''BUTT'' is a biannual magazine that features photography and interviews about alternative gay and queer culture and sexuality. Historically, the magazine has been marketed as for gay men. ''BUTT'' was founded in 2001 by Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom. The magazine, originating in the

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, features interviews, articles, and advertisements and illuminated upon trends and lifestyles within the homosexual and queer community. The magazine publishes interviews and photographs with gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer artists. Its first issue showed German fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm in nude portraits taken by

Wolfgang Tillmans Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. Tillmans was the first photog ...

. Since its first issue in May 2001, ''BUTT'' has featured artists such as Casey Spooner,

Michael Stipe John Michael Stipe (; born January 4, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter and artist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of alternative rock band R.E.M. He is known for his vocal quality, poetic lyrics and unique stage presence. Po ...

John Waters John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including '' Multiple Maniacs'' (1970), '' Pink Flamingos'' (1972) and '' Fe ...

, Arca, Heinz Peter Knes, Leilah Weinraub,

Edmund White Edmund Valentine White III (born 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics. Since 1999 he has been a professor at Princeton University. France made him (and later ) de l'Ordr ...

Terence Koh Terence Koh (born 1977 in Beijing, China ) is a Canadian artist who has also worked under the alias "asianpunkboy". The artist's work spans a range of media, including drawing, sculpture, video, performance, and the internet. Originally workin ...

, Walter Pfeiffer,

Hilton Als Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer and theater critic. He is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, an associate professor of writing at Columbia University and a staff writer and theater critic for ''The New Yo ...

, and

Slava Mogutin Slava Mogutin (full name Yaroslav Yurievich Mogutin, b. April 12, 1974, Kemerovo) is a New York-based Russian artist and author, who works across different media, including photography, video, text, installation, sculpture, and painting. ...

. Readers submitted interviews, letters, photographs, or articles. Subscribers were referred to as "Buttheads" and could join the Butthead community officially through the magazine's website. In 2005, ''

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'' named ''BUTT'' as one of its top twenty magazines. , it had an estimated worldwide circulation of 24,000. In 2014,

Taschen Taschen is a luxury art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany. As of January 2017, Taschen is co-managed by Benedikt and his eldest daughter, Marlene Taschen. History The company began as Taschen Comic ...

released ''Butt Forever'', an anthology of some of the magazine's highlights since its inception. The magazine is available worldwide. In the United States and the United Kingdom, it was available at

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stores, among other places. It ceased print publication in 2011, and relaunched in September of 2022. ''BUTT'' has been praised for its unabashed sexual and non-sexual portrayals of men, which emphasize equal opportunity in depictions of all people in print. The magazine has been lauded for its unique, candid approach to interviews, which may be done by anyone.AM
"Why I Love BUTT Magazine"
AMP Minizine, 2008. Accessed 3 April 2008.

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* {{Official website, www.buttmagazine.com Gay men's magazines LGBT-related magazines published in the Netherlands Magazines established in 2001 Quarterly magazines published in the Netherlands