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    Mino reimagines your favorite cartoon characters as queer
    Joshua M, Editor-in-Chief
    • Jan 27, 2018
    • 5 min

    Mino reimagines your favorite cartoon characters as queer

    words/photography: Joshua M. Jenkins model/art by: Mino Sanchez (@cocteautwinks) Last May, an old (tattoo) artist buddy of mine from college posted a photo of one of his drawings on Instagram. It was a picture of Bert from Sesame Street wearing a sweater with Garfield on the front, captioned with, "WHO CARES". I had wanted more tattoos for awhile (I had two at the time, both of which I can best describe as "meh"), so seeing these two beloved characters from my childhood with
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    Luke Austin is calling out racism on his Instagram and I am living for it.
    Joshua M, Editor-in-Chief
    • Feb 21, 2017
    • 6 min

    Luke Austin is calling out racism on his Instagram and I am living for it.

    Two years ago, gay photographer Luke Austin moved to the United States to pursue a now successful career in photography. His muses, typically sun-kissed, naked, and queer men, represent a gaze of the male form many queer men don't see outside of a 2am romp on PornHub. When I first discovered his work in 2012, however, I was both enamored and disheartened. His stunning portrayals of the male body played a large role in diminishing my own body dysmorphic disorder (big nose, oil
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    Fashion: Illustrated
    Joshua M, Editor-in-Chief
    • Oct 23, 2016
    • 7 min

    Fashion: Illustrated

    My pre-summer (May) New York vacation this year was, thus far, no less than ideal. I shot and interviewed for The Set Standard's debut feature, ran into and met the talented illustrator Richard Haines outside a Starbucks in Soho, and uncomfortably laughed myself to tears at Comedy Cellar. Now, it's Sunday morning - approximately 1:00am. I stand idly outside of Metropolitan - a bustling gay bar in Williamsburg whose bathrooms have seen more blow than a wind farm. I inhaled my
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