In this circa-1980s behind the scenes photo, Dallas creative and former 'International Male' catalog art director Maureen Dalton Wolfe (left) helps style an unidentified model for a shoot. The ...

For gay men who came of age in the 1970s through the early 1990s, hiding the “International Male” catalog, which somehow seemed to magically appear in the family mailbox, became a rite of passage.

At-home catalogue shopping was never sexier than the era of International Male. Gays of a certain age will surely remember the mail-order clothing brand with advertorial “magazines” that were selling ...

Before there were Instagays and overtly gay underwear brands, the International Male catalog offered a somewhat coded window into homoeroticism, and the company behind it was happy to reap the rewards ...