A memoir of my time as editor-in-chief of the gay magazines MANDATE, HONCHO, and PLAYGUY.
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BONUS NUMBER 189: CUT-RATE COLT
After all these years, I still haven’t made up my mind about Kip Horn. This layout was already set to go when I became editor-in-chief, and although this issue of Mandate (June 1982) has my name on the masthead, most of the content was deci...
BONUS NUMBER 188: A DIFFERENT DRUMMER
The most important statement I can make about Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) is that he was the exact opposite in every way of Donald Trump. A list of other scoundrels to whom Thoreau was the antithesis would extend to the moon, but I’ll s...
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...
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...
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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