Alan Cumming on the cover this month’s L’uomo Vogue via [Alan Cumming Blog]
Magazines, Zines, Newspapers
The front page of Wednesday’s Times speaks of the most up-to-date struggles on the DODT hearings, in which top military officials, including Admiral Mike Mullen, support the inclusion of LGBT soldiers into legal and unfettered members of the Armed forces.
Unfortunately, on the defensive against changing policy was non other than Senator John McCain, the guy who failed to become president but helped elevate a witless moron to the position of America’s Most Powerful Idiot, and by this I mean Sarah Palin. But enough about Palin.
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[via Perez's twitter]
The new VMan is out. Everyone is talking about Nick Jonas (he’s on the cover) and Glambert, but my favorite visual story in the issue (perhaps one of my favorites in months) is Bruce Weber’s homage to reading. I’ve always said this, the best accessory each and every season is a good book. Full disclosure, I used to work in book publishing, so I’m biased. But to me, there are few sexier things than a beautiful man reading an even more beautiful book. See the full issue here.
Hey homos, the new issue of ‘Hero’ is out now and available everywhere from Collette Paris to B&N Union Square. The gents at Hero were kind enough to share these two photo stories with us. The first shoot is by Bruno Staub. It’s a black and white sporty-type of story featuring Alexander from Major Model Mgmt Paris and Clement from Bananas Paris—all styled by Jean-Michel Clerc—as the boys carouse Parisian playgrounds on a lazy afternoon (we’ll post those pics later this week). The second shoot (see below) is via photog Matthew Kristall and features Ryan B (B for Bertroche) from Re:Quest and rising star, Joan Pedrola, from Major Model Mgmt New York (he was in BlackBook last month) styled by James Worthington Demolet. Kristall is fascinated by texture and contrasting colorful backgrounds—he did the cover of Issue 1—we especially love the painting of the two older blokes over Ryan’s shoulder in shot 4. Daddy much? Get your own copy or check out stocklists and more at www.hero-zine.com.
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Whenever a new magazine showcasing cute, half-naked male models debuts, we try our best to bring it to your attention. (See Guapo, Adonis, Purple, Kaiserin, we could go on.) The latest mens fashion mag to find its way to our bookmarks bar is Feld Hommes — the name is French, but the domain is German — and if these editorial photos are telling of what is to come, then sign us up. Just don’t make us pay too much it. Wink, wink. More pictures and their About Statement below.
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The brainchild of William Johnson, “Mary,” is a quarterly literary magazine. “Our mission is to showcase Queer/Gay writings of artistic merit,” explains Johnson via email. “We want the children to read literature, not each other,” he quips. The first issue debuted in October 2009 and Johnson tells us the initial response is solid. Based out of DUMBO, Johnson’s goal is that “Mary” capture and examine “queer moments.”
There seems to be a micro trend of lit-zines within in the growing gay-zine scene. (For examples look to Ganymede, which we wrote about last fall, or Brooklyn-based, “_Quarterly“, or SLICE magazine, which we’ve also covered.) “Mary” seems like a lovely publication with some great writing, and we wish Johnson the best of luck. Look for an interview next month. The winter issue of “Mary” is scheduled to be published March 2010, and Johnson says he is still accepting submissions up until Feb 30, 2010.
Submissions should not be any longer than 5,000 words, and can be submitted electronically at maryliterary@gmail.com. Writers whose work is accepted will be awarded a small honorarium.
Harper’s Index—the smart, humorous, thoughtful pastiche of statistics and tidbits that has been arguably the publication’s most-thumbed section for the past 26 years—is available online as a searchable database, we recently discovered (see this month’s round up to check out its format as presented in the magazine). We warn, though, that it’s a superb vehicle for procrastination with its facts about the odd nooks and crannies of our culture. Where else would you have learned the amount of Bill Clinton’s charitable donations for his used underwear from 1986 to 1993? Or South Korea’s previously broad definition for acts of lechery. Or the cost per minute to hear the Bill of Rights read over the phone “in a provocative manner” by a woman named Bambi? (BTW, if anyone can find Bambi’s number email us!)
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Launch party invitation
Kaiserin, the biannual, bilingual “magazine for boys with problems,” is celebrating the launch of issue seven with a party in Paris on Friday, January 15, at Galerie the Window 41 (open bar!). The afterparty, at nearby La Chop des Artistes, is hosted by, get this: Otto Dicks and Kebab-in-Vichy. The afterparty appears to be the inaugural installment of their new party, called Yodel Weiss. That said, I could have this all wrong: I don’t speak crazy.
Has Gore Vidal finally gone too far? The old bard’s literary “dauphin,” Christopher Hitchens, thinks perhaps enough is enough. [Vanity Fair]
If you haven’t already, you absolutely must read this article in LA Weekly about Bruce LaBruce’s upcoming art-porn-film ‘LA Zombie.’ Here’s a deliciously, ridiculous quote:
I’m interested in porn partly because I hate porn,” [Bruce LaBruce] says. “I get frustrated that there isn’t more interesting stuff going on in it. I feel like I have to at least try to make something that’s a little more interesting. Also, for me, it’s kind of a statement about gay representation and the state of the gay movement, which has become so preposterously conservative that porn really is one of the last places where you can have radical expression on a certain level, in terms of really explicit homosexual material, in terms of extremes in representation and not just holding anything back.
Also, how did we miss ‘LA Zombie’s’ Francois Sagat in Italian Vanity Fair? Oh, that’s right. We don’t subscribe to Italian Vanity Fair. Thank goodness for The Gay Porn Times (NSFW) which brought this to our attention. Apparently Francois Sagat is all over the place lately making an appearance on Queerty and QueerClick (NSFW) and even in this French safe sex commercial which you can find on The Sword (NSFW)
via Models.com
Perhaps one of the most anticipated magazine issues of the entire year (already!) is the cover of V Magazine’s size issue (which features many, many plus size models). We’ve heard about this for months now (both good and bad), but when last week cover pictures finally surfaced, we couldn’t believe ourselves when we saw, ‘Precious’ star and Golden Globe nominee, Gabourey Sidibe, on the cover. Holy shit! If you haven’t already, you must watch Sdibe’s interview on Conan (below the fold). She’s amazing. The cover is photographed by super, super famous photog team Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. The issue hits stands tomorrow.
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Read the full interview in Details.
What happened in 2009? Here’s our year in review from Vogue Hommes Nippon to American Vogue.
Shutterbug wrote about Hedi Slimane's cover for Vogue Hommes Nippon back in March of 2009
Lady G. made headlines in September with this cover for V Magazine shot by superstar photog, Mario Testino.
First Lady and fashion taste-maker, Michelle Obama, graced the cover of Vogue. deadpix3l was unimpressed.
Karl Lagerfeld’s ‘peelable’ Wallpaper* cover starring his muse, Baptiste Giabiconi.
…with stunning typography by Jennifer Green. Did you catch this week’s New York Times editorial? It’s gorgeously vintage and writer David Colman mentions two of our favorite blogs: Fine&DandyShop and ACL. There is a very powerful constituency of style-setters who are pushing this vintage, 60’s mod-era type of look–just look at the films “NINE” and “A Single Man” for examples. This is a great, exciting trend–except for one thing: no people of color. We’ll discuss this more later, but keep it on your radar. Does 60’s Style = No POC’s? And why is this so attractive to American’s right now?
image source: I.D. Magazine
The latest casualty of the print vs. web wars is venerable design magazine I.D. (not to be confused with British fashion mag i-D). I.D.’s publisher F+W Media announced Tuesday that the magazine will cease publication with its January/February 2010 issue. Published since 1954 and first known as Industrial Design, the magazine was rebranded I.D. in the 1980s to stand stand for International Design and to reflect the publication’s multi-disciplinary focus.
I.D. came to be a resource for architectural, product, fashion, and graphic designers alike, highlighting wildly conceptual designs alongside savvy coverage of the business of design. Each year I.D. published its Annual Design Review issue (click for a slideshow of last year’s winners), with a peer jury selecting the best of the year from thousands of submissions in categories such Consumer Products, Furniture, and Concepts. In Tuesday’s press release, F+W’s editorial director Gary Lynch noted that “F+W Media will continue producing the I.D. Annual Design Review… in an expanded fashion online.” Winners last year ranged from Perkins Eastman’s TKTS booth in Times Square to Carbon Design Group’s design for the Nanopoint cellTRAY Fluidics System (a tool used by scientists to study the interactions between chemicals on the molecular level), indicating the wide scope of the Annual Design Review and the broadening, which I.D. championed, of the definition of “design.”
Designer Manuel Albarran teamed up with Homo-Neurotic favorites, photographers Luca and Luigi, in a feature on otherworldly metal couture in a recent issue of Dazed & Confused. If you’ve been a longtime follower of Homo-Neurotic, you’ll recall that we did an interview with Luca and Luigi a while back that’s definitely worth checking out. More photos from the collection by following the link above.
In case you missed the melee… here are a few of the images that made headlines last month/year of Bristol Palin’s baby-daddy, Levi Johnston, gives us a full posterior–pretty much everything but the pecker. And that’s certainly not a complaint. We’ll take what we can get. But more importantly, why is Johnston so attractive to men and women alike? The answer, if you ask us, is simple: he’s the anti Zac Efron. Forget about ripped abs and the shaved chested pretty boys of “Twilight” or “High School Musical” — this guy is a guy’s guy. The kind of dude every gay man fantasized about in High School — the untouchable, straight jock, who gets girls pregnant before he’s of legal drinking or voting age. Gay men are obsessed with this prototype. Call it self-loathing or st8-acting obsessed, either way we have to admit, that this Levi fella is hella sexy — and from the looks of these shots, he knows it too. [OBVI NSFW]