Blueboy · November/December 1976
Blueboy, November/December 1976: one oiled chest under “Muscles and the Men Who Make Them,” with Arnold Schwarzenegger billed as The Perfect Body.
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Vintage is final sale. Every mark we mention is in the photos.
Condition report
Good. A glossy muscle issue that's held up well, with clean pages inside and just some rubbing along the edges and the black back cover. Two small chips show on the back spine edge. Every mark is in the photos.
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The story
Blueboy sold itself as the national magazine about men, and this issue goes straight for the biceps. Arnold Schwarzenegger gets the cover line, and inside he sprawls on the grass at Venice Beach, swings a dumbbell and poses under the studio lights in a spread captioned "From the gym to the photographer's studio."
Between the muscle there's gay life as it was lived that year: men coming to terms with their churches, how to survive est, whether everyone in Munich is macho, and a Lovers Horoscope illustrated by Fitzgerald and shot by Vance. The ads are half the fun, from the Bourbon Pub & Parade Disco, open 24 hours at 801 Bourbon St. in New Orleans, to Bluenotes offering an alternative to cruising, to Blueboy Fashions' terry velour "Threesome" on the back cover.
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Why it matters
Arnold at Venice Beach in a gay men's glossy, with the New Orleans disco and mail-order velour ads still in place, is 1976 in one issue.
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What we checked before listing it.
Good. A glossy muscle issue that's held up well, with clean pages inside and just some rubbing along the edges and the black back cover. Two small chips show on the back spine edge. Every mark is in the photos.
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