Destroyer 09!

May 29th, 2009, 16:39 | 9 comments

Destroyer 09

I’m immensily proud to announce Destroyer 09. Why? Because of Nicola, a Swedish amateur photographer who took loads and loads of photos of beautiful boys in Naples in the 1970s. Some of them were published in the gay magazines of the time, but most of them were simply buried in Nicola’s drawers. Until now. In a 22-page double feature, we publish the best of Nicola’s photos in colour and black and white, along with an interview with Nicola himself, where he talks about the uniqueness of Naples and how it all suddenly changed to the worse in the 80s. I cannot enough emphasize the following: You do not want to miss this! D9 is the hottest issue of Destroyer since D2, which featured the 10-page interview with Cosidetto and was sold out only weeks after the release. D2 was printed in 1000 copies, D9 will be printed in 2000 copies. However, be warned that they might go very fast.

As usual, you can purchase Destroyer at Ilovemags.com! D9 will ship mid-June 2009.

The whole content of Destroyer 09 reads:

Nicola of Napoli – 22-page double feature with previously unpublished photos from Naples in the 70s + interview with the photographer.
Reviews of novels by Horatio Alger, Jr., Poppy Z Brite and William Beckford + two new photo books.
Art Bernard – interview with the artist.
Photo reportage: Young wrestlers and young boxers.
Chronik der Schwulen – interview with the author Dietmar Kreutzer.
Contributions by Italian artist duo Luigi & Luca, and by Daniel Björk, editor in chief of the Swedish magazine Rodeo.

Some teasers from the black and white section of Nicola’s photos:

Teenage boy in Naples, 1970s, photo by Nicola, published in Destroyer Magazine

With this I wish you all a great weekend!

Category: Destroyer
Tags: boys, Naples, teenage boys

Germans, sign the ePetition against web censorship

May 26th, 2009, 23:03 | 5 comments

Germany’s family minister Ursula von der Leyen has fought fiercly to implement the same kind of “child porn” blocks on the Internet that have been in use in Sweden since 2005. But unlike in Sweden, the censorship plans have met a huge resistance in Germany. The critics warn that censorship is the wrong way to go, especially since no one will be allowed to check the list of censored sites, which will be maintained by the Federal Criminal Police Office, BKA.

The critics also emphasize how easy it is to circumvent the blocks, meaning those who want “child porn” will find it easier than ever (for example by following BKA’s list, which – like the lists in Scandinavia – will leak), whereas the blocks will let the ordinary netizen conveniently look away. They suggest that “child porn” sites should be taken off the net instead of just marked with a “stop” sign - löschen statt verstecken (remove instead of hiding).

Needless to say, “child porn” is just the noble cause that the politicians use to implement a smooth system to censor improper sites. Oscar Swartz has shown (in Swedish, but the pictures speak for themselves) how sites with bonsai trees ended up on the Swedish censor list. Also, The Pirate Bay ended up on the list once, but was removed after protests, as well as other non-cp sites.

Destroyer’s concern is not of the löschen statt verstecken kind. That slogan may make people believe that there is actually a lot of child porn around on the internet, which is not the case. (Or is it? Show us the säuglings, Ursula!) Instead, we are concerned that innocent content like that of our magazine might end up on the lists, since no one can check them, and since gay content has a tradition of being censored by the powers at be. A Finnish guy showed that less than one percent of the links on the Finnish censor list contained real cp. Whatever that meant, because how do you define child porn? That’s the given question to him, but even more so to the BKA and the politicians.

Anyway, if you live in Germany, I think you should take action against these measures by signing the ePetition at Deutscher Bundestag. It’s a bit complicated, because you have to register, but do take the time.

My Destroyer: Cyril Laurent

May 19th, 2009, 15:09 | 2 comments

mydestroyer_cyril

This is just a tiny part of the shelves of Destroyer’s photo book editor Cyril Laurent, which also include David Hamilton’s Tendres Cousines and the very hard to get The Boy – A Photographic Essay, as well as Bernard Faucon, Bernard Alapetite’s California and the complete works of Cosidetto. I also spotted classics like Pierre Joubert and Wilhelm von Gloeden.

On the cropped piece published here, there are magazines like XY Photo, Dazed & Confused and Electric Youth magazine, which was reviewed in D8. But I also spot, just behind the Destroyer magazines, Thomas Böhme’s fantastic Jungen vor Zweitausend (reviewed in D1) and … isn’t it the art catalogue of a recent exhibition by Georg Weise (Destroyer 06)? I’m very impressed.

Where is your Destroyer? Send a photo of it to destroyermag (a) gmail.com.

Category: Destroyer
Tags: My Destroyer

Alexander Rybak – NOT shirtless!

May 18th, 2009, 21:37 | 1 comment

Someone’s popular:

Searching Alexander Rybak

(This is what people searched for when they ended up at this blog.)

Category: Music

Hot doggy

May 17th, 2009, 14:07 | 2 comments

gossigossi

Erik asked me of a translation of this post. Jesus, Erik! Those drawings, and the text, gave me really bad vibes. Bad energy! To compensate I offer my own drawing.

Category: Art

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