[Beefcake magazines] The Male Figure

36 var. issues of this gay erotic magazine, 1950s and 1960s. Produced by Bruce Bellas, (Bruce of Los Angeles), a pioneer in physique photography. Added: Gay Sunshine. A Newspaper of Gay Liberation. 10th anniversary edition, 1980.

All in very good condition. Beefcake magazines were presented as dedicated to fitness, health and bodybuilding. However, their unstated primary purpose was erotic imagery for gay and bisexual men, skirting mid-20th-century cultural taboos against homosexuality and censorship laws which prohibited depictions of full nudity. (total 37)