{{Short description|English-language gay magazine from the Netherlands}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = BUTT | image_file = BUTT23 Cover.jpg | image_size = 200px | image_caption = Cover of ''Butt'' 23 (Spring 2008) | editor = Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom | editor_title = Editors | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | frequency = Semiannual | circulation = 24,000 | category = Gay | company = | publisher = | firstdate = Spring 2001 | country = Netherlands | based = | language = English | website = {{URL|http://www.buttmagazine.com/}} | issn = }}
'''''BUTT''''' is a biannual magazine that features photography and interviews about alternative gay and queer culture and sexuality. Historically, the magazine has been marketed as for gay men. The magazine, originating in the Netherlands, features interviews, photographs, articles, and advertisements that document trends and lifestyles within the gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer community.
==History== ''BUTT'' was founded in 2001 by Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jonkers |first1=Gert |last2=van Bennekom |first2=Jop |url=http://www.buttmagazine.com/?p=259 |title=About BUTT Magazine |website=BUTT |date=2008 |access-date=3 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526072403/http://www.buttmagazine.com/?p=259 |archive-date=26 May 2008}}</ref> Its first issue showed German fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm in nude portraits taken by Wolfgang Tillmans.
The magazine is available worldwide. In the United States and the United Kingdom, it was available at American Apparel stores, among other places.
It ceased print publication in 2011,<ref>{{cite web |last=Networks |first=Hornet |date=21 February 2018 |title=Before There Was Tumblr There Was 'BUTT' Magazine, Now Getting the Documentary Treatment |url=https://hornet.com/stories/butt-magazine-documentary/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921082826/https://hornet.com/stories/butt-magazine-documentary/ |archive-date=21 September 2020 |access-date=15 June 2019 |website=Hornet}}</ref> and relaunched in September 2022 under the editorial leadership of writer and editor Andrew Pasquier as Chief Editor.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bardou |first=Florian |title="BUTT", le come-back cul-culte du magazine gay |url=https://www.liberation.fr/lifestyle/mode/butt-le-come-back-cul-culte-du-magazine-gay-20220312_MKNFYCYVAZGYVHLZ4AGCQWQ7X4/ |access-date=12 March 2022 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref>
==Content==
''BUTT'' has featured artists such as Casey Spooner, Michael Stipe, John Waters, Arca, Heinz Peter Knes, Leilah Weinraub, Edmund White, Terence Koh, Walter Pfeiffer, Hilton Als, and Slava Mogutin. Readers submitted interviews, letters, photographs, or articles. Subscribers were referred to as "Buttheads" and could join the Butthead community officially through the magazine's website.
==Reception and impact==
In 2005, ''The Guardian'' named ''BUTT'' as one of its top twenty magazines.<ref>{{cite news |title=Covered in glory |date=11 December 2005 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/dec/12/mondaymediasection.pressandpublishing?gusrc=rss&feed=global |work=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410052210/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/dec/12/mondaymediasection.pressandpublishing?gusrc=rss&feed=global |access-date=9 April 2017 |archive-date=10 April 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> {{As of|2008}}, it had an estimated worldwide circulation of 24,000.<ref name="TMagazine">{{cite news |last=Hornyn |first=Cathy |date=9 March 2008 |title=Double Dutch |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/03/09/style/t/index.html#pageName=09fantasticw |url-status=live |access-date=1 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202193334/http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/03/09/style/t/index.html#pageName=09fantasticw |archive-date=2 December 2017}}</ref> In 2014, Taschen released ''Butt Forever'', an anthology of some of the magazine's highlights since its inception.<ref>{{cite web |title=Forever BUTT |url=https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/sex/all/04614/facts.forever_butt.htm |year=2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410050924/https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/sex/all/04614/facts.forever_butt.htm |publisher=Taschen |access-date=9 April 2017 |archive-date=10 April 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>
''BUTT'' has been praised for its unabashed sexual and non-sexual portrayals of men, which emphasize equal opportunity in depictions of all people in print.<ref>{{cite web |last=McClear |first=Sheila |title=Finally, a Chance for {{Sic|hide=y|Fully|-}}Splayed Men |url=http://gawker.com/352832/finally-a-chance-for-fully+splayed-men |website=Gawker |date=5 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080208105107/http://gawker.com/352832/finally-a-chance-for-fully%2Bsplayed-men |archive-date=8 February 2008 |access-date=3 April 2008}}</ref> The magazine has been lauded for its unique, candid approach to interviews, which may be conducted by anyone.<ref>{{cite web |title=Why I Love BUTT Magazine |url=http://www.ampnet.co.uk/sleaze/butt_magazine.html |website=AMP Minizine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723132252/http://www.ampnet.co.uk/sleaze/butt_magazine.html |archive-date=23 July 2011 |access-date=3 April 2008}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website|www.buttmagazine.com}}
Category:Gay culture in Europe Category:Gay men's magazines Category:LGBTQ-related magazines published in the Netherlands Category:Magazines established in 2001 Category:Quarterly magazines published in the Netherlands