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Hello Mr., issue 10, August 2018 [Erscheinungsweise: ca. 2 x jährlich]
Magazin, Klebebindung/Paperback, 17 x 24 cm, Abb. s/w und Farbe, 192 Seiten
Texte in englischer Sprache
Inhalt:
It was exactly six years ago that I developed the contributor guidelines for Hello Mr. from my Harvey Milk Elementary-adjacent apartment in San Francisco’s Castro District. “Marriage can wait,” I said, “the gay community needs a rebrand.” That was my opening line, back in 2012.
“Hello Mr. is the introduction to a new generation. As a contributor to the first issue, you have the opportunity to reclaim ownership of what defines you. Hello Mr. will become whatever you want it to be. Your interest alone is my motivation to see to it that this brand evolves into something wonderful.”
Reading this now — the notion of a “rebrand” — feels supremely optimistic, naive even. Nevertheless, if I knew how the subsequent years would unfold, I would have never tried.
From the start, Hello Mr. was a space to understand each other better through a deeper understanding of ourselves. But I was determined to create something bigger than that. With the support and validation from this community, we built a platform to showcase new stories on a global stage. We may not have “rebranded gay,” but we exposed some flaws in the existing models, and opened the door for queer people to demand more, by showing them how.
In six years, we shipped nearly 65,000 magazines around the globe, amplifying the voices of over 500 contributing artists, writers, and photographers. It’s difficult to express the impact of these numbers, but within them were several firsts. For so many of you, Hello Mr. was the first LGBTQ magazine you ever owned. For others, we had the honor of making your publishing debut. And to anyone that encountered something new within themself because of a story that we published, I am immensely grateful. This exposure to possibility and of new discoveries has always been the magic of Hello Mr.
So, it’s with tremendous pride that I tell you that the 10th issue of Hello Mr. will be our last.
Whether you contributed or consumed it, the content we produced, issue after issue, amounted to something truly powerful. I can’t thank you enough for believing in it unconditionally. The world we live in today is a very different place than the one that originally afforded me the space to subvert gay media through a branding exercise. "Marriage can wait" meant something different in 2012 than it does now. After six dedicated years pushing our queer stories forward, I’ve learned a few things about my place in this conversation. When I came out a decade ago, for instance, I could have never imagined that my visibility, the thing I feared most, would become such a powerful form of activism.
While this decision hasn’t been easy, what I set out to accomplish, happened. And I know that the impact of Hello Mr. will continue to carry on through the influence it’s had on each of you. You, and the sense of empowerment you feel in reading a magazine like ours — make me hopeful.
And that hopefulness is no doubt a consequence of this 10th and final issue. Like our cover mister Olly Alexander’s future-focused artistic practice, many of the themes in this issue are a projection of a better queer future: the out of this world truth-telling of astrologer Chani Nicholas and the visionary outlook on the modeling industry of New Pandemics. Then there are those which comment on the future, by way of looking at the past, like Jacob Tobia’s harrowing tale of navigating the gay world as a genderqueer person, Jim Parsons’ honoring of the AIDS epidemic, Savage Grace and Swoon screenwriter/director Tom Kalin’s tale of resistance through the years, or Tom Capelonga’s survey of queer pop culture in the 20th century.
Looking back helps move us forward. Decades of various kinds of activism paved a way for me to make the most of the chance I was given. Now, it’s up to you to continue defining the future you want to live in. You already know what’s possible, so trust yourself and manifest that shit already! I’ll be seeing you.
Ryan Fitzgibbon
Hello Mr., issue 10, August 2018 [Erscheinungsweise: ca. 2 x jährlich]
Magazin, Klebebindung/Paperback, 17 x 24 cm, Abb. s/w und Farbe, 192 Seiten
Texte in englischer Sprache
Inhalt:
It was exactly six years ago that I developed the contributor guidelines for Hello Mr. from my Harvey Milk Elementary-adjacent apartment in San Francisco’s Castro District. “Marriage can wait,” I said, “the gay community needs a rebrand.” That was my opening line, back in 2012.
“Hello Mr. is the introduction to a new generation. As a contributor to the first issue, you have the opportunity to reclaim ownership of what defines you. Hello Mr. will become whatever you want it to be. Your interest alone is my motivation to see to it that this brand evolves into something wonderful.”
Reading this now — the notion of a “rebrand” — feels supremely optimistic, naive even. Nevertheless, if I knew how the subsequent years would unfold, I would have never tried.
From the start, Hello Mr. was a space to understand each other better through a deeper understanding of ourselves. But I was determined to create something bigger than that. With the support and validation from this community, we built a platform to showcase new stories on a global stage. We may not have “rebranded gay,” but we exposed some flaws in the existing models, and opened the door for queer people to demand more, by showing them how.
In six years, we shipped nearly 65,000 magazines around the globe, amplifying the voices of over 500 contributing artists, writers, and photographers. It’s difficult to express the impact of these numbers, but within them were several firsts. For so many of you, Hello Mr. was the first LGBTQ magazine you ever owned. For others, we had the honor of making your publishing debut. And to anyone that encountered something new within themself because of a story that we published, I am immensely grateful. This exposure to possibility and of new discoveries has always been the magic of Hello Mr.
So, it’s with tremendous pride that I tell you that the 10th issue of Hello Mr. will be our last.
Whether you contributed or consumed it, the content we produced, issue after issue, amounted to something truly powerful. I can’t thank you enough for believing in it unconditionally. The world we live in today is a very different place than the one that originally afforded me the space to subvert gay media through a branding exercise. "Marriage can wait" meant something different in 2012 than it does now. After six dedicated years pushing our queer stories forward, I’ve learned a few things about my place in this conversation. When I came out a decade ago, for instance, I could have never imagined that my visibility, the thing I feared most, would become such a powerful form of activism.
While this decision hasn’t been easy, what I set out to accomplish, happened. And I know that the impact of Hello Mr. will continue to carry on through the influence it’s had on each of you. You, and the sense of empowerment you feel in reading a magazine like ours — make me hopeful.
And that hopefulness is no doubt a consequence of this 10th and final issue. Like our cover mister Olly Alexander’s future-focused artistic practice, many of the themes in this issue are a projection of a better queer future: the out of this world truth-telling of astrologer Chani Nicholas and the visionary outlook on the modeling industry of New Pandemics. Then there are those which comment on the future, by way of looking at the past, like Jacob Tobia’s harrowing tale of navigating the gay world as a genderqueer person, Jim Parsons’ honoring of the AIDS epidemic, Savage Grace and Swoon screenwriter/director Tom Kalin’s tale of resistance through the years, or Tom Capelonga’s survey of queer pop culture in the 20th century.
Looking back helps move us forward. Decades of various kinds of activism paved a way for me to make the most of the chance I was given. Now, it’s up to you to continue defining the future you want to live in. You already know what’s possible, so trust yourself and manifest that shit already! I’ll be seeing you.
Ryan Fitzgibbon
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