Beefcake (1998) on Netflix
NR19981h 31mDocumentaryDramaHistory
Bob Mizer sells muscle magazines as physical culture through his Athletic Model Guild, and an underground gay readership buys them. His mother Delia works alongside him at the Guild.
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Bob Mizer runs the Athletic Model Guild and puts out Physique Pictorial four times a year. The magazine is sold as physical culture, and the men who buy it are largely an underground homosexual readership who can pass off their interest as an enthusiasm for fitness. Mizer also makes men's films that stay sexually inexplicit. His mother, Delia Mizer, works beside him, and the Guild keeps a roster of models. Staged recreations of life at the Guild are woven together with the recollections of men who posed and of photographers whose pictures ran in the early issues, and with clips from Mizer's own films.
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