Unzipped, which was really the only porn mag worth subscribing to for it’s great blend of hot guys and fun editorials, is no longer. Even worse, it’s killer blog seems to have stop posting too. Sad news.
Both Gay Porn Times and The Sword reported yesterday that most of the staff had been let go and that they were clearing out the offices. We were waiting for the official announcement, but it still seems forthcoming. Unzipped Media, which was also producing Men Magazine and Freshmen Magazine quarterly (but we haven’t seen a new issue in ages), is owned by Regent media, the struggling gay media conglomerate that owns Out, The Advocate, Here! TV, Gay.com, and a bunch of other properties. Unzipped, like all magazines and gay media, had been struggling, but just a few months ago they brought on a new editor and an aggressive publicity/marketing campaign that we hoped would turn this thing into what it always was, the gay version of Playboy. Alas, it must not have worked.
This follows the death of Maveti Media and their titles like Torso, Inches, Honcho, and Mandate. Playgirl is back in print, but only for the special Levi Johnston issue (which is totally worth the $5, by the way). While we haven’t beaten off to something on paper in more than a decade, what we’ll really miss is the Unzipped blog, which was always filled with hot guys, would regularly break stories in the gay porn industry, and was just a fun read in general. Also, we cribbed more stories from them than we would care to admit, so we shed real tears for that. As for the rest of it, it’s sad to see a gay institution fail, but the only people it really effects are your gay uncle.
·Unzipped Cancellation Soap Opera (gayporntimes.com)
·Unzipped Has Folded (thesword.com)
