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Photography by Anthony DiCapua

Headmaster launches Issue No.6

The Rhode Island-based zine serves up erotica, art and photo essays

By Eric Torres

According to legend (aka Wikipedia), the National PTA established Teacher Appreciation Week almost thirty years ago. For most, this week means giving your favorite teacher/professor/what-have-you some semblance of thanks: a card, that requisite red apple, perhaps a present. For others, like the talent behind Providence-based queer-art mag Headmaster magazine, it means something a little more suitably suggestive. To celebrate the launch of Headmaster’s latest issue, the crew is hosting a Teacher Appreciation Week reception tonight at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. We were able to take a peek at the sixth issue, and you should trust us when we say this is something you’re definitely gonna want to get your hands on.

Headmaster takes on a unique format for an art zine, in which the editor (the eponymous Headmaster) tasks each contributor with a homework assignment that they proceed to put their own spin on. For this issue, contributors include Matt Lambert (using the vision conditions myopia and hyperopia for a photographic series), Alexander Chee (crafting a smutty narrative based on Patrick Cowley’s School Daze), Anthony DiCapua (doing a photo study of Brighton Beach’s Russian roots), Matthias Herrmann (who also created the cover image), Luka Fisher, BarryMarré, Ian Cozzens and many more, all of whom turn out fantastic work that would probably make the majority of your actual schoolteachers blush. Headmaster will also be selling handsomely packaged, deluxe six-packs at Leslie-Lohman that include all past issues for a discounted price.

Go and pick up your own copy of the magazine tonight so you can read it while fondly remembering that one hot teacher you fantasized about hooking up with during high school or college. Who knows, maybe you’ll get lucky and see him there tonight.

Anthony DiCapua