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DID YOU SLEEP WITH THE MODELS? by SAM STAGGS

Sam Staggs

A memoir of my time as editor-in-chief of the gay magazines MANDATE, HONCHO, and PLAYGUY.

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BONUS NUMBER 187: LEOPOLDO METLICOVITZ

Leigh W. Rutledge, a regular contributor to Mandate, Honcho, and Playguy, continues to send me items of interest for Did You Sleep With the Models? just as he did for the magazines. A few weeks ago he sent an email with several attached pos...

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BONUS NUMBER 186: SURGE

Last week, in Bonus Number 185, I featured a four-page layout from Surge Studio as one of the “Shorts,” meaning pint-size features from the magazines as opposed to the usual layout length of seven or eight pages, often more. This week’s fea...

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BONUS NUMBER 185: SHORTS

The title of today’s post refers not to what the models are wearing but rather to the abbreviated length of the three layouts. At the magazines, we had several reasons for running shorter features, e.g. four or five pages rather than the us...

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BONUS NUMBER 184: THE BEAUTY OF MEN

I borrowed the title of today’s post from Andrew Holleran’s novel The Beauty of Men, which was published in 1996. Choosing the seven illustrations from various issues of Mandate, Honcho, and Playguy, I didn’t intentionally emphasize the non...

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