Artfancy:  
To date, artist Joshua Thorson has produced two issues (of six planned) of queer and socialist art magazine Artfancy. Issue 1 is a loose portfolio, featuring four artists. Dean Daderko and K8 Hardy document a talent show, reproducing snippets from a digital message board. Tara Mateik's contribution includes a diagnostic for transgender people disenfranchised by the signs on bathroom doors. Thorson asks, "... not whether the situation is art or not, but: is, perhaps, this situation I am now experiencing somehow more Real, does it have depth and life, or is it just consumption?" Following that, the second issue, recently released, is themed "Meaning." Thorson produces the magazine in New York.
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basso:  
Basso magazin is a crossover zine between sex and art, put together from contributions from the members of basso family to a given subject. basso magazin doesn’t have consumer friendly periodical standards such as page numbers or editorial introductions, it can be seen as a montage of ideas in text and image, put together to an intuitive flow. Each issue is printed on colored paper and wrapped like contraband. Highly stylized in a pan-European Gothic style, issues are generally composed of contributions from the members of the basso family (neighbors and basso boys) and other celebrated artists. Issues are oriented around themes, such as "Sexual Ambiguity" and "Perfectly You."
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Bedwetter:  
Chris Russell's Bedwetter features a single unifying element over the entire production run: the logo of an overgrown pissing man/boy, naked except for sneakers. The materials Russell used to create each issue grew increasingly eclectic and varied as the series progressed. Construction paper, glue, and staples hold together one issue (#11). Another issue (#3) completely falls apart when it's opened. The reader is meant to sift through the ephemera where they end up. The content of the magazine is a hodge-podge of short stories, xeroxed images, collages, and handwritten text.
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Brute:  
Brute is a Swedish fagzine made by Daniel Björk and Nicklas Hultman. The magazine consists of interviews, photography, and drawings. Thus far, the black and white mag has included interviews with Dick Wadd, Lowe Sweger, Antony and the Johnsons, and Captain Comatose.
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BUTT:  
BUTT Magazine began as a primarily Dutch-language quarterly produced by journalist/editor Gert Jonkers and designer/editor Jop Van Bennekon. The trademark pink pages and American Typewriter typeface are adapted from vintage issues of Boyd McDonald's Straight to Hell and Didier Lestrade's Magazine. The content balances the egalitarian fantasies and esoteric rites of a constantly changing gay sensibility. In the first issue, the editors cheekily included unpaid reproductions of high fashion advertisements. By the second issue, that advertising space had been purchased by the fashion houses themselves. In Issue 1, Bernard Wilhelm worn torn tighty whiteys and revealed his first wet dream, beginning a long line of casually probing interviews. In the second issue, Jonkers interviews Marcelo Krasilcic, who would become a magazine fixture. Today, along with original artists' works, the magazine regularly features interviews with and content by gay celebrities and public figures including Wolfgang Tillmans, Gus Van Sant, Stephin Merritt, Ryan McGinley, Paul Sepuya, AA Bronson, Michael Stipe, and others. The magazine content isn't exclusive to celebrities. Pin-ups and covers regularly feature 'everyday men.' The BUTT website supports a fan/reader community of Buttheads as well.
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DIK Fagazine:  
DIK Fagazine is the first and the only artistic magazine from Central and Eastern Europe concentrated on homosexuality and masculinity. Bilingual (Polish and English, published in Poland) DIK Fagazine is addressed to everyone interested in arts and men. Founded in 2005 by artist Karol Radziszewski and designed by Monika Zawadzka, it is distributed worldwide in selected bookshops, concept stores and galleries. DIK includes content by Kasia Kozyra, Wilhelm Sasnal, Pawel Althamer, and others. The magazine also maintains a blog of photos, events, and exhibitions.
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Fanzini:  
Fanzini was produced by John Jack Baylin, originally as a semi-faux fanzine to John Dowd, a handsome New York leatherman with a physique reminiscent of a "Tom of Finland" character. Dowd himself provided many of the collages that appear in Fanzini, especially in the earlier issues. These works tend to combine Walt Disney characters and leathermen. During publication (1972-1975) Fanzini had a significant presence in Toronto, due to its connection to General Idea, FILE Magazine, and Art Metropole. Many local artists appear under pseudonyms in the zine's pages. Fanzini ended its run just as the Punk movement exploded.
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Farm.:  
Farm was produced and edited by Hudson of Feature Inc. The zine had a run of seven-issues, and featured early erotic stories by David Sedaris, Dennis Cooper, and the editor, Hudson.
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Fashionfashion:  
No matter how stylish k8 looks in her homemade fashions–this zine is strictly "a non-commercial fashion magazine." Fashionfashion is a grainy, humorous zine of self-portraits, intended to intervene in the standard sexist representations typical of fashion photography. Performance artist and member of the collective LTTR, k8 Hardy also provides scribbled, unpracticed texts, with words scratched out and re-edited.
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For Lonely Adults Only:  
For Lonely Adults Only, created by Regis Trigano, is a picture diary that combines parts of the editor's life that are typically separated: his sex life; his family/home life; and his leisure life. For example, Issue 2 documents mountain vacation recently taken by Trigano. The magazine began production in 2008.
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Handbook:  
Handbook is a contemporary convergence of zine and chapbook. In Volume 2, Issue 1, Chet Dillfy asks you to get by "all those hot bods and really big dicks" to consider seriously whether 2007 was, in fact, the gayest year in history, as some have argued. After all, 2007 marked the launch of quarterly pictorial Handbook, celebrating the bodies and attitudes of three men each issue. They year 2007 also marked the passing fo the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (which, albeit did not acknowledge the rights of transgender people); the outing of bathroom cruising Senator Larry Craig; and celebrated a promising crop of Democratic nominees in 2008. And then, of course, there's Joshua, Kyle, and Giovanni taking off their clothes. Handbook also hosts reader content on its website, including photographs and vintage, voyeuristic super-8 style movies.
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Hate Magazine:  
Identifying commonalities in the "fanzine re-revolution" and interest in tabloids, Hate is one of the few zines to deal explicitly with fandom as a type of media spectacle. The magazine was founded, written, and art-directed by Calvin Holbrook in 2002 and was initially printed entirely for free using color printers at IPC Media. Materials from Hate have been exhibited at London at White Cubicle and SPACE Studios. Like any other UK tabloid, Hate is dominated by pop figures. Celebrities, fans, and the mechanisms that encourage adoration receive Holbrook's acerbic collage treatment. Posh and Becks are frequent victims; Naomi Campbell is named "cunt of the issue" (6), and the editor interviews Matthew Pateman (of retired and forgotten British band Bad Boys Inc.), who discusses looking like Antonio Banderas in his youth in another issue.
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Hung:  
Hung is an unbound collection of papers (edited by Sir Rodney Sur and Derek Jackson) dealing primarily, though not exclusively, with the lives of queer black people. Where earlier zines dealt by necessity with the connection between editors and readers via the mail, Hung is a particularly effective example of technology's impact on recent zine production. Issue 2 publishes an email correspondence from Elmer Sheldon to Derek Jackson about prejudices facing queer black men. Issue 2 also features Alex Donic's drawings of aroused police officers, and Bruce Benderson's eulogy for Times Square, written in 1997 in the midst of Giuliani's cleanup. The same issue also features an excerpt of Kalup Linzy's Meesha and an interview of photographer Craig Houser by Derek Jackson. Houser attributes tokenism for his inclusion in BUTT Magazine and discusses the term "post-Black." A brief explanation of Hung's political and cultural objectives: "We are not tied to the commercialization of punk music; however, we certainly share affinities with its culture. When Derek and I were thinking about a target audience for our zine we thought, naturally, of homosexuals like ourselves, albeit with a twist that would really speak fully to how we wanted to be identified."
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J.D.s:  
The fetishistic status of an issue of J.D.s works against the DIY, off-the-cuff qualities which brought the zine to life. Published from 1985 to 1991, J.D.s is the prototype of homemade, unstylized, photocopied queer zines, influencing the efforts of countless zine makers, artists, and publishers. Although G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce (creators of J.D.s) were handling decidedly uncategorizable material, the cultural consequences of the zine include the heightened visibility of a "queer punk" movement. In Toronto, Jones lived across the street from a bookstore that carried scuzzy crime tabloids like Midnight (which covered hustlers, drag queens, club goers, and random juvenile delinquents). Jones imagined that J.D.s would combine the style of other punk zines, tabloids, and sex images. Over an eight issue run, contributors included Jena von Brucker, Anonymous Boy, Vaginal Davis, Dennis Cooper, Tab Twain, Regi Mentle, Carrie McNinch, Donny The Punk, LaBruce, and Jones.
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Kaiserin:  
Bi-annual magazine KAISERIN (published in Paris by Didier Fitan and Arnaud-Pierre Fourtané) declares its editorial aim "to re-establish the art magazine as something militant and committed." Each issue is presented in the format of a portfolio, featuring numbered works of drawings, photographs, and text. Although working in a glossy format, KAISERIN's independence, queer sensibility, reduced size, selection of young artists, and sense of the political male body put it in the trajectory of a queer zine. The contributors to each issue produce work organized around a central theme such as "Collective Ecstasy," "New York," and "Failure." Past contributors include Derek Jackson, Nicklas Hultman, Slava Mogutin, Christian Siekmeier, Themba Bhebhe, Norma Jeane, Jorge Pedro Núñez, and many others.
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