details and gq

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okay, it's a little known fact among people of our generation that, while gq was ostensibly a "straight" magazine, it was indeed a magazine for gays. they never admitted it (neither did Abercrombie), but everyone knew it. it abandoned that title a coupla years ago, to go more "mainstream."

details thus took over where gq left off. though I read THE ECONOMIST regularly, details is much more fun, and it's the only magazine I subsrcibe to. every month they have a section known as "anthropology" which has a picture of a man and a fun title, such as:

gay or british?
gay or asian?
gay or preppy?
gay or democratic presidential front-runner?
gay or jesus?

and so on. it's the gayest "straight" magazine you'll ever see, and I think it even has lots of straight readers who don't really get it. sigh...breeders. in any case, details is now much more fun, and, to capture their audience, they put very edgy photos on their covers. e.g., nick lachey (although they could've done better) rob lowe (who knew he was still hot), ashton kutcher, etc.

like martha stewart living, details is a good thing we hope never goes away.

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