40 Photos of the Majestically Hairy Dudes of Pinups

Christopher Schulz of the magazine posted this message on Facebook in July: 

“Pinups No. 20 will be the final issue of Pinups. When Pinups began nearly 10 years ago, I didn’t plan beyond the first issue. It was an experiment that took on a life of its own, evolving with each successive issue. About five years ago I decided that the twentieth issue would be the last, and approached the remaining issues from that perspective.

“The early issues took cues from mid-20th century gay male pictorials. The photography was rough around the edges; living rooms, basements, and back yards became makeshift photo studios. The subjects, friends of mine, were types of men I didn’t see in print at the time.

“New projects will be announced through this account — they just won’t be called Pinups, maybe they won’t be black-and-white, or 8” x 10”, or 56 pages, but they will be part of a broader continuum.”

So while the end of a delicious era is here, the good news is that backstock of Pinups magazine has been reduced drastically. Hurry.

PINUPS SALE: From now until December 11, all Pinups magazines are 50 percent off at PinupsMag.com.

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Pinups is a queer zine — each issue a pictorial of a nude male subject. The zine can be dismembered and the loose pages tiled to reveal a single, monumental image of the subject. The zine's two states conflict, resulting in visual and narrative abstraction: a dialogue between its physical structure and its printed content. Created by Christopher Schulz.