Queer magazines of the early 2000s still mostly stuck with the airbrushed, Ken-doll look that was ubiquitous in West Hollywood and Chelsea. Since then, BUTT has featured gay artists such as Casey Spooner, Michael Stipe, John Waters, Heinz Peter Knes, Edmund White, Terence Koh, Walter Pfeiffer, and Slava Mogutin.īUTT's aesthetic was memorable for the way it sexualized men you'd find on the street or subway they had body hair, teeth that weren't perfect, even paunch. Though no longer making new content in print or online, the “infamous pink periodical” makes sure you’re 18 before entering its website - which is just as infamously pink.īUTT featured photography and interviews with renowned gay artists, such as German fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm, whose nude portraits - taken by Wolfgang Tillmans - appeared in the magazine’s first issue in May 2001. “The pocket-size magazine by, for and about homosexuals,” was founded in the Netherlands in 2001 by Gert Jonkers and Jep van Beenekom.
