A recent issue of gay monthly Out pondered whether or not we live in a post-gay world. In that issue, which featured sexually ambiguous Mika on the cover, editor Aaron Hicklin lamented the gentrification of formerly gay ghettos like Fire Island's pines:

It would be a horrible irony if the communities and beach resorts that once subverted society's mores and pieties ended up feeling as privileged and alienating as the culture they were reacting against.

From there, the issue as a whole examined the relevance of sexuality in a fairly gay friendly popular culture. Do we need to be here and queer? The answered seemed to be no. In our discussion of that issue, we wrote, "Gay may not be the war cry it once was; in fact, there may be no war cry." Sexuality in America seems to be more malleable, hence a post-gay world.

New Genre EIC Neal Boulton unabashedly borrows Hicklin's idea in his editorial for the revamped glossy.

Labels aside, like any American, I like what Americans like. I like a hot car…I want to have a hot body… and I want a walk-in closet full of hot clothes… And sex. Can anyone really ever get enough? Sorta sounds like everyone else on the planet, doesn't it?

Boulton goes on to chide unnamed men's magazines that cater to gays, but refuse to acknowledge their queer readers. He concludes:

…A lot of these magazines just need to come out. Until then there is Genre, the new magazines for every man - proud of being gay. The magazine for the American - who isn't ashamed of anything - G, L, B, or T.

Gentlemen mark your calendars and join me in ringing in a post gay America.

Boulton's proclamation may come three months after Hicklin's, but the idea remains the same: American gays have entered a new era. The men and their magazines, however, have very different opinions on that era's landscape.

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• If NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg isn't running for president, what's with Mike2008.com?

• How did former Men's Fitness editor Neal Boulton boot Genre's Chris Ciompi? He called David Unger and asked for the job.

• To-do on August 4th: stop homophobia in Poland.

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More HX-related drama. Genre's EIC Chris Ciompi got sacked today and will be replaced by former Men's Fitness editor Neal Boulton.

So, what's the HX connection? Window Media owns both fag rags and, from what we hear, plans on moving the monthly into the weekly's 17th street digs. From a reader - who, no, doesn't work at either Genre or HX, for whom our handsome editor once toiled:

Genre is declaring bankruptcy so they don't have to pay the back rent they owe for their offices and are moving into HX - perhaps the reason four HX staffers were fired.

Now we know what "restructuring" means.

The same source also had some less-than-kind words for Window honcho David Unger:

David Unger is next to impossible to work with. He squanders every bit of good will that has ever been put forth to Genre with his abrasive and condescending attitude. A very rich man who isn’t very smart or likable.

We'd comment on that, but we're afraid Unger will roll over us in his Rolls Royce.