Not only Blue Premiere Issue

Sydney : Studio Magazines, February 1995. Issue 00. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 154 pages, extensively illustrated with high quality photography, occasional light handling marks a very good copy. The Premiere issue of the groundbreaking magazine aimed at a gay male audience, each magazine essentially a photobook of the highest quality, with articles, interviews and editorial on issues relating to gay Australian men from the mid-nineties to the mid-noughties. 'Blue+ was a bi-monthly gay men's magazine from Australia that featured artistically composed images of nude and semi-nude men taken by top photographers from around the world. It also contained a variety of interviews and articles on art, films, music, culture, and travel. The magazine's format was oversized and it was sturdily bound on heavy paper; Blue was conceived as a "coffee table magazine." The magazine was launched in February 1995 under the name "(not only) Blue." It later changed to simply "Blue," and then in 2007 styled itself as "Blue+" '- Wikipedia "Blue's agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues" - the editor.The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others. This issue includes illustrated articles on William Yang, Ian Roberts, Pierre et Gilles and other gay artists, writers, sportspeople and celebrities.…