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A FEW GOOD MEN… GET DOWN AND GIVE ME TEN (GM19)
1980s · A FEW GOOD MEN
AD / 002101
WHY IT MATTERS
Al Parker's Surge Studio goes to boot camp, with Lee Ryder and Peter Barrie on the cover of this Hardball tie-in to Steve Scott's 1983 film. Drop and give me…
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A NIGHT AT THE BATHS (SHOW HARD NO. 6)
1970s · BACKROOM
AD / 002052
WHY IT MATTERS
A night at the baths, with cage bars and handcuffs, from London Enterprises and the explicit mail-order press of the late '70s. Towel not included.
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ACTION PAC! (TARGET)
1980s · Action Pac!
AD / 002133
WHY IT MATTERS
Target Studios was started by Lou Thomas after he left Colt, and it built its name on mustached, macho men. Action Pac! bills itself as "The First All-Hard All-Color," Target…
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AVANTI (VOL. 1 NO. 3)
AVANTI · BACKROOM
AD / 002008
WHY IT MATTERS
Dallas Ramsey in the pictorials, then news, poetry, travel, decorating tips, sex-law reform and personals. Avanti wanted to be your porn, your newspaper and your interior decorator, all at once.
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BEEFCAKE
AL MINETTI · ALL STAR STUDIO
AD / 002012
WHY IT MATTERS
Bob Anthony's own photography next to Anvil, Dave Martin, Jean Paul David of England and All Star, with Al Minetti and Glenn Johnson among the men. The whole mail-order physique…
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BLACK BALLING
BACKROOM · BLACK BALLING
AD / 002116
WHY IT MATTERS
Nova Publications put an interracial scene on the cover and the back, at a time when gay magazines almost always put white men up front. It's a piece of who…
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BORDELLO STUDS
1980s · BACKROOM
AD / 002102
WHY IT MATTERS
The Old West brothel from Steve Scott's 1983 feature Gold Rush Boys, Victorian parlor and all, printed on paper. Saddle up.
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BRENTWOOD: A FILM REVUE MAGAZINE
1970s · Annuals, Specials & One-Shots
AD / 002136
WHY IT MATTERS
Brentwood's Film Revue magazines were a San Francisco studio selling its movies in print: all color, almost no words, one film per issue. This one opens in a steamed-up shower…
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BULLPEN
BACKROOM · Bears / Hairy
AD / 002104
WHY IT MATTERS
Tan lines, mustaches, body hair and a $35 cover price. Men paid top dollar for this in the '80s, and one look inside tells you why.
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CHAMPION’S ALL (NO. 5)
1980s · BACKROOM
AD / 002114
WHY IT MATTERS
Champion Studio was one of the physique pioneers whose mail-order work helped push American censorship law open. This issue puts Rick, Dave, Knut and Bobby next to Champion's '50s and…
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COCK SUCKERS (VOL. 1 NO. 2)
BACKROOM · BIG "D"
AD / 002073
WHY IT MATTERS
A Big "D" photo-story issue ordered through Star Distributors in New York, with phone-line ads and Manfinder personals in the back. Before the apps, this is how you found a…
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CUMMIN’ UP (VOL. 1 NO. 3)
1980s · BACKROOM
AD / 002064
WHY IT MATTERS
Jeff Stryker on the cover of this Hardball-branded review mag, and French director Jean-Daniel Cadinot interviewed inside. Two heavyweights of '80s gay video, one magazine.
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DOUBLE DONOVAN
BACKROOM · DOUBLE DONOVAN
AD / 002107
WHY IT MATTERS
Rick "Humongous" Donovan, twice: the same two-man scene on the front and the back, split-frame, because once wasn't enough. Graficolor Productions never did subtle, and thank god.
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DOUBLE HEADERS (VOL. 1 NO. 1)
ALAIN · BACKROOM
AD / 002072
WHY IT MATTERS
Alain, Bobby-Jo and Beau on a baseball-pun first issue, with the Sunshine Beach Club selling the matching 200-foot 8mm "Skin Flicks" in the back. Buy the magazine, then order the…
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EL TORO (VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1)
1960s · BACKROOM
AD / 002071
WHY IT MATTERS
Pre-Stonewall, full nudity, and not a single barbell for cover. Most physique mags of the mid-'60s were still pretending to be about fitness. This one didn't bother.
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ENCOUNTER (VOLUME THREE, NUMBER THREE)
BACKROOM · Denim / Workwear
AD / 002053
WHY IT MATTERS
"John Holmes: The Early Years," in a Marquis pictorial storybook for the gay market. The most famous straight porn star of his day, crossing over, and collectors of both love…
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GAY ACTION
BACKROOM · GAY ACTION
AD / 002106
WHY IT MATTERS
Shag carpet, period bedrooms and "ten dollars" spelled out in words on the cover. This is the adult-shop pictorial in its natural habitat, and exactly the kind of thing that…
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GO GUYS (SUMMER QUARTERLY)
1960s · ACME
AD / 002096
WHY IT MATTERS
"Fotoantics, Fashion, Humor, Physical Culture," says ACME's cover. Sure it is. In the early '60s beefcake had to wear a disguise, and this one is barely wearing anything else.
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HARD RIDERS
BACKROOM · Denim / Workwear
AD / 002105
WHY IT MATTERS
Cruising for a pickup, in full color, still wearing the $7 markdown sticker over its $15 cover price. Somebody got a deal, and now you get the sticker too.
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HIS (NO. 1)
BACKROOM · HIS
AD / 002112
WHY IT MATTERS
A first issue that puts a full-frontal color nude right on the cover and doesn't apologize for it. Little titles like His tended to vanish after an issue or two,…
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HOT SHOTS (VOL. 1 NO. 1)
BACKROOM · Denim / Workwear
AD / 002080
WHY IT MATTERS
One story, "Pocket Pool," a billiard room, and Toby Watson and Randy Andrews named on the cover. A first issue that knew exactly what game it was playing.
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HUSTLER’S HOLIDAY (NO. 1)
BACKROOM · HUSTLER'S HOLIDAY
AD / 002054
WHY IT MATTERS
First-person hustler confessions and staged two-man photo sets. Dear Diary, in the first issue of a title almost nobody has heard of.
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IN TOUCH FOR MEN (NO. 93)
1980s · BACKROOM
AD / 002131
WHY IT MATTERS
Los Angeles hosted the Summer Olympics in 1984, and In Touch, the L.A. magazine known for its blond surfer boys, answered with its own Sports Spectacular: "not the official magazine…
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JOCK (JANUARY 1990)
1990s · BACKROOM
AD / 002108
WHY IT MATTERS
Joey Stefano as Cover Jock, with Roger inside, in the first year of a short, wild career people are still writing about. Get him while he's fresh.
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LEATHER AND LEVI GUYS (NO. 4)
BACKROOM · Blue-Collar / Working Men
AD / 002066
WHY IT MATTERS
Dan Kennedy in outdoor restraint and workwear, plus a hand-drawn serialized erotic comic in the same issue. Leather, Levi's and a bedtime story.
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MAKING IT (VOLUME 2)
BACKROOM · MAKING IT
AD / 002055
WHY IT MATTERS
"Las Vegas" and "San Diego" on the cover. 1970s gay erotica as a road trip, printed on colored stock that's half the fun.
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MALE INSIDER (VOL. 1 NO. 3)
1980s · AL PARKER
AD / 002069
WHY IT MATTERS
Rick "Humongous" Donovan inside, plus a Male Insider readers' poll of the Top 10 biggest stars. Al Parker and Jack Wrangler made the list, and yes, the pun is intended.
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MALE NUDE (NO. 5)
BACKROOM · MALE NUDE
AD / 002075
WHY IT MATTERS
"NPC Spectracolor" pages and pop-graphic collage layouts. The small-press nude magazines wanted to be art school too, and honestly, they pulled it off.
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MANDATE (AUGUST 1976)
1970s · BACKROOM
AD / 002132
WHY IT MATTERS
Mandate printed its first color cover in August 1976, and this is it. George Mavety's magazine was barely a year old: Loren, Nureyev and Taylor in the photo pages, a…
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MANDATE (MAY 1979)
1970s · BACKROOM
AD / 002098
WHY IT MATTERS
Audrey Hepburn, Alan Bates and Ray Caviano, in the same issue as the nudes. That was George Mavety's Mandate in 1979: celebrity gossip up front, eros in the back, and…
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MY-O-MY
BACKROOM · GROUPS
AD / 002076
WHY IT MATTERS
Three-man poses like living sculpture, against saturated color backdrops. It's half pop art, half porn, and it will stop conversations on your coffee table.
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MY-O-MY (VOLUME II)
BACKROOM · MY-O-MY
AD / 002077
WHY IT MATTERS
The state of New Jersey entered this very title as evidence in a 1972 obscenity case. Own the magazine they put on trial.
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NOVA MEN
Annuals, Specials & One-Shots · BACKROOM
AD / 002134
WHY IT MATTERS
Nova Studios invented the West Coast look: bright, staged, story-driven sex with groomed California boys, and it sold its films through 16-page full-color glossies exactly like this one. Six Nova…
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PHOTORAMA (NUMBER 2)
BACKROOM · CHARLES VINSON
AD / 002078
WHY IT MATTERS
A DSI male-nude serial out of Burbank, with Charles Vinson among its named models and a house ad for the publisher's other titles. Small-press, mail-order, and the kind of thing…
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PISTON POWER!
Annuals, Specials & One-Shots · BACKROOM
AD / 002130
WHY IT MATTERS
Bruno was the face of 1970s gay macho, a Colt and Target man with the mustache and the chest hair to prove it. Here he shares the bill with Hawk…
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PLAYGUY (FEBRUARY 1985)
1980s · BACKROOM
AD / 002103
WHY IT MATTERS
Downtown performance artist John Sex in the interview slot of a skin mag. The East Village club kids crashed Playguy, and it's a gem for anyone who loves '80s New…
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PLAYGUY (VOL. 6 NO. 11)
1980s · BACKROOM
AD / 002113
WHY IT MATTERS
Right on the back cover, a New York club is renting out VHS and Beta tapes, fronted by filmstar Keith Anthoni. Porn was about to move from the magazine rack…
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QQ MAGAZINE (APRIL 1978)
1970s · BACKROOM
AD / 002137
WHY IT MATTERS
QQ started as Queen's Quarterly in 1969, the year of Stonewall, and by 1978 it was selling science, sex advice and personals on one cover: the origin of homosexuality, the…
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REX (NO. 1)
1960s · 1970s
AD / 002079
WHY IT MATTERS
A late-'60s NPC Spectracolor first issue still pretending it's about nudism, wink wink, with Guild Press ads in the back. Guild Press was one of the earliest gay mail-order publishers,…
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SPARTAN FOR MEN (VOL. 1 NO. 3)
BACKROOM · Serials
AD / 002060
WHY IT MATTERS
Spartan for Men ran full-frontal pictorials next to an exposé on the "cure peddlers" who swore they could cure homosexuality. Nothing says "no thanks" like a centerfold.
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STROKE (MAGCORP 12/2)
1990s · BACKROOM
AD / 002109
WHY IT MATTERS
Catalina and Falcon photo sets, dirty fiction, fetish features and drawings by the Hun, all between the same Magcorp covers. Early-'90s Stroke was the all-you-can-eat buffet, and the Hun's art…
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STROKE (MAGCORP 13/6)
1990s · BACKROOM
AD / 002110
WHY IT MATTERS
Falcon star Jon King quit films in 1989, and this Magcorp Stroke is built around his "Big Cum Back." Some comebacks deserve a whole magazine.
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SURF’S UP (ISSUE NO. 2)
BACKROOM · Castro Clone
AD / 002100
WHY IT MATTERS
"An Al Parker Production," says the cover, from Surge Studio, the company Parker co-founded. Beach, surfboards, hairy mustached men, and a legend behind the camera for a change.
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THE AL PARKER ALBUM
1980s · AL PARKER
AD / 002099
WHY IT MATTERS
Al Parker was the gay porn star of his era, and this Colt Studio album is all about him, with Colt men Mike Davis, Bob Bishop, Tony Romano, Toby and…
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THREE DAYS OF LOVE WITH ROGER (NO. 1)
BACKROOM · Mecca
AD / 002135
WHY IT MATTERS
Most of the era sold sex. This one sold a love story: a kiss on the cover, two men walking hand in hand into a beach sunset on the back,…
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TOO HOT TO HANDLE (NUMBER 10)
1980s · BACKROOM
AD / 002115
WHY IT MATTERS
Sold as "the photos In Touch for Men couldn't print." In Touch was one of the big gay newsstand magazines of its day, and this is the uncensored side of…
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UNCUT (ISSUE NO. 1)
1980s · BACKROOM
AD / 002068
WHY IT MATTERS
Issue one from San Francisco's Lobo Studios, introducing two "exclusive discoveries," Jeff Porter and Cal Driver, in flannel and denim. Lobo found them first; now you get to.
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VICIOUS DICKS (NUMBER ONE)
1980s · BACKROOM
AD / 002081
WHY IT MATTERS
Forty dollars, all color, and video stars Marc Bennett, Cody Rogers and Rex Morgan named on the cover. Graficolor Productions didn't do budget, and neither should you.
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