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What does AMG stand for?

Athletic Model Guild


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The book does discuss Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild and his photography, published in his own magazine Physique Pictorial and elsewhere, but identifies Muscle Beach in Mizer's heyday as being in Venice, when it was in Santa Monica, as depicted in Tennessee Williams's glorious story, "The Mattress by the Tomato Patch.
In the next two decades, the magazine and Mizer's company, Athletic Model Guild, inspire dozens of imitators.
Thom Fitzgerald's entertaining docudrama about 1950s homoeroticism focuses on the Athletic Model Guild, which was managed and defended by Los Angeles photographer Robert Henry Mizer (played here by Daniel MacIvor).
Convinced that I was beyond the pale of all things human, I nevertheless began coming out in my junior year (1957--58), and that's when I was introduced to the subterranean worlds of gay Manhattan and to the magazines that catered to gay men's sexual fantasies: Physique Pictorial, Vim, Trim, Athletic Model Guild, and publications by Bruce of Hollywood and Tom of Finland.

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