Butt (magazine)


BUTT was a quarterly magazine for gay men, founded in 2001 and edited by Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom. In 2005, The Guardian named BUTT as one of its top twenty magazines., it had an estimated worldwide circulation of 24,000. In 2014, Taschen released BUTT Forever, an anthology of some of the magazine's highlights since its inception.
The magazine, originating in the Netherlands, featured interviews, articles, and advertisements and illuminated upon trends and lifestyles within the male homosexual community.
The magazine published photography and interviews with renowned gay artists, and became well-known with its very first issue, which showed German fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm in nude portraits taken by Wolfgang Tillmans. Since its first issue in May 2001, BUTT has featured gay artists such as Casey Spooner, Michael Stipe, John Waters, Heinz Peter Knes, Edmund White, Terence Koh, Walter Pfeiffer, and Slava Mogutin.
Readers submitted interviews, letters, photographs, or articles. Subscribers were referred to as "Buttheads" and could join the Butthead community officially through the magazine's website.
The magazine was available worldwide. In the United States and the United Kingdom, it was available in American Apparel stores, among other places. It ceased publication in 2011.
BUTT has been praised for its unabashed sexual and non-sexual portrayals of men, which emphasize equal opportunity in depictions of all people in print. The magazine has been lauded for its unique, candid approach to interviews, which may be done by anyone.