Smash! Destroyer’s summer issue ships on Wednesday - and you can order it now!

Destroyer 07 contains:

• A French Legend. 10-page interview with Bernard Alapetite, publisher of the legendary magazine Beach Boy, along with plenty of photos.
• Vintage Pride. Feature on vintage gay magazines. You’ll be amazed by the diversity and pride the gay press showed in the sixties and seventies.
• Chennai Boys. Photo reportage from India by Francis Cardinal.
• Something Unspoken. The art of Peter Schweizer and Erik Visser.
• Black Sea Beauty. Photo reportage featuring a young demigod.
• Interview with Milkboys-Josh and column by Inkplum-Sid.
• Black Sea Beauty. Photo reportage featuring a young demigod.
• Plus reader letters, Obsession, book and film reviews - and a special print effect for no other reason than to spread some extra happiness to you, my readers!

Several of the core Destroyer readers have demanded I offer transparent plastic sleeves to protect their little treasures, especially in the US, where the DIN A5 format is not a standard.

Well, here they are! Made to fit and open on one short end. They are available in the Destroyer shop separately or in a package of 10.

As of today Destroyer is available at ILoveMags.com!

You can pay with credit card (Visa or Master Card) and the magazines ship immediately upon payment.

I Love Mags will from now on be the only way to order Destroyer.

I wish you happy shopping and would also like to thank everyone who used to pay through bank transfer or by sending cash to the post box - and those of you who paid through one of the many payment solutions used since the start in 2006. Those days are now just a nostalgic memory!

Go directly to Destroyer’s page at I Love Mags!

While waiting for Destroyer 07, here’s an interview with me that the Finnish art magazine Kasino A4 published in April 2007 (issue 4/5). Click to enlarge.

Today we’ve upgraded the Destroyer blog to Wordpress 2.5.1. I think everything went smoothly. Let me also apologize for the lack of action here recently.

Me and my friend Oscar Swartz took the car from Prague to deliver several hundred copies of Destroyer 06 to Destroyer’s German distribution central. (Most copies were shipped from Prague yesterday, but since many readers live in Germany, Destroyer is also shipped from there.)

Despite both Germany and the Czech Republic are part of the Schengen Agreement, we were waived to the side by a police car at the border crossing. It was a routine check. The officer asked us if we had any drugs or weapons in the vehicle, and we said we didn’t. Then he searched the car thoroughly with a flashlight. His face didn’t reveal what he thought when he found seven boxes filled with Destroyer Magazine in the trunk.

A male and a female officer joined him. They took a copy of Destroyer with them, along with our passports, to the police car. Oscar and I waited in our car. I was counting the minutes, since I thought every extra minute made the situation more embarrassing for the cops.

After about 20 minutes one of them came back with our passports and the copy of Destroyer that they had borrowed. ”Alles klar!” he said and let us go. All clear!

I retell this little story since I know some readers are afraid that Destroyer walks the line of the law. Now you know it doesn’t.

Yes, you read right. On February 18th, 2008, this 63-page thesis about Destroyer was published by Stockholm University:

The Beautiful Boy, The Destroyer: Sexradikalers förhandlingar om tidskriften Destroyer – en intervjustudie om anständiga bögar, fula gubbar och sexualiserade barn

The author Reb Kerstinsdotter has interviewed a number of self-proclaimed sex-radicals about their views on the journal. I am interviewed as well. From the abstract:

Through the collection and analysis of negotiations surrounding the gay magazine Destroyer, the intention of this paper is to identify norms of sexuality within a contemporary sex-radical discourse. These negotiations are collected from interviews with individuals whom, at the time of the interview, consider themselves or their politics sex-radical. In order to allow for a more general understanding of the context in which these negotiations have come about, material about Swedish law is also included in this text, together with the interview material, and serves as a base for analysis through the application of Gayle Rubin’s theory on the hierarchical value system of sexuality.

Download the whole thesis (9,7 MB) at Stockholm University Academic Archive (in Swedish).

Destroyer 06 features an interview with Reb Kerstinsdotter.

Dear hooligans! Here’s a little preview of Destroyer 06, best enjoyed with a handful of wild Ride On Time remixes! The magazine will be shipped next Friday (7th March 2008) to everyone who has ordered. (Order Destroyer here.) I wish you all a great weekend!

Voilà!

Ships on March 7th, 2008 (order it here).

Beloved readers!

After a two month delay, I have finally uploaded the 52 pages of Destroyer 06 to the printing plant’s servers. Now it’s gonna be ripped, printed, folded, cut and UV varnished, and then sent out in the beginning of March to readers who have ordered it. You can actually order it now to be sure to receive it as soon as it’s off the press - there will be a cover on the order page in just a few days.

1 2 3 4 - let me hear you scream if you want some more!

Wish you all a great weekend!