Someone really wants to stick it to Genre editor Neal Boulton. An anonymous source sent out a little blurb yesterday and places Boulton at the Penthouse club sans his wife, with whom he recently reconciled: …Boulton was there with a blond women who is NOT his wife Claire. He kept the money and booze flowing well enough so that they had women all over them the entire time.” Scandal!
We, too, received this message and asked Boulton for a reply. Here’s what he had to say:
I can’t help it if the Penthouse girls, no matter what you’re into, are hot–and worth all the fists of bills I stuff into their g-strings. I have eyes for everything beautiful. Why live any other way? Plenty of cute boys swooning on tabletops over the years have profited from me in much the same way.
Boulton’s an equal opportunity employer, apparently.
hells kitchen guy
What’s truly weird about this is where he’s getting the money to throw around at dancehall girls or boys. He can’t be making that much at Genre, and he’s supporting two small children – and he’s stuffing $20 down girl’s thongs in a tittie bar? Doesn’t compute, unless he’s the one who sent out the item. Possible, considering his lust for publicity.
Jack Jett
I agree with Hells Kitchen….\
This does not compute.
Straight man runs gay magazine and put straight people on the cover.
Again, I ask, is there a shortage of gay editors and publishers in New York City?
qjersey
I just got around to reading he Michael Lucas edition of Genre (i have a subscription, but Genre isn’t exactly a “must read” anymore).
I could not believe the utterly bad sex advice given…and to call it “the secrets of sodomy” wasn’t funny. And then on the opposite page a story about Erectile drugs…that was so medically unsound and poorly done. You shouldn’t be taking half a pill of Viagra unless you truly are impotent or too drunk to fuck..and you shouldn’t do poppers with any of them, but of course this is only mentioned for Cialis.
And don’t get me started on the Michael Lucas “story” which was just a pictorial.
ousslander
He has to do something to fill his time since he’s nt putting that time into the magazine. No wonder the company is going down the toilet.
hells kitchen guy
Jack: Quite possible he got the job because it would ensure items like this – ie, no such thing as bad publicity (and Genre isn’t exactly on everyone’s mind these days)
burnedbygenre
To The Editor’s Of Jossip and Queerty: Neal Boulton was the kindest, cleverest and most nurturing boss I ever had. He’s creative, talented, and could sell his ideas to anyone better than any of you bitter ex-Genre employees and small time gay publishing people could ever imagine. It IS sad that dating him relegates you to the spot of a President’s wife in the shadows and that he has an ever wandering eye and an enterouge of “lust interests” but he has succeeded and done well for himself and was very kind to me. What reader of Queerty or gay man or woman has not enjoyed a strip club or worse without guilt? Genre is lucky to have him. The TRUE PROBLEMS that have made Genre close to closing it’s doors this month began WAY BEFORE Neal Boulton. It is Neal Boulton who was a fool for stooping so low as to work with Genre, not the other way around. And yes, he IS a great lay – anyone who attacks him is just jealous that they have not gotten his attention.
Michael
Yeah, but Boulton and his magazine are not serving the consumer. He’s not in touch with his readership. Great boss or not, the numbers speak for themselves. These magazines – across the board – are taking hard sales hits due in part to the internet and due in part to editors who are stuck in the past, unable to keep up with the changing tastes of their customers.
Jack Jett
Dear Burned…
I think I am pretty awesome too. However, I don’t think I would be the right choice to be the editor of a magazine called Big Black Beautiful Woman. And if I were, I don’t think my readers would appreciate me putting a photo of Charlize Theron on the cover.
I would love to see an article by Michael Lucas where he would talk about what it is like growing older in the porn biz. That interest me.
burnedbygenre
All I can say is that many responders on these sites seem to be making “holier-than-thou” slams about Neal Boulton. He may not be right for Genre I’ll give you that, but I wouldn’t write him off too soon. He has improved many many magazines whose content is foreign to him (and I was there, working for him when he did). If Genre fails it won’t be because he doesn’t suck as much as cock as the community expects of him. And it won’t be because he runs around town with women either. Genre will finally fail most likely for simpler reasons like Window Media’s inability to sustain it. They have not paid me in months, others for longer, and they have combined issues to save money. And they do not make money. Their publisher Bill Kapfer is soft, two-faced, and only cares about flitting around dropping names and looking fabulous, while the owner David Unger is not a magazine man and has no clue. Some of us from the magazines past have offered to help out but they just turn us away arrogantly.
whocaresnowanyway?
IT DOESN’T MATTER ANYMORE ANYWAY! DAVID UNGER JUST SHUT THE DOORS ON GENRE AN HOUR AGO!
matilda
Wait, did you just say GENRE is done? It used to be so good – it’s so sad that it’s going to close looking like some bad porno magazine. Really?
hells kitchen guy
To WhoCaresNow: say wha?
whocaresnowanyway?
HX’rs are saying that Genre is officially closed as of hour ago.
whocaresnowanyway?
The official announcement will be issued tomorrow upon the return of Bill Kapfer and David Unger but key staffers have been alerted. The Fashion Editor has already cleared his desk and the CFO is out already, too leaving a long list of unpaid people. Neal Boulton came in and left before anyone had a chance to ask him anything.
unlimited
This is all silly. From the the main article, the first post to the last post. Neal is weird,ok, so what he likes to go to strip clubs. They’re fun.
Genre magazine, is a good looking, fun mag.
Where is all this random, nonsense hatred coming from.
hells kitchen guy
http://gawker.com/5003300/rumormonger
Boulton says magazine is doing fine.
hells kitchen guy
Jack Jett – Genre’s last features editor and Chris Ciompi right hand man who recently left Genre was straight. I enjoyed reading his very intelligent articles, and did not think any less of what he offered me as a gay man because he was straight. How stupid.
Bastard Step Child
Hmmmm. HXers are saying that Genre is closed. Well I called my bud over there and if they are closed, then why are they still at work. I guess no one told them they were closed.
Oh Andrew….how sad for you. Why not talk about Planet Out and how many people they have fired and laid off…..
Bill Samuels
I can see a gay man who wants to convince potential employers that he’s “one of the boys” — despite any gay rumors — going to a strip club, throwing dollar bills at all the boobs, and making sure everyone knows about it via ‘secret emails’ and the like. I also know some gay — not bi — men who occasionally go into straight strip clubs because they find it all a big camp, boobs and all, and they sometimes bring lesbian companions. As for this business that a (supposedly) straight guy can do a fine job editing a gay magazine? If the magazine deals with generic stereotypical material, maybe. But anything a little deeper and more community-based, forget it. Besides, isn’t it kind of insulting and discriminatory to hire a straight man to edit a gay periodical, as if no gay man could do a decent job (or would necessarily be hired for a straight lifestyle publication if he was openly gay?)