{{Short description|Quarterly magazine focused on the culture and lifestyle of transgender men}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Original Plumbing | logo = | logo_size = | image_file =File:Original_Plumbing_Issue_7_Spring_2011.png | image_size = <!-- (defaults to user thumbnail size if no size is stated) --> | image_caption = Spring 2011 cover | editor = Amos Mac, Rocco Kayiatos | editor_title = Editors-in-chief | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer =Amos Mac | category = | frequency = Quarterly, Biannual | circulation = | publisher = | founder = | founded = | firstdate = September 2009 | company = | country = United States | based = Los Angeles, California | language = | website = {{URL|originalplumbing.com}} | issn = 2153-6341 | oclc = 535650207 | finaldate =2019}} '''''Original Plumbing''''', also known as '''''OP''''', was a quarterly magazine focused on "the culture and lifestyle of transgender men."<ref name="OP About page">{{cite web|url=http://www.originalplumbing.com/index.php/about|title=About|work=Original Plumbing Online|accessdate=June 1, 2014|archive-date=June 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627143001/http://www.originalplumbing.com/index.php/about|url-status=dead}}</ref> The magazine was started in September 2009 in the San Francisco Bay Area, by editors-in-chief Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos. The magazine was later published and distributed from both Brooklyn, New York, and later Los Angeles, California.<ref name="OP About page" /> Mac and Kayiatos created ''Original Plumbing'' to bring visibility to the trans male community. At the time of the magazine's conception, trans men received little to no representation on TV, in mainstream film, or in other “LGB”-focused magazines.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amos-mac-original-plumbing-interview_us_570fe103e4b088aea430d631|title=Meet Amos Mac, Founder Of A Groundbreaking Magazine For Trans Men|last=Nichols|first=James Michael|date=2016-04-17|work=Huffington Post|access-date=2018-11-05|language=en-US}}</ref> It is the aim of ''Original Plumbing'' to represent "true diversity in the female-to-male (FTM) trans community; in size, age, body, surgery, hormone use and non-use."<ref name=":2">{{cite magazine|last=Mac|first=Amos|date=Fall 2009|title=No. 01 The Bedroom Issue|magazine=Original Plumbing}}</ref> ''Original Plumbing'' is the first magazine for trans men made by trans men. ''Original Plumbing''<nowiki/>'s first issue, with the theme “Bedroom,” sold out before it was even published in 2009 — but Mac and Kayiatos were still unsure how their magazine would fare when they started. According to Kayiatos, "When Amos and I started, we didn’t know how this would go over. In general, ''OP'' was a pretty blessed and magical experience. We set all of our intentions for the first year, things both grandiose and achievable. Everything came to fruition. It felt like we were doing what we were supposed to do."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.them.us/story/original-plumbing-interview|title=Over 10 Years, This Magazine Made Space and Broke Barriers for Trans Men|website=them.|date=17 May 2019 |language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref>
Mac and Kayiatos decided early on the magazine would have a limited run of 20 issues. The final issue of ''Original'' ''Plumbing'' was released in 2019, followed shortly after by the release of an anthologized "best of" book, published by Feminist Press.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Goodman|first=Elyssa|title=Over 10 Years, This Magazine Made Space and Broke Barriers for Trans Men|url=https://www.them.us/story/original-plumbing-interview|access-date=2021-06-17|website=them.|date=17 May 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Meaning == The magazine's name refers to the term "original plumbing" as used by transgender people in Craigslist personal ads to indicate they have not had sex reassignment surgery.<ref name="Greenfield">{{cite web|url=http://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/original-plumbing-launches|title=Original Plumbing launches|last=Greenfield|first=Beth|date=October 19, 2009|work=Time Out|accessdate=June 1, 2014|archive-date=April 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414112110/http://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/original-plumbing-launches|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Trebay">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/fashion/12gimlet.html?_r=0|title=Giving Voice to the Once-Silent|last=Trebay|first=Guy|date=August 11, 2010|work=The New York Times|accessdate=June 1, 2014}}</ref> According to Mac, "It is our belief that surgery and hormones don’t necessarily make the man… It’s more than just that. Maybe it’s an attitude, a swagger, a limp wrist, or just an awareness of ones self. Needless to say, there is not just one way to be a trans man."<ref name=":2" />
== Content == ''Original Plumbing''{{'s}} content includes advice, essays, interviews, and erotic/pornographic stories and photographs. ''OP'' was influenced by teen magazine aesthetics, vintage physique pictorials, and magazines like ''BUTT'', ''Straight To Hell,'' and ''Physique'' ''Pictorial''''.'' <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.amosmac.com/publishing/|title=Publishing|website=AMOS MAC|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-05}}</ref><ref name=":02"/> As founding editor and creative director of this project, Mac has photographed the majority of the content within ''Original Plumbing''.<ref name=":1" /> Each issue is theme based and limited edition.<ref name="Tiffe">{{cite journal|last=Tiffe|first=Raechel|date=November 2013|title=Original Plumbing: Performing Gender Variance. Through Relational Self-Determination|url=http://liminalities.net/9-4/OP.pdf|journal=Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies|volume=9|issue=4}}</ref> The magazine is 8" x 10.5" when opened, with a page count of between 52 and 96 pages.<ref name=":1" />
== Issues ==
* No. 01 ''The Bedroom Issue'' * No. 02 ''The Hair Issue'' * No. 03 ''The Health and Safer Sex Issue'' * No. 04 ''The Workin' Stiff Issue'' * No. 05 ''The Fashion Issue'' * No. 06 ''The Schooled Issure'' * No. 07 ''The Green Issue'' * No. 08 ''The Family Issue'' * No. 09 ''The Entertainment Issue'' * No. 10 ''The Jock Issue'' * No. 11 ''The Hero Issue'' * No. 12 ''The Party Issue'' * No. 13 ''The Atlanta Issue'' * No. 14 ''The Board Stiff Issue'' * No. 15 ''The Selfie Issue'' * No. 16 ''The Lit Issue'' * No. 17 ''The Tattoo Issue'' * No. 18 ''The Bathroom Issue'' * No. 19 ''The Art Issue'' * No. 20 ''The Issues Issue''
== Book == The ''Original Plumbing'' anthology, featuring the best of all 20 issues, was published in 2019 by Feminist Press.<ref name=":1" />
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== External links == * {{Official website|http://originalplumbing.com/}}
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