The Gay Book

So anyone who has followed this blog from the start (all 4 of you), knows that originally it was expo-ing a book in which I would paste my male-focused straight porn into when I was a closeted teen. The point being that so I could kind of jerk of to pictures of guys without feeling like so much of a fag.
Obviously this is something I've gotten over. Somewhere in the interim between masturbating to pictures of hottish guys fucking girls and writing a blog about a gay porn there came "the gay book".
The main difference between the two "projects" is that
A) I knew I was gay and was relatively comfortable about it when I did my second cut and paste project.
B) I had developed my "gay sensibility" enough to not use "Post-it"s and masking tape to hold my craft together.

This version of my insanity was conceived and realized during a bizarre weekend where I was stranded in Illinois.
I had to go to central Illinois for a grad school interview and there was one of those completely inexplicable travel restrictions that reduced the fare by 500$ if I stayed over a Saturday night, even though the interview was on a Thursday.
So I had this completely unreasonable amount of downtime in a weird boring city (which btw I would ultimately spend 4 years in). So my solution to deal with that downtime was to bring along several bottles of Rush and a bunch of porn mags to try and condense them into a volume I could hide in plain sight.
My volume of choice was this issue of Muscle and Fitness:

It's no secret that muscle mags have a homoerotic aspect, particularly if you lean towards brawny types like I do. When no real porn was available, I've gone there. So it seemed like a logical medium to work with.
The "spreads" that I came up with were hybrids of the porn and the muscleheads already in the magazine. I think I did okay aesthetically considering how much beer and poppers I consumed during my odd Illinois bender.

The first two pages were this ad for some weight loss pill:

And the lovely Steve Kelso, from a Colt ad:

Not too different huh?

More to come....