![]() Still, the magazine remained lodged in my imagination. Throughout my teens, I’d occasionally see Playgirl pop up in the back shelves of gas stations or head shops, but as a closeted gay boy in rural Oklahoma, I had learned well by that point to feign indifference to anything that might incriminate me as a burgeoning homosexual. A friend’s older sister had a copy in her room-a well-leafed issue from 1985 featuring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis on the cover-which was dramatically revealed to us at a sleepover, though we were forbidden from actually looking at it. The first time I remember seeing an issue of Playgirl was sometime in the awkward middle of Junior High. Link to the essay coming soon, but in the meantime you can snag a copy here. ![]() I was very happy to write the intro essay for the newly-relaunched version of Playgirl magazine.
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