake magazines that were available are Adonis, Art and Physique, Body Beautiful, Fizeek Art Quarterly, Grecian Guild Pictorial, Male Figure, Male Pix, Man Alive, Manorama, MANual, Man's World, Mars, Physique Illustrated, Physique Artistry, Physique Pictorial, Scan, Tomorrow's Man, Trim, and Fizeek.
In December 1945, Gay pornography pioneer Bob Mizer founded Athletic Model Guild, or AMG. Mizer's AMG produced Physique Pictorial, the first all-nude and all-male magazine, and the film Beefcake documents his work and the growth of the Beefcake magazine industry. H. Lynn Womack published magazines such as Manorama, MANual, Fizeek, and Trim and was involved in the U.S. Supreme Court case MANual Enterprises v. Day (1962). From 1964 to 1967, Clark Polak published DRUM magazine.
In the 1960's, the pretense of being about exercise and fitness was dropped as controls on pornography were reduced. By the end of the decade gay pornography became legal, and the market for beefcake magazines collapsed.
Young Physique magazine was a prime example of this genre. It had a centerfold with a young model wearing a posing strap (g-string) with creative sets designed by the well-known gay photographer James Bidgood. Showing total nudity was illegal before 1962, so all models had to wear posing straps. Since Young Physique was widely available in drugstores and magazine stores all over the United States, even in smaller cities and small towns, buying a copy of the magazine is the way most young homophiles in the 1960's made their first contact with the gay world.
In the 1980's and 1990's, beefcake magazines enjoyed a resurgence due to a heightened interest in gym culture as well as the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Numerous titles found success, such as Men's Workout, Exercise for Men Only, and Men's Exercise. These magazines are highly visual-oriented with extensive pictorials in contrast to fitness magazines that focus more on text such as Men's Fitness. Many of the images feature homoerotic or suggestive sexual imagery, such as male models unbuttoning their pants or almost full nudity. Some have included profiles of male strippers and some of the male models have also appeared in Playgirl. (informations from ebay auction)
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ma-000064-1974-07
David Vol 4 No 1, July 1974 USA M´- Magazine Large format 8 1/2" x 11", 80 pages. Rare gay magazine with dozens of black and white and color photos. |
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ma-000062-1955-12
Cabaret
December 1955 - Vol. 1, No. 8
Titan Publications, Skokie, IL.
March 1955 - Sept. 1957
Format: 10'' x 12''
ma-000062-1955-11
Cabaret
November 1955 - Vol. 1, No. 7
Titan Publications, Skokie, IL.
March 1955 - Sept. 1957
Format: 10'' x 12''
ma-000062-1955-10
Cabaret
Oktober 1955 - Vol. 1, No. 6
Titan Publications, Skokie, IL.
March 1955 - Sept. 1957
Format: 10'' x 12''
ma-000062-1955-08
Cabaret
August 1955 - Vol. 1, No. 4
Titan Publications, Skokie, IL.
March 1955 - Sept. 1957
Format: 10'' x 12''
ma-000062-1955-07
Cabaret
July 1955 - Vol. 1, No. 3
Titan Publications, Skokie, IL.
March 1955 - Sept. 1957
Format: 10'' x 12''
ma-000061-1953-05
HIT!
A Pictorial Peek at Life
May 1953
Cover Girl: Susan Gates
USA - Magazine
Volitant Publishing Corp., New York
March 1942 - 1959 (?)
ma-000061-1952-11
HIT!
A Pictorial Peek at Life
November 1952
Cover Girl: Busty Brown
USA - Magazine
Volitant Publishing Corp., New York
March 1942 - 1959 (?)
ma-000061-1952-03
HIT!
A Pictorial Peek at Life
March / April 1952
Cover Girl: Joanne Arnold
USA - Magazine
Volitant Publishing Corp., New York
March 1942 - 1959 (?)
ma-000061-1950-05
HIT!
A Humorous Peek at Life
May 1950
Cover Girl: Carol Ohmart
USA - Magazine
Volitant Publishing Corp., New York
March 1942 - 1959 (?)
ma-000061-1944-12
HIT!
The Sevice Man's Gazette
December 1944
Cover Girl: Betty Grable
USA - Magazine
Volitant Publishing Corp., New York
March 1942 - 1959 (?)
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