02/26/2009
Genre Magazine Editor Neal Boulton Bolts
Via Page Six:
"Neal Boulton has quit as editor of the gay magazine Genre to pursue his dream of becoming a best-selling author. Boulton recently sold his motorcycle-trekking book, 'Sex Across America,' and is working on a memoir about being a married bisexual dad of two with a switch-hitting wife. 'I made the hard call to leave my friends at Genre. It's been a good run,' Boulton told us. 'Hell, Anna Wintour had to close Men's Vogue - we're still standing." He adds that his lifestyles Web site, BastardLife.com, has been 'seriously approached' by 'Penn & Teller: Bull[bleep]!' director Star Price about doing a show called 'BastardLife NYC.'"
It was recently reported that Avalon Equity, the major shareholder of Genre's parent company Window Media, has gone into receivership, and some subscribers haven't received a current copy of the magazine in months.
Posted 8:05 AM EST by Andy Towle in Gay Media, Magazines, New York, News |
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I got a year's free subscription to GENRE through a special offer about a year and a half ago and it still keeps arriving in my mail box every month. The last 3 or 4 issues have had a paper insert saying "your last issue!" yet they still arrive. I think they are padding their circulation this way. I would never pay a penny for GENRE. There's nothing of interest in it, and I'm even starting to get annoyed that it's arriving for free.
Posted by: tobey | Feb 26, 2009 8:32:32 AM
Good Riddance!
Boulton's overhaul of Genre into a "gay GQ" was a disaster.
Sorry to bash, but an elite "bisexual dad" does not have a clue about the lifestyles of the average gay boy in the burbs, the gay ghetto or in the the cities.
Maybe Genre will go back to CONTENT and not fashion editorials with pretty boys wearing clothes we can't afford.
Posted by: Qjersey | Feb 26, 2009 8:53:40 AM
Somehow, we got on a FREE GENRE list a couple of years ago and each of the recent issues has the "LAST ISSUE!!!" insert. Yet they still keep coming.
It's such a detestable, vapid magazine now. I actually bought the first issue of Genre (and still have it); it was quite the little magazine packed with relevant and sometime-fluffy articles.
Now it's just terrible. My city's local gay rags are much better produced.
Posted by: Rey | Feb 26, 2009 9:00:34 AM
I came home yesterday to find the "holiday" edition, December 2008, in my mailbox. WTF? My subscription ran out more than a year ago and I continue to get new issues each month still... no wonder they're in receivership. The magazine goes straight in the garbage can anyway when it arrives... nothing to see here.
Posted by: Wayne | Feb 26, 2009 9:37:03 AM
Genre is going away. HA. Not surprised at all. I always wondered how they got ink to stick to cotton candy. Or is it marshmallow cream? Either way.....it's fluff.
Posted by: Chris | Feb 26, 2009 9:58:05 AM
I couldn't agree more. GENRE has become a stereotypical joke. Nothing but articles about blasting your abs, mixing the perfect persimmon martini and which pair of pocket embellished $800 jeans are de rigueur this season. I throw it in the bathroom and flip through it until I can't stand it any longer -- that usually takes about 2 minutes. What a waste of paper!
Posted by: Barry | Feb 26, 2009 9:58:36 AM
There is good trash and bad. Genre defintely fell in the latter category. I don't think many will miss it -- I sure won't.
Posted by: Matt | Feb 26, 2009 10:33:28 AM
"...is working on a memoir about being a married bisexual dad of two with a switch-hitting wife..."
Good for them, but the majority of straights and the majority of gays won't/ don't emotionally connect with such material. Do what you will and have fun doing it, but if I was a publisher I would have to pass on even reviewing such let alone publishing it for a non existent market place especialy in these tight economic times. How many bisexual dads with switch hitting moms are there out there? Those who aren't will most likely not be interested.
genre mag?
Hell, the majority of print is going away. newspapers and magazines are all going bye bye if they don't switch to web content only. They are like horse and buggys compared to the rise of the car. Bye bye switch/evolve or die
Posted by: jimmyboyo | Feb 26, 2009 10:47:12 AM
"his dream of becoming a best-selling author"
LOL! That's hysterical!
Posted by: Jeff NYC | Feb 26, 2009 11:25:16 AM
I would like to address my namesake here. While his hair is not as impressively 80's as mine, his tender-tough approach to his own pan-sexuality, mixed with an incredible dose of egoism and self-obsession, makes him the poster child for everything that is wrong with the inbred gay media culture, just like I'm the poster child for everything that's wrong with men's hair styles.
Posted by: Michael Boulton | Feb 26, 2009 11:55:39 AM
I have to agree with the majority of these posts. Genre really has become a boring magazine that's not worth the glossy paper it's printed on. While I know Andy runs this Site, Genre hasn't been the same since he left. I am surely not being a sycophant here either. Anyone who gets the rag will certainly agree. Genre has become a very boring read that only details gay male life for the .001% who live in NYC. And even that small number appears to be dwindling...
Posted by: Dr. Christopher Blackwell | Feb 26, 2009 12:12:42 PM
ahhh, neal.....where do i begin? having met you at a bar, and made out with you on several occasions, phone calls to me over christmas holiday to keep in touch, then you fell off the face of the planet only to be found on page six (shocker) that you had gotten back with your wife......then you tried to find me again but failed....good luck, sir, on whatever it is you're trying to find, you weird little man.....
Posted by: lynn | Feb 26, 2009 1:42:57 PM
I don't even know how I got on Genre's list because I never had a subscription to their magazine yet I get issue after issue even though I've requested it to stop. STOP THE INSANITY!!! And, Genre, please stop sending me this rag. Thank you.
Posted by: JerzeeMike | Feb 26, 2009 2:19:47 PM
Wow, for once everyone is in agreement! Genre stinks, it pads its subscriber base (based on zip codes, I'm sure---I've been getting it free for years), and I just got the December issue (pictured). One of the subscription cards offered a year's subscription and a gift subscription for a total of SIX dollars. Time to pull the plug.
Actually I have a feeling that his "sudden departure" as editor is pretty closed timed to the magazine's "sudden demise." Good riddance. Maybe someday someone will create a decent gay men's magazine. Dare to dream!
Actually I think all men's magazines, gay or straight, need to pull back on the fashion. Even GQ and Details go way overboard with shots of models in clothes most people can't afford, promoting the same designers. If I don't care, it's damn certain no straight man cares. And if you want to look at hot guys showing off their bodies, buy porn---not swimsuit specials. Sometimes those spreads make me feel like a closeted guy buying Men's Fitness (or Health, or whatever it's called).
Posted by: Paul R | Feb 26, 2009 2:23:57 PM
Bastardlife.com is the most masturbatory juvenile ego-centric crap website out there. I couldn’t give a sh*t less about Boulton’s rambling pontifications on proper dildo use or strap-ons for straights. Bleh. That man is so desperately grappling with his (lack of) masculinity, it's pathetic. Queen please!
Posted by: RP | Feb 26, 2009 3:55:08 PM
My real concern is will Instinct survive this economy. Now, there's some fluff that's still fun.
Posted by: tyler | Feb 26, 2009 7:17:38 PM
And he can take his whole "We're living in post-gay world" ideology with him.
Posted by: Gianpiero | Feb 26, 2009 7:46:11 PM