What is Puck?
At the center of any young gay man's life lies a question: Who am I?
Puck Magazine celebrates this question, by exploring what it means to be young and gay in 2010:
1. From high-school crushes to coming out,
2. Your first kiss to your first drunken night at the club,
3. Surviving puberty to surviving college,
4. For small town teens with no support network to big-city gay boys starting their adult lives.
Puck's target readership is the Young crowd- Professionals, college boys, struggling artists, post-grads, club kids, even aspiring rock stars. Puck focuses on the larger issues surrounding young queer life: questioning sexuality, youth politics and wider cultural trends. Puck appeals to straight/questioning boys as well as gay youth activists, cultural connoisseurs and highly opinionated gay intellectuals.
Puck's audience is young, trendy, funky, queer, alternative, innocent, geeky, bored, adventurous, disappointed, playful, political, non-scene, confused, intelligent, romantic, cute, flirty, sassy, and discovering.
Puck is written by-and for-young gay men. From blog post-style articles to exotic travelogues, the majority of Puck's content is user-submitted; in this way Puck Magazine cultivates a strong sense of community and identity with its readership.
Each issue of Puck is focused around a unique theme, bringing refreshing and unpredictable content to its readers. Trendy, intelligent and ironic, our readers identify with the quality content in each issue of Puck. Being online, the magazine is accessible anytime anywhere to anyone.
Puck differentiates itself dramatically from the usual, boring recipes found in gay magazines today, instead focusing on fresh content and opinions, which empowers, educates, challenges, and entertains a new generation of queer youth.
We showcase coming-out stories, heartfelt poetry, and tales of unrequited love, bullying at school, lust on the dance floor, awkward dates from hell, and surviving that quarter life crisis. Puck readers are central to the magazine's message.
Puck is honest, provocative, alternative, fresh, funky, flirty, hot, in-your-face, helpful, playful, positive, political, non-scene, worldly, intelligent, innovative, sassy and shocking!
PS : We are looking for some good looking people to feature in our Mag.
Contents - We invite articles under the following heads
CELEBRITY OF THE MONTH
Who’s yay and who’s nay, openly gay and the ones who we wish were, icons to idols to trendsetters will beautify Puck pages every month
STYLE & GROOMING
What’s hot, what’s not, dressing up for that date, or going out with a mate, the bare essentials and the bare you! Accessories, apt fragrance, makeovers to anything, we’ll tell you.
WARDROBE ESSENTIALS
That pink bow, khaki shorts of your crush, the see through tee, and the eloquent kurta, what to keep and what to throw, what to hide and what to show, Puck is there for you.
WELLNESS- Nutrition, Fitness & Health
Calorie watch, gaining or losing, food of the month, junks, workout tips, disease alerts, fitness+laziness, yoga or gym, remedies, you name it, we have it
DATING
Hooking up with that cute guy, do’s & don’ts, the first meeting, tips & TRICKS, mannerisms etcetera, last minute disasters, Puck will tell you all. Of course you don’t want to get caught with those uncontrolled burps & “I’m the man, I’ll pay” chirps.
THIS WEEKEND: MOVIES, MUSIC & EVENTS
Latest flick in town, bitchy reviews, cruel criticisms, music new on shelves, Vintage,dvds, cds (or downloads!) Events, parties and related in your city and how to break in those!
ART
We are not getting boring here now, capturing new art forms in a rebellious, kinky, naughty or creative way. Redefining the established notions, breaking taboos and showcasing queer talent, Puck is all up for it.
POETRY
The best form of expression of human emotions since time eternal, Puck invites all those poets with a meaningful line or two in their hearts to scribble it down for Puck
AGONY AUNT
Bring your problems regarding date/sex/relationships/ONS/love/commitment/breakups/crushes/tips, she answers everything
DIARY OF A STRAIGHT BOY—Ever wondered what the other team was thinking? Wonder no longer as our in-house straight boy ponders gay topics for the benefit of our straight-starved boys.
STDs & SAFE SEX
Lets be adults regarding some things, while staying kids by heart. Advices, bursting myths, establishing facts, we’ll give all that info.
NEWS
Both from India and abroad. From Archies’ gay cards, to the AzaadBazaar, latest developments, Lindsay Lohan’s latest girlfriend to Uganda proposing to kill gays, Puck will cover all.
ACTIVISM
Gay rights, pride marches to breaking closets, court cases to religious opposition, positive developments to not so positive ones, Puck will have its chunk of activism every month.
So, are you coming or going? Or coming and then going? Or coming and staying?
Enjoy while you are here….
Ankur, Irfan, Shiva and Kanishk
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