Paul Poiret's Monsieur Magazine.
"A Journal of Elegance", indeed.
CAMP: "A cornucopia of frivolity, incongruity, theatricality, and humour." "A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love." "The lie that tells the truth." "Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals."
I thought, significantly, there wasn't a single female visible on any of these until I got to the last one and then realized the "ballerina" is a whirling dervish.
ReplyDeleteBernard Boutet de Monvel never sketched any gay erotica, but it is probably the absence of male nudes that closed the publication. :-) Jx
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