A memoir of my time as editor-in-chief of the gay magazines MANDATE, HONCHO, and PLAYGUY.
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BONUS NUMBER 198: CURTAIN UP!
Today’s post echoes two previous ones: Bonus Number 65, “Tales of Manhattan” (April 12, 2024), and Bonus Number 114, “Going to the Movies in 1980s New York” (February 23, 2025). Those previous posts fit the categories of nostalgia and of ga...
BONUS NUMBER 197: DOUBLE OR NOTHING
What do you do when one man is not enough? You invite another one. Which is what I did when this first Playguy layout seemed a few pages, a few images, too short, in spite of the model’s obvious charms.
The second Playguy model is a good...
BONUS NUMBER 196: HOW BIG IS TOO BIG?
You’ve often seen Kristen Bjorn’s models here and elsewhere. He is of course an exceptional photographer, and one facet of his work that sets him apart is his versatility. For Mandate, he typically photographed men who resembled fashion mod...
BONUS NUMBER 195: STANDOUTS
The eight illustrations you see here were done by an artist who called himself Greg. Each one of these pictures appeared in an issue of Mandate, Honcho, or Playguy during my final year as editor-in-chief, meaning that Greg was a latecomer w...
BONUS NUMBER 194: BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL
And this model, whose name is Rock, proves the point.
Note that he was photographed by Surge Studio, which was owned by Al Parker. You’ll recall that in several recent posts I’ve dissed Surge for work that I considered less than top notch...
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