Nike re-launches Destroyer Journal

January 29th, 2011, 12:56 | No comments

Nike Destroyer Journal

Nike, the shoe company, has published a magazine called Destroyer Journal. They write:

Introducing the first issue of the Destroyer Journal, a large format newsprint that features different looks at our holiday icon, the Nike Sportswear Destroyer Jacket with athlete interviews, an introduction to our local NSW crew shot by Tim Barber, and a feature on Stadium MFG, the latest bespoke installation at Bowery Stadium.

For those who didn’t know: Destroyer Journal was the original name of the gay magazine that became more known as Destroyer Magazine over its four years’ lifetime from 2006 to 2010. We’re still registered as Destroyer with the ISSN organisation and we’re obviously the owners of the domain Destroyerjournal.com.

The energy never dies, but who would have known it would be reborn this fast, and in this shape? We here at the old Destroyer Journal wish Nike good luck with their endeavour!

Category: Destroyer, Misc
Tags: Destroyer Journal, magazine, Nike

Discussion on Davidson’s The Greeks and Greek Love

January 2nd, 2010, 15:14 | No comments

Don’t miss the recent discussion in Bryn Mawr Classical Review on James Davidson’s book The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007):

Destroyer printed a review of Davidson’s book in issue 08 – the reviewer Eva-Carin Gerö was critical. A few quotes:

In his monograph The Greeks and Greek Love, ancient historian James Davidson sets out to do justice to Greek same-sex love the way he sees it, as a complex, multi-faceted phenomenon, polemicizing against the “twisted” theories of Dover, Foucault and followers as marked by “sodomania” – an obsession with issues of sexual dominance and anal penetration. Davidson argues that this is a one-sided, anachronistic view only based on the idiosynchrasies of modern scholars.

Instead, he coins the term “homobesottedness,” defined as a passion and a strong interest between men, in particular for younger men. This permeated Greek culture, though he stresses it was not necessarily sexual, and certainly not necessarily so in the terms of “power penetration” of Dover and Foucault. Davidson wants to show that ancient same-sex love could be both tender, mutual and lasting, even resembling marriage.

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And entertaining as Davidson’s marathons are, his arguments are often highly speculative.

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Davidson sees his research task as as a sort of “archaeology,” but sometimes his interprations get so aery and maverick that one wonders if he’s really serious. Parallels can be drawn to the debate over how to interpret the archaeological findings in Hisarlık/Troy, which raised the question: How freely can you speculate in the fields of history and archaeology, and how do you separate the serious interpretations from Schaumschlägerei designed for controversy?

Category: Misc, News & Politics
Tags: academia, greek love, James Davidson

How to become a boy

December 20th, 2009, 18:14 | No comments

We have all sympathy for those who are so obsessed with boys that they actually want to become one themselves.

One step closer to fulfilling this dream, if you have breasts, is a breast binder. T-Kingdom provides plenty of models, and although not all of you will end up looking as good as the model on this picture (but that’s true for all fashion retail), chances are you will feel as good.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Category: Misc
Tags: binder, boys, breast binder, ftm, transsexualism

Too gay to be gay

November 28th, 2009, 16:07 | 1 comment

This magazine has often remarked that the modern gay movement has shrunk the gay identity in order to make it easier for society to accept homosexuality. A brilliant example of how tight this straitjacket of an identity has become is provided by Abel Rodriguez:

Hundreds of members of the gay community are so upset with Adam Lambert’s sexually-charged gay orgy performance on the American Music Awards show that they want him banned from the gay community.

Mr Rodriguez reports that:

A spinoff group of GLAAD known as GLOCK or Gays and Lesbians Opposed to Constant Kissing stated that Lambert’s orgytorial performance set gay marriage back two years.

GLOCK spokesperson Bippy Bouquet said that watching Adam’s performance scared a lot of gay and lesbian couples who were going to tie the knot.

Read the whole story here.

Yes, it’s satire of course. But to be frank I didn’t realize that until the end (I found the article through Google News so I didn’t see the source immediately) – I even googled GLOCK. And that just shows how spot on this satire is.

Category: Misc, News & Politics
Tags: gay, gay culture, gay sex, GLAAD

A joker in the David poll!

September 5th, 2009, 19:40 | 6 comments

Five David statues

To spice up the David poll (only 55 persons have voted as I write this), I decided to add a fifth combatant! I know it’s not really fair, but nevermind. Let’s see what the David of Rolf Biebl and Clemens Gröszer (East Germany, 1989) does for the poll action!

David und Goliath by Rolf Biebl and Clemens Gröszer (1989)

Category: Art, Misc
Tags: Antonin Mercié, boy statues, Clemens Gröszer, communist art, Donatello, Michelangelo, Rolf Biebl, Verrocchio

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Now shipping: The Destroyer book

"What this slender book does is chart the magazine’s history and backlash, presenting a calm rational response to the hysterical screams of paedophilia. It is, on the whole, quite convincing." -Gay Times, June 2011