It was May 2001 when the first issue of BUTT magazine landed with a bang. It was about

time to shake up the commodified, clean-clut image of homosexuality. And that's exactly

what BUTT magazine has been doing for the past five years. With its shockingly simple

format of true, explicit Q&A's and candid photographs, BUTT proves that subversive gayness

is still very much alive in the minds of today's homosexual men. From the homo pop

star to the fashion designer, from the garbage man to the gay farmer - they show it all

and tell it all on BUTT's pink pages.

A lot of material from the now rare, earlier issues of BUTT magazine is finally made

available again in this anthology of the first five years of BUTT, including conversations

with Michael Stipe, Gus Van Sant, Rufus Wainwright, Marc Jacobs, as well as contributions

from Wolfgang Tillmans, Terry Richardson, Hedi Slimane, asianpunkboy and Helmut Lang,

just to name a few. "BUTT has single-handedly pioneered the notion of a smart, literate

gay magazine yet also manages to be very dirty," notes filmmaker Bruce LaBruce in his

foreword. "BUTT matters. BUTT fills a hole."