For Gays of a Certain Age, What Were Your Favorite Magazines

Mad Magazine when I was a kid

and horny 18 year old

Playgirl

Movieline was a lot of fun, also Spy Magazine, for its features like “Separated at Birth”

Honcho, Blueboy...my tastes varied.

After Dark, of course!

After Dark

Seven Days

Famous Monsters of Filmland

Theatre Week

Premiere

Entertainment Weekly

Black Tail

SPY, who called it early.

Mad magazine Movieline Premiere Vanity Fair back in the day when it was like People magazine for the rich.

For about 20 years, I couldn't wait for each week's Entertainment Weekly to arrive. I devoured that magazine. Loved it. The final 10 years of its existence, it went steadily downhill to the point that I never even got around to reading the two years worth of issues. And then it died.

Also read TV Guide religiously for many years, but it kept dumbing itself down every few years to the point I no longer enjoyed it. Plus, i could get the TV listings on my cable box by that point.

Also loved Premier. Was so sad to see it go.

I liked keeping up with the British music scene and read Melody Maker (much more fun than NME) frequently, but its gone now too.

I also liked Newsweek.

Entertainment Weekly was great before some genius fucked with it.

Redbook

Barbara please!

Photoplay

Another vote for Premiere--entertaining without insulting your intelligence.

Movieline was awesome. And their blind items were the shit.

Spy was hilarious and they had Trump's number from the beginning.

Juggs

Rona Barrett's Hollywood Magazine

After Dark

Cue (NY)

Manshots. Far more than gay porn, it had great interviews with gay adult stars from the past and present. But to be honest, as soon as I got the magazine, I flipped to the last page to see the obituary of the latest porn star to die of AIDS.

Omni, National Geographic

Dynamite was it in my youth. Spy in early adulthood. I so wish SPY would come back.

Details, Smash Hits, Spin

No love for National Lampoon?

Mad, sassy, people, Newsweek, Bazaar,Smithsonian and reader's digest

As a gayling at my local public library in the early 90s, I loved Premiere (the celebrity profiles - I would occasionally xerox them if I wanted to have a copy - MARY!), Movieline and Rolling Stone.

Back in the 80s

Spy

Vanity Fair

New York

New Yorker

HG (US House and Garden).

Atlantic.

Harpers

I used to spend $20 - $40 a week on magazines and then take them to work and leave them in the lobby for clients - but they were mostly taken by cheap stockbrokers.

What r9 said about Entertainment Weekly. That was such a ritual for me for so many years. I don’t know what editor came in and fucked it up but I gave up my subscription at least 5 years before they finally ended the print edition.

I forget the name of it but there was a mens fitness magazine that was basically gay porn.

I was just about to say that, R22. Great magazine back in the day.

I also read Time and Newsweek every week for many years.

MEN'S WORKOUT magazine, R27. Every once in a while, they had actual porn stars either on the cover or in an "exercise" pictorial. They sold it in grocery and drug stores. It was for, you know, your healthy lifestyle.

My parents read Time and my mom wouldn’t let me read comics. But sometimes we’d go over to some other people’s house where the kids had Archie and Jughead. I read every single panel I could, as fast as I could. I LOVED it. I can’t even even the names of the people in that house.

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L'Officiel

Vogue France

Smash Hits for pictures of John Taylor

Hollywood Studio Magazine

Soap Opera Digest

Another vote for Mad Magazine.

Movieline, which I read from cover to cover

Spy, which was beyond hilarious and riveting. Somebody upthread mentioned the priceless Separated at Birth, but there was also Joe Quenan's wise-ass articles

Details

The Advocate (in the late 1980s and 1990s)

Film Comment, which I discovered when I was in college. I saved the issues for years because when I saw a movie that had been written about years earlier, it was great to go back to get a fuller understanding of that movie.

Newsweek

Outweek - another magazine I was addicted to. It was heartbreaking when it went out of business.

Spin

And when I was younger, Cinefantastique

Separated at Birth in Spy was hilarious. There were a couple "Separated at Birth" books and I still have both of them

Straight to Hell

Handjobs

Stroke

As a kid: Mad magazine, Motortrend, Car and Driver, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics. I got them all every month.

Kind of strange for a gayling.

Tatler Highlights when I was a child HG Metropolitan Home TV guide -especially the issue that announced the new Fall Line-up

Details, Spy, Vanity Fair for flights (you could guarantee enough reading material for a transatlantic flight back in the day), and. I was also a fan of Esquire Gentleman, the fashion-focused spinoff of Esquire in the 90s, but it didn't last long.

My earliest memories, Famous Monsters of Filmland.

DMA (Dance Music Authority)

Kind of the Rolling Stone for club music fans

Interview Magazine

Confidential

US Magazine before it was a tabloid!

Details was a downlow gay mag.

Guitar Player, Guitar World, Car and Driver, Motor Trend, Consumer Reports.

Details, Movieline, Interview, The Face, EW, Hero Illustrated, Rolling Stone.

Guess Who, Don't Sue.

Black Inches

I had so many. I read a lot, and I'm an ancientgay. Here are a few.

After Dark

Stereophile

Stereo Review

Listener

Vanity Fair

Apartment Life

Metropolitan Home

Elle Decor

GQ

Men’s Fitness

Highlights

TV Guide

Esquire

New York

Washingtonian

Interview

Entertainment Weekly

Premiere

Men's Health

Men's Fitness (when it was still gay)

Newsweek

Would buy Mad on occasion. Had subscriptions to Motor Trend, GQ and Genre.

r35 Movieline had the best blind items.

Interview

Village Voice

Star Hits (the US version of Smash Hits)

Soap Opera Weekly

Fangoria

Cosmopolitan in the 70s -80s in the spectacular inappropriate Helen Gurley Brown years. “How to give your Boss an erection and take dictation at the same time.”! “Eat Sugar Free Jello for Two Weeks and get a Man Pleasing Tush” plus the annual “Bedside Astrologer.”

R25's list is pretty much mine, less New York magazine, plus more "shelter magazines" as they were then called.

HG (House and Garden [U.S.]) was excellent in the late 1980s-early1990s.

I will add the (still excellent) The World of Interiors and also Country Life [U.K.]

Playgirl

The Young Physique

I loved Wigwag, it was my favorite magazine ever. It was perfect.

Physique Pictorial

As a kid I was crazy about Mad magazine.

Older, I loved Esquire (in the 80s) until it got too full of itself.

Have always liked the Atlantic.

Used to like Newsweek until it went under and a cult bought it out.

Never liked the New Yorker, always found it pretentious and stuffy; the writing is always in the same voice with the same condescending tone, as though the writers are always trying to prove how much smarter they are than their readers.

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[quote] Never liked the New Yorker, always found it pretentious and stuffy; the writing is always in the same voice with the same condescending tone, as though the writers are always trying to prove how much smarter they are than their readers.

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I LOVED Vanity Fair in the 90s

I was a teen but was obsessed with it , to me it was the ultimate A list elitist magazine and I loved how they managed to put Madonna on the cover every year during the 90s it seemed

Also Fangoria and Starlog being I'm a horror/sci Fi junkie

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