Butt #31
170 x 240 mm, 116 pages
London, UK & Amsterdam, Netherlands
First published 2001
Creators and publishers: Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom
The ‘veritable home of faggotry’ returns for the autumn with its typically arousing 31st issue, themed Freedom. Inside, the pastel pink pages feature the likes of Arca, Leilah Weintraub, Max Arion, Soufiane Abarbi and more, as an ‘exciting group of contemporary queens celebrate their definition of freedom big and small.’
To recap, a little Butt-shaped history class: ‘In 2001, Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom started Butt, the pocket-size magazine by, for and about homosexuals. Flash forward twenty-nine issues, three calendars and fifteen parties later, Butt is still the place where gays can speak candidly about their ideas, work and sex lives.’
Meanwhile, of course, Gert and Jop have launched Fantastic Man, The Gentlewoman and The Happy Reader…