Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1958.

Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.

Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1957.

Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.

Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1957.

Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.

Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1956.

Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.

Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1956.

Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.

Bruce of Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Bruce of Los Angeles, 1966.

The penultimate issue of physique photography of LA bodybuilders by Bruce Bellas (1909-1974), more commonly known as Bruce of Los Angeles. The final two issues in a slightly larger format. In this issue: John Bennett, Billy Parks, Ralph Kleiner, Frank Nisi, Big John Clark, Tom Vanselow, Jerry Rogers by Mel Roberts, Chuck Baker by Milo, Dale Hepburn, John Quincy Adams by Milo, Bill Melby, Bob Jackson, Dean Densman, Dennis Densman, LeRoy Williams & Elmer Matt.

Bruce of Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Bruce of Los Angeles, 1958.

Single issue of physique photography of LA bodybuilders by Bruce Bellas (1909-1974), more commonly known as Bruce of Los Angeles. In this issue: Meet Jerry Roquemore, Mr. Apollo contest, Edgar Hayes, Harry Miller, Cowboys of the West, and Steven Wengryn.