Buying Gay : : How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement / / David K. Johnson.
In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands-the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles, letters from readers, and advertisements, served a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. Emerging from the Muscle Magazines: Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild
- 2. Selling Gay Books: Donald Webster Cory's "Business with a Conscience"
- 3. The Grecian Guild: Imagining a Gay Past, and Future
- 4. "I Want a Pen Pal!": Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield and the Adonis Male Club
- 5. Defending a Naked Boy: Lynn Womack at the Supreme Court
- 6. Consolidating the Market: DSI of Minneapolis
- 7. The Physique Legacy
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index