Butt (magazine)

BUTT was a quarterly magazine for gay men, founded in 2001 and edited by Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom.[1] In 2005, The Guardian named BUTT as one of its top twenty magazines.[2] As of 2008, it had an estimated worldwide circulation of 24,000.[3] In 2014, Taschen released BUTT Forever, an anthology of some of the magazine's highlights since its inception.[4]

BUTT
Cover of BUTT 23 (Spring 2008)
EditorsGert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom
CategoriesGay
FrequencyQuarterly
Circulation24,000
First issueSpring 2001
CountryNetherlands
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.buttmagazine.com

The magazine, originating in the Netherlands, featured interviews, articles, and advertisements and illuminated upon trends and lifestyles within the male homosexual community.

The magazine published photography and interviews with renowned gay artists, and became well-known with its very first issue, which showed German fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm in nude portraits taken by Wolfgang Tillmans. Since its first issue in May 2001, BUTT has featured gay artists such as Casey Spooner, Michael Stipe, John Waters, Heinz Peter Knes, Edmund White, Terence Koh, Walter Pfeiffer, and Slava Mogutin.

Readers submitted interviews, letters, photographs, or articles. Subscribers were referred to as "Buttheads" and could join the Butthead community officially through the magazine's website.

The magazine was available worldwide. In the United States and the United Kingdom, it was available in American Apparel stores, among other places. It ceased publication in 2011.[5]

BUTT has been praised for its unabashed sexual and non-sexual portrayals of men, which emphasize equal opportunity in depictions of all people in print.[6] The magazine has been lauded for its unique, candid approach to interviews, which may be done by anyone.[7]

References
  1. Jonkers, Gert; van Bennekom, Jop (2008). "About BUTT Magazine". BUTT. Archived from the original on 26 May 2008. Retrieved 3 April 2008.
  2. Covered in glory, The Guardian, 11 December 2005, retrieved 9 April 2017
  3. Hornyn, Cathy (2008-03-09). "Double Dutch". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-12.
  4. Forever BUTT, Taschen, 2014, retrieved 9 April 2017
  5. https://hornet.com/stories/butt-magazine-documentary/
  6. McClear, Sheila. "Finally, a Chance for Fully-Splayed Men" Archived February 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Gawker, February 5, 2008. Accessed 3 April 2008.
  7. AMP "Why I Love BUTT Magazine" AMP Minizine, 2008. Accessed 3 April 2008.
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