Comments on: XY Magazine returns for now

By: Corey

Corey — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:47:42 +0000

FUK xy magazine, i ordered an issue about 3 years ago, never recieved it even after many many e-mails asking for my magazine or my MONEY, neither, shame on xy, and i’m glad it failed, you don’t BURN your customers

By: Matt Lukanowski

Matt Lukanowski — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:30:44 +0000

What a shame…xy magazine helped me through so many rough times when i was 16. Im now 27 years old and high school is long over with but to know that xy is having trouble printing up issues makes me pretty sad. Ian Cummings always had something good to say and at that time in my life it was really all i had to feel free about who i was. XY THE NEW GENERATION NEEDS YOU.

MATTHEW

By: Dartagnon Puissant

Dartagnon Puissant — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:24:23 +0000

I read Gay Teen’s comment and found it to be SO true. I started a website 15 years ago that dealt with EVERYTHING including gay teens and the hits I had on the teen page were double of the adult section. The page was SO popular that it was accepted into GayEurope.com and soon gay people from all over the world were coming to visit, which ticked off the local hierarchy and soon I was arrested and the site died as I went through all sorts of trials and tortures in jail as if it was Nazi Germany.

I went to see if gaymonterey.com was still available but some straight corporations had taken it over but they left one open and my goal is to resurrect the website since I now live 1000 miles away from that place and make it bigger and better than ever. The great thing was that even though it was a local website it attracted emails from all over the world from teens who were frustrated and suicidal and I would be up almost every night until the sun came up answering and helping people and convincing them that suicide was NOT the answer. I LOVED that job and it was so rewarding when I found out that I had saved 8 people from suicide. The local district attorney just exclaimed “Why would you SAVE them when they are going to have a life of misery and torture and eventually be murdered anyway!” Is that SICK or what?
My website above is all about 2012 and Ascension. Quite the different tack but I REALLY want to bring back gaymonterey. That would ROCK~!

Peace y’all,

I AM
Dartagnon (AskTheDragon.org)

By: Andrew Blunt

Andrew Blunt — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:11:57 +0000

XY is a great magazine however most teens find it extremely hard to go out and buy a hard copy of the magazine (as its akward and can be really expensive) this then just means that teens can access only the magazine that are online and then most teens are cbf to read all that. But on that note there is a really cool website called http://www.spreemagazine.com which has fantastic design, is completely free and uses videos and interactive elements to get their message across and really entertain you! Its the best gay teen magazine on the net.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:37:27 +0000

Well – I got a copy for the first time on a college break trip to California and loved it. Came back to the UK and immediately subscribed and ordered a full set of back issues (at the end of 2006), having e-mailed to check there was no problem shipping to the UK. Payment duly taken from my credit card – then nothing. Feb 2007 I used the enquiry form to say “where’s the stuff” and got a short note back saying “we are having some problems with the back issues, but they are on the way”. Send another query in April 2007 – no reply – same in July.

To date nothing has ever arrived, and I stopped getting responses from them in April 2007.

$700 down the drain! Well – I’ve done my bit for keeping them going.

Not an experience to inspire faith and confidence.

No back issues – and no magazine ever arrived

By: fredrick amacher

fredrick amacher — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:52:09 +0000

xy magazine gave me an outlet and helped me become who i am (a proud fierce drag queen) and a advocate for troubled gay teens, i remember reading the very first issue of xy,i was 15 at the time. ahhh the memories lol.but i cant see paying almost 10 bucks for a magazine anymore since there are other outlets

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:20:43 +0000

“XY” was a beacon of hope to me when I first started college. Having come out to myself my senior year of high school and making an escape to Santa Barbara to go to college, I thought I’d be starting life anew. And while it was exciting to be there, there weren’t nearly as many out gay people as I’d hoped.

You cannot deride it for its irregular circulation when it has been plagued with advertising difficulties due to its alleged “illicit” nature. As the editor once pointed out, you would see the same types of shirtless or playfully suggestive photos in a teen mag like “TigerBeat”, but because this one is for young, gay men, it automatically makes anyone who reads it a chickenhawk.

Can you see how skewed this perspective is?

I am amazed and happy that “XY” has made it to 2008. It was and is the only magazine of its kind, which says a lot about gay media outlets, but also about the times. As life becomes more about being online and the internet has been a lifeline for many isolated gay teens, it would make sense to see “XY” or something like it progress to an online magazine/resource.

Props to Peter Ian Cummings for making it this far through some much stress and strife.

By: chris houghton

chris houghton — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:08:23 +0000

haha i have no i dea butt like i have alwayz known i was gay like seriously umm likei hate fucking mi mom cuz we use all the peanut butter twat up lolz yummy but now i know 4 sure im gay i love guys i amd not a gay virgin im happily to say im not a virgin and i lo st it to mi gay boi and mi mommy love u guyz but mi mommy is yucky so i fuck man now uhhhhhhhhh i just love them skronyu mascular dicks uhh uhhh u8hhh babu come closer hell ya fuck harder nd harder

By: noMamdotcom

noMamdotcom — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:00:31 +0000

I agree! All XY has done for the past decade is complain about their problems and ask for money and donations. I had not suscribed for more than 5 years, and all of a sudden I had a magazine from XY and a note asking me to donate. Yuck! And the only worthwhile part were 5 photos of the attractive cover model. Otherwise- just a waste of paper and my time. Inside was just full of rambling “poor me, and give me $”. NOOOOOOO TIME!!!!

By: Judith

Judith — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:51:52 +0000

I don’t remember XY but I did meet my first girlfriend on gay.com, and a couple of years ago I thought I’d look at the personals and found that they require membership now. How ridiculous, indeed! Most of the lesbians I know use Okcupid now, which is good in that you can choose a sexuality and keep men from showing up in searches if you prefer, but it’s still a general site. Frustrating.