Glamour Backstage

Glamour Backstage was a men's magazine published in Singapore in the 1990s which enjoyed great popularity with the local gay community.

It's initials "GB" by which the periodical was often also referred to was thought to be a code which stood for "gay boy". It is not known if this was intentional on the part of the publishers.

It often featured photos of lean-fit to muscular young men in sexy poses and thinly disguised articles about the gay community but never openly proclaimed itself to be a gay magazine.

This was one creative method of circumventing the draconian regulations of the Censorship Review Committee (CRC).

Many gay men used it as their source of "soft porn" because images of sexy, scantily clad Chinese men were not readily available in local or imported magazines, nor online in the nascent Internet of that era. It was regarded as a mainstream publication suitable for a general readership so it was widely available, even at NTUC Fairprice magazine stands.

It was one of the precursors to the more openly gay Manazine, which made its debut in the mid-2000s.

=Scans=

This is an archive of several pages of a 1993 edition of Glamour Backstage. (Click on each image to view the page in its full resolution).



=See also=


 * Singapore gay history
 * Singapore gay literature