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Post by 1stpoofinspace on Jun 12, 2005 0:26:58 GMT
If you think about Attitude as a gay lad's mag, then you'll see it isn't so bad. It has pictures of men with their tops off, some fashiony knobby nonsense and plenty of arse-licking interviews with utterly pointless people. On top of that, it does occasionally try and cover some issues that might be relevant to young gay men. If you take something like Zoo or FHM as your frame of reference, you'll see things could be a lot worse. Think of it as 'Vapid Plus'.
Gay Times is more disappointing though...I rarely buy it these days. I liked it when it was a bit political. Now, it's like someone said, 'Right, let's have a politically aware gay magazine, but to get people to buy it, let's plaster it with semi-naked men. But let's not make them attractive men, let's make them look unhealthily over-muscled, and photoshop them to within an inch of their lives, so it's more arty. Oh, and we'll take the political bits out, to fit more men in'.
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Post by Rustie Lee on Jun 28, 2005 14:09:27 GMT
Oh Attitude's all right. Although I do find their continual NAKED!!!!!! ISSUES rather TRYING, but I suppose it's the only way they can keep the circulation up
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Post by boyd on Jul 2, 2005 4:09:03 GMT
That magazinne is for the gays.
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Post by Gordon on Jul 6, 2005 2:03:51 GMT
I'm starting to really like Attitude. I think it comes across now as really positive, I really look forward to every issue. Plus I would LOVE to write for it one day.
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Post by Bridgey on Jul 18, 2005 20:18:39 GMT
Okay.
Who drooled and made Johnny Borrell and Dominic from the Other(fucker)s pin-ups?
Bridgey xxx
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Post by Vinegar Tits on Aug 6, 2005 1:17:16 GMT
I loves the Attitude, I do. Whoever thought to put Lee out of Blue on the cover is a genius. Eye-catching in the extreme!
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Post by spinme on Aug 29, 2005 16:37:28 GMT
As for other publications - as freebies go, I quite like a copy of Bent. I fucking love Bent - so much sleaze, so little time, and some of their interviews are fucking impressive for something you can pick up on your way out of a skanky nightclub to read on the bus home (the last issue I read had a three page Johnny Depp interview - obviously, they decided to put a model leaning on the wall with his top off on the cover). Any magazine that uses the slogan 'Get Bent over the counter' gets my vote. As for Attitude - I used to pretend to hate it, because I was seventeen and felt like a leper for never having had sex and not listening to electroclash music, but I've made my peace with it. As a rule, their specials are always really good, even if the youth issue stills makes me bitter that I was a giant spazz when I was the age of most of it's contributors (I feel over-the-hill at twenty - I blame the gay media, etc.). They should do a music spinoff, because their music specials - especially The Pop Issue, with Geri raping a skeleton on the cover - are always worth the cover price, and I daresay there are a fair few of the boys who'd like to see Rufus Wainwright with his top off... Whenever there was a particularly fruity front cover, I'd buy it from my local newsagents, where the old lizard minding the til would frown at me and ask if I wanted it putting in a brown bag. , Michael. xxx
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Post by spinme on Aug 29, 2005 16:51:04 GMT
This magazine makes me wish I was dead straight dead straight. , Michael. xxx
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Post by rockkid on Sept 12, 2005 16:58:10 GMT
I hate the fact that atttitude makes assumptions about gay guys eg what music we like (i like hard-fi,bloc party,white stripes, death cab, SOAD) yet it features charlotte church, Girls Aloud, madonna, kylie and says things like "us gay guys love Girls alond. i don't. it also features women on the cover. why? loaded never has blokes on the cover so why should attitude. it never does sport stuff as well. not all gay men are into fashion.
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Post by Lita on Sept 14, 2005 11:41:46 GMT
But "Attitude" as a concept (gay lifestyle magazine) only really works if you make the assumption that gay people have anything in common other than fancying people of the same sex.
Which is why they focus around the stereotypical ProperGay lifestyle of pop & fashion.
It just wouldn't work if they tried to cover off all possible things that gays might be interested in, because trying to be all things to all people wouldn't work as a magazine.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Sept 26, 2005 18:54:22 GMT
They have a Falcon model on the front of this issue. Never bought it. Me friend always reads it.
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Post by rockkid on Sept 27, 2005 11:58:15 GMT
Lockedintheattic, of course you're right, it has to make assumptions but NEARLY ALL gay mags assume the same things ie that gay men are into pop, Shirley Bassey and kylie. what about the guys who arent? I actually prefer GQ, FHM and Arena (which is ironically more stlyish than the gay mags), str8 mens mags have different focus from each other. Yes they all have sexy woman (as thats all str8 men have in common, but even the sort of women they have is different eg Jordan is too downmarket for GQ but is a Loaded/ Maxim fav). GQ is very metrosexual, so it will have designer clothes whereas Maxim is all about the babes, Loaded is a slightly more humourous than Maxim, whereas Ice is more downmarket. Arena is more upmarket and may occaisionally have an iconic man on the cover. Axm, and Attitude are twins. AEven GT is slipping towards Attitude' s style. Neither has anything on sport - except the GAYS CAN'T DO SPORTS AND THROW LIKE GIRLS EVENT AKA GAY GAMES and when it does its becuase the men are "hot" etc. I even prefer Nuts/ Zoo too
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Post by lowculture.co.uk on Sept 27, 2005 13:28:58 GMT
Loaded is slightly more humourous than Maxim, whereas Ice is more downmarket. I can't agree with that, I'm afraid. Maxim is often unbelievably funny, while Loaded is about as amusing as a bucket of fish heads. It does have Mr Tourette though, so that is something at least.
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Post by rockkid on Sept 27, 2005 15:22:28 GMT
I used to find Maxim funny but it's too repetitve now - that american editor guy is annoying wheras Loaded went through a two year slump now its really good, although the rogues gallery thing should have been dumped months ago
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Post by JonSpice on Oct 24, 2005 1:01:07 GMT
14 pages of Madonna + Sharon Osbourne:Any Queries + How Gay Are Tranny and Susanny? = Attitude fucking rules.
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Post by Rustie Lee on Oct 24, 2005 10:12:48 GMT
I'd say that's why it's rubbish, but chacon a son gout
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Post by Bungle on Jul 31, 2006 20:20:25 GMT
I picked up this month's issue today, and found it less interesting than usual, despite the Scissor Sisters. Even the much hated Jools, who I do like, seemed same-old, same-old. I buy the magazine probably four or five times a year, so don't just pick it up out of habit. I only got this one up because of Aaron (ex-) from V's column. The Top 50 gay albums could have been really good and thoughtful, but was a bit of a mess because there was no explanation of why albums charted where they did (who decided?) and whether they were being judged on gayness or musical quality. Very superficial too - no depth, no asking what makes a 'gay' album, no cross-comparisons.
They also seem to have no idea what an apostrophe (or indeed, a proofreader) is for. So no change there.
(Actually, I'd really like to be an occasional Attitude columnist, as it is generally quite intelligent and well thought out in parts - which makes the slip ups more evident. Better than the other mags of its ilk anyway)
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Post by Ugly Netty on Aug 2, 2006 17:31:12 GMT
I'm disappointed with the new music issue too, having read previous ones.
However, we pissed ourselves laughing at the ads for the scally teen phonelines, "my rough life on a Liverpool council estate" and "prison don't scare me cos I'm a tough scally" etc. Our favourite scenario is "let DSS bloke shag me for a crisis lone" from the "sex wiv me chav mates" ad.
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Post by [james] on Aug 2, 2006 17:33:33 GMT
Me and my ladyfriends love reading the scally sexlines. "Let me mate Digger do me in me sweaty bumhole" or "Me and the Cosby gang 'ave a wank outside the lateshop." What's not to love?
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Post by Ugly Netty on Aug 2, 2006 18:23:08 GMT
"me mams boyfriend prepared me for wot I'd get in prison" I never knew there was a market for chav sex, but there are so many ads for it! Mind you, most of them are from www.scallyteens.co.uk Although my scally mates, who I was reading the magazine with, says they've never heard of the Cosby estate and it must mean Crosby in Liverpool. See, they can't even get the spelling right in the adverts!
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Post by coxy1979 on Aug 3, 2006 10:18:19 GMT
The Danny Dyer interview a couple of months back kept me - erm - interested, but rest of it is usually wank. The letters page is the most self-sanctimonious piece of shit ever though. Do they ever let criticism in?
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Post by klee on Aug 3, 2006 10:37:16 GMT
I never knew there was a market for chav sex, but there are so many ads for it! Mind you, most of them are from www.scallyteens.co.uk Really? But I thought you were well in with many London gays. It's rife down there. For some reason they love their 'rough'. London's dripping with 'scally' nights which are essentially full of merchant bankers and corporate lawyers wearing Ellesse clothing (otherwise known as chav drag) and signet rings. They hang around, roughening their public school vowels hoping to take home some estate cock. I hope they've checked the fine print on their home insurance policies mind, because they might wake up a few consumer durables later, with an STI as the cherry on the cake.
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Post by [james] on Aug 3, 2006 10:44:08 GMT
I can understand wanting a bit of rough now and again but the whole scally fetish (along with gasmasks and gerbilling) has always bewildered me slightly. Who actually wakes up one day and thinks 'There's nothing sexier than someone dirty oike spaffing on my trainers'?
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Aug 3, 2006 17:10:42 GMT
What? Please tell me it doesn't involve gerbils.
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Post by [james] on Aug 3, 2006 17:17:09 GMT
Please tell me it doesn't involve gerbils. I could... but I'd be lying. It's the practise of putting a tube up your arse, sending a gerbil through it and into your arsehold where it nibbles and frockles for your sexual satisfaction. Rumour has it a Hollywood star is into it but I can't remember who (and probably shouldn't say).
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