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I can only imagine that it made a lot of G/B boys feel less alone. You can find the cover and other pics online. He never once made a big deal about it or expressed any doubt or regret, nor did he “compensate” for the cover by talking about how he isn’t gay. He didn’t need the money and was probably paid a pittance. He took an enormous risk to be on the cover of XY - solo, He didn’t need to do it. This would have been during a period of rapidly rising popularity for him and the BSB. I was only 8 yo, so XY meant nothing to me personally, but it was the one-and-only magazine in the USA for LGB young people, so it mattered for a lot of LGB teens and young adults.Īnyway, at that time, when there was absolutely nothing to be gained by a celebrity being associated with gay people, none other than Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys did a cover photo shoot for XY. I hate to reward Queerty with interaction on recycled content, but since this post involves XY Magazine, I want to take note of something really amazing that happened w/ that publication.
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But this magazine was not *really* intended to sell to those young readers for creating a positive image. Of course Abercrombie & Fitch did the same thing so times were different then. And it gave young men representation of themselves but it was always in a sexual theme. So we settled on a shoot where it looked like we were watching each other through windows. And he asked over and over if we would do the bondage shoot but we kept saying no. So we repeatedly apologized for making him upset.
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The editor then proceeded to have a temper tantrum, and pouted and acted like he was so offended that we wouldn’t do what he wanted because he was the victim. And he asked several times, staring at me with long pauses to get me to cave in. I said no, I don’t want to do this in a photo shoot. He wanted to explore the older/younger theme that we looked like by having me tie him up in various poses. And the editor gave me a leather cage arm harness to put on my boyfriend for the shoot, one of those harnesses that are used to restrain someone’s arms behind them while keeping the arms straight. I was almost a foot taller than him and he had a lovely wrinkle-free face and blond hair. When we showed up the editor remarked about how much older I looked then my boyfriend-we were only 10 months apart in age, but we looked like it was 10 years. The editor pitched it as a story about my relationship with an actor, who had been in a popular indie movie.
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Kudos to Colton for doing the photos, kudos to him for his current attitudes and his apparent full self acceptance, and kudos to XY for showing young gay kids that gay attraction and contact is beautiful. XY did a tremendous service for young gay kids, showing them that what they were feeling was beautiful rather than shameful, showing them that they were not alone, and showing them, by virtue of the photos in a magazine in a mainstream bookstore, that there was some level of public acceptance. And if their parents approve, there is nothing wrong with expressing that in a magazine (short of porn, of course). But teens are sexual and romantic, and there is nothing wrong with them expressing that. And no, I’m certainly not talking about adults preying on kids. We’ve developed a puritanism about age that I don’t think is healthy, especially since any age demarcations are essentially arbitrary. Nothing wrong from the model’s end, and nothing wrong from the magazine’s end.
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If a teen is comfortable showing skin and intimacy, and a parent signs the release (implying a solid family situation), there is nothing wrong with appearing in XY. XY was anything but skeevy since the photos, while erotic, were also not overly explicit. I was 19 when I fully recognized my true nature, but many or most gay people discover their identities in the mid teens or earlier. At that time an openly gay themed photo-centric magazine was not a common thing to see. I discovered XY Magazine in the bookstores in the 90s. Donston, I strongly disagree with your first paragraph, but I agree with the remainder of your post.