Meet the Gay Publisher Behind 'Playgirl Magazine's Bold Relaunch
Meet the Gay Publisher Behind 'Playgirl Magazine's Bold Relaunch When Los Angeles nightclub owner Douglas Lambert and editor Marin Scott Milam teamed up to launch Playgirl’s first issue in 1973, no one could have anticipated the public response. At the height of the feminist movement, when print titles continued to objectify women’s bodies against the backdrop of a growing revolution, Playgirl offered a different perspective. The magazine welcomed the notion that women, in fact, could be authoritative voices on sex, culture, and their own existence. At its peak in the mid-to-late ’70s...