For countless gay men of a slightly earlier era, the International Male catalogue provided a portal to fashion… and fantasy. Handsome men with chiseled jaws and muscled bods filled the pages of IM, ...

In this circa-1980s behind the scenes photo, Dallas creative and former 'International Male' catalog art director Maureen Dalton Wolfe (left) helps style an unidentified model for a shoot. The ...

Lots of gay guys will tell you that the moment they knew they were gay was when they lingered in the underwear aisle of a department store as a kid, ogling the torsos on the packaging. Another version ...

For gay men who came of age in the 1970s through the early 1990s, hiding the “International Male” catalog, which somehow seemed to magically appear in the family mailbox, became a rite of passage.

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Bomer narrates All Man: The International Male Story, the feature documentary debut of Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed that is having its world premiere this weekend at the Tribeca ...

The catalog was more than a place to peruse the latest fashions. It reshaped society’s definitions of masculinity. By Elisabeth Vincentelli When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

Before there were Instagays and overtly gay underwear brands, the International Male catalog offered a somewhat coded window into homoeroticism, and the company behind it was happy to reap the rewards ...