One never knows what treasures they might find in an attic. David K. Johnson, associate professor of history at the University of South Florida, was researching his first book in the attic of a 1960s ...

We all have memories from a young age of walking down the underwear aisle in a department store, simultaneously scandalized and stimulated by images on the packaging of buff men stuffed into their ...

Bob Mizer (Athletic Model Guild), ca. 1950, from Physique by Vince Aletti (Image: SPBH Editions / MACK, 2025; courtesy of Bob Mizer, Athletic Model Guild, SPBH Editions, and MACK.) Before Grindr ...

Introduction -- Emerging from the muscle magazines: Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild -- Selling gay books: Donald Webster Cory's "business with a conscience" -- The Grecian Guild: imagining a gay past ...