Adrian Lourie’s 16-Year Archive of Unretouched Gay Pin-Ups

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Looking Back at 16 Years of the Scruffiest and Hottest Unretouched Men in Print. Get help Password recovery Recover your password your email A password will be e-mailed to you. Art Looking Back at 16 Years of the Scruffiest and Hottest Unretouched Men in Print Adrian Lourie reflects on 16 years of unretouched gay pin-ups and his new archival book.

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• Watch the Latest Stories Here I sat down with Lourie to talk about how a DIY, tongue-in-cheek project turned into a career-defining legacy, how body standards have shifted, and why unretouched photography...
• Adrian Lourie Watching Queer Culture Evolve Looking back through sixteen years of images, Lourie noticed how much his subjects have changed since 2010.
• I love seeing how beard styles, clothes, particularly underwear, and the way guys present themselves have evolved.
• Guys embracing their size, shape, identity and age is very liberating to document." He also noticed a shift in how comfortable people are in front of the lens, particularly as trans representation grew...
• "But seriously, it's always been important to me to show guys as they really are, without smoothing away the things that make them individual.

What to take from it

"Don't get me wrong, I can get a bit weak for a gym boy, but I wanted to see hairy guys, dad bods and all the other types of men I found sexy being put out there too, because they're just as sexy. "Initially, I was just really keen to produce something in print, because at that moment it felt like that was becoming a disappearing art. Adrian Lourie Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Copy URL When Adrian Lourie launched meat back in 2010, he just wanted to make a physical zine before print media disappeared completely.

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• Years, a retrospective book collecting almost two decades of independent gay publishing.
• Adrian Lourie A Counter to Mainstream Media From the very beginning, Lourie wanted meat to feel raw and anti-design.
• He was looking for a specific type of guy in gay magazines at the time, but he rarely saw them represented.
• "Not seeing the kinds of men I fancied in the mainstream gay media," Lourie told me when asked what drew him to shooting everyday men over professional models.

Details worth keeping

Josh Azevedo September 3, 2026 7:22 am PDT 4 min. I think it's still relevant and important today. "I had absolutely no idea, and this is actually my fifth book!" Lourie laughed.

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