This volume collects the best texts from Destroyer and The Lover.

Released in May 2025.
304 pages, no illustrations.
ISBN 9789189865242

Description

For over a decade, Karl Andersson self-published Destroyer and The Lover. With their mix of radical sexual politics and in-your-face layout, the magazines made headlines in mainstream and queer press alike, and had an impact that far surpassed their relatively small readership.

Real Journalism contains 57 articles from these obscure and hard-to-get magazines, originally published between 2006 and 2017. For the first time, a larger audience can see for themselves what all the fuss was about, and discover important, enraging, and entertaining articles that with their unique angle wouldn’t or couldn’t be published anywhere else.

The articles in this book are both an insider’s indictment of the contemporary LGBTQ+ movement and the society it is embedded in, and a call to action directed at independent minds, real journalists – and maybe yourself.

The book does not contain any photos or illustrations, but spare copies of the original magazines can be obtained in our store.

Currently not available as a download, but might be in the future.

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Signed by the author

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Real Journalism: Self-Published Writings on Sexual Politics, History and Culture